Hello everyone, I have a private family cemetery that is here in Richmond, Wayne Co., IN. Although it is not actually a Quaker Cemetery. When it was set aside as a cemetery in the early 1800's the Bulla's and the Hoover's gave the land for the cemetery. Both families were Quaker. The cemetery is still an active cemetery. To be buried there you go to the trustee dept of a local bank, show proof you are related to one or the other family, and choose from there plate map where you want to be buried. There is no charge for the burial plot. Most of those that have been buried in the cemetery have donated money to the trust fund. Thanks, Dave In a message dated 5/29/2013 9:10:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sethhinshaw@yahoo.com writes: 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