Disownment did not mean banishment. Disowned individuals were not allowed to attend/participate the business sessions, but otherwise allowed to continue to participate in the Quaker community. Disowned or Non-Quakers could be buried in most Quaker burial grounds as long as their survivors agreed to the rules concerning headstones and funerals, but these burials usually were not recorded. > From: barbarademare@yahoo.com > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:31:12 +0300 > To: mosesm@earthlink.net > CC: quaker-roots@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker Burial > > My non-Quaker grandparents are buried in a Quaker Cemetery > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 29, 2013, at 4:48 AM, marsha moses <mosesm@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > I think that if one thinks about it with a cool head and logic, you KNOW that there are non-quakers buried in the quaker burial grounds. Sharon's example is a good one: > > > >> My grandmother's uncle, Joseph Jinnett, was buried at Pilot Grove, Vermilion Co., Illinois when he died from a wound suffered during the Civil War. He had been disowned, but was buried there nevertheless. > > > > Who is going to tell that distraught mother that she can not bury her son in the same cemetery as her mother...her father... her grandmother....fill in the blank... > > > > I can not prove that my 5-gr-grandmother, Sarah Moore McKinsey, was buried in the Bush River Cemetery. It gives me a great deal of comfort to think that indeed her family buried her near Nehemiah Thomas and probably a few children who had been buried there ....before the family moved to Ohio. The family was no longer Quaker....I know this for sure because a daughter-in-law was dis for marrying a McKinsey son. But I believe that the family had been Quaker in an earlier generation. And that it is possible that they were still attending ...don't know....but when I think about burying my own, I think about how I would want them to be among family. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUAKER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message