Aimed to send to the list so forwarding. Jean Leeper grannyroots@iowatelecom.net Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: grannyroots <grannyroots@iowatelecom.net> > Date: May 29, 2013, 9:07:10 AM EDT > To: Thomas Hamm <tomh@earlham.edu> > Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker burials---questions > > Salem Iowa Quakers at first in the 1830-1850s buried in order of death, some with no stones and some with simple stones. At Cedar Creek Friends Cemetery, near Salem, as far as our records go back ca 1900 we have sold lots and buried anyone in the neighborhood. In 1906 when we enlarged the cemetery both members and non members were asked to give money by subscription. Many have some ties back to the Quakers. Records lost per 1900 but first burial in 1841. > > Jean Leeper > grannyroots@iowatelecom.net > Sent from my iPad > > > On May 29, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Thomas Hamm <tomh@earlham.edu> wrote: > >> Here in Indiana at least some Friends burial places sell plots. Fall Creek, near Pendleton, is one. The proceeds of the sales are used for upkeep. >> >> Fall Creek has two sections--the original burial ground, which dates to the 1830s, and a newer section laid out about 1900. When my wife and I bought plots there, we were told that if we wanted to be buried in the old graveyard the plots were $5 apiece. They are more expensive in the new section. >> >> Tom Hamm >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Seth Hinshaw" <sethhinshaw@yahoo.com> >> To: KTompk7744@aol.com, mosesm@earthlink.net, quaker-roots@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:08:36 AM >> Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker burials---questions >> >> Jan - I have never heard of a Friends meeting selling burial plots. I know of one instance where a burial ground was full, and someone (a non-member) purchased an adjacent parcel of land and donated it so that he could be buried there. >> >> In Ohio Yearly Meeting, we mostly retain the process of burying people in the next available location. However, in several instances in North Carolina YM (FUM), the local meeting has plotted out the burial ground to allow families members to be buried together. >> >> Seth >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: "KTompk7744@aol.com" <KTompk7744@aol.com> >> To: mosesm@earthlink.net; quaker-roots@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 7:41 AM >> Subject: [Q-R] Quaker burials---questions >> >> >> Now you folks have got me thinking about cemetery plots. I don't know >> how the Quakers handle such things, but the cemeteries I'm familiar with SELL >> the individual gravesites to folks. Thus the individual gravesites are >> owned (sooner or later) by individuals. And the cemetery wouldn't be able >> to refuse to allow a burial unless it was an extraordinary situation. >> >> Maybe the Quakers were above such mundane commerce, but my cemetery plot >> consists of two side-by-side lots in the Bethel Baptist Church cemetery, for >> which I paid a very reasonable sum, and I have a letter of title showing >> which two lots they are. The cemetery association, related to the church, >> didn't ask if I were a member or if anybody in the family was. >> Theoretically I could have bought four or five plots in a certain spot. >> >> It might be interesting to know whether burial sites for the Quakers were >> free and whether you got to reserve a specific location for your family. >> >> JanT >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> In a message dated 5/28/2013 8:54:01 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >> mosesm@earthlink.net writes: >> >> 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 >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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