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There are two sources available for the Quaker burials in the Freeport, Ohio Greenmont Union Cemetery. The latest burial recorded in her publication for this section is 1966. Both record sources can be examined (including the names) in Alice Hayhurst Morton’s “Freeport Township Cemeteries, Harrison County, Ohio."
Source 1 marks the year of each burial as recorded in the Flushing Monthly Meeting Records for Freeport, Ohio and were located in the Greenmont Quaker Section 2. (a) Two early burials were Isaac and Elizabeth Cadwallader, who no doubt owned the property and lived there. (b) All the rest were buried in 1820 or later, which matches the second meeting house built in 1817. One document states they were using the new meeting house in 1819.49 Quaker minutes state it was first used in 1820. The sale of the 2.5 acres was dated Dec 21, 1820. As often happens, use of a building is not unusual before final papers are drawn.
Source 2 marks the year of each burial in the Greenmont Union Cemetery, Section 2 called “Old Quaker Cemetery.” This list was compiled by Mrs. Morton. She told me her project had taken her to the cemetery to record all the markers that could be read. Again, we see two very early burials which undoubtedly occurred while still the original private property:
(1) Unnamed [Clark?], died May 1, 1805, age 19 years, 6 months, 8 days; (2) Sarah Green, daughter of Samuel and Ann Green, age 6 years, died 1811. On the old 1875 plat map, we see the owners of property in this area are Mr. Clark and Mr. Green, which matches the names of those two burials. It is appropriate that these two burials happened to be included in the December 21, 1820 land sale. The remainder on this list starts in 1838.
Mrs. Morton, in her cemetery publication made a note for the burials in Source 2 that “many of the graves had no stones and the older ones are hard to read.” We don’t know why there were grave stones in a Quaker cemetery, but in the mid 1800s and later, the changes occurring in our social history would include changes, also, in the manner of burials for this society. It has also been suggested that as people were leaving the Society for more ‘personal freedom’ they began to erect memorial stones for earlier ancestors.
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