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Friends
Burial Ground [New Sign added in
2007]
In 1804, Miami Monthly Meeting purchased this land to use as a graveyard.
Burials were made without regard to status or family association, but
rather by date of death. Some of the earliest graves are marked with
a plain rock obtained from a nearby creek while later markers are typically
small limestone headstones, often carved with only the individuals'
names (sometimes only initials) and date of death. There is also a Revolutionary
War soldier buried here, showing that the early Friends were tolerant
even while maintaining the peace testimony.
When the two meetings separated in 1828, the graveyard was also divided.
The sugar maple in the middle of the cemetery is on the line that goes
from the street through the tree to the edge of the property. The portion
between this line and the Red Brick belongs to the Wilmington Yearly
Meeting, while the western portion belongs to Miami Monthly Meeting.
The Hicksites began burials in 1832.
John Satterthewaite,
builder of many of Waynesville's early buildings is buried in the Hicksite
side, and Abijah O'Neall,
the first Quaker to come to Waynesville is buried in the Orthodox side.
[The rest of the sign contains a lists of the names
and dates of those buried by row and grave number]
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By
Diana
Linkous
25 September 2007 |
