Friends Cemetery of the Springborough Quaker Meeting
Members of the Religious Society of Friends were instrumental in the founding and development of early Springboro.
This plat contains the remains of Springboro founder Jonathan Wright (1782-1855) a Quaker leader who donated part of his land holding to his meeting for this cemetery.
Also buried here are other members of the Wright family including Jonathan's father, Joel, who platted Louisville, KY, and Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. Other burials include Revolutionary War veteran John Mullen, pioneer orchard magnate Jesse Wilson and several African-Americans, who had no burial site of their own.
The Friends Meeting House of Springborough once stood inside of the front gate.
After the Springborough Meeting was laid down, the plot was maintained by the Miami Monthly Meeting in Waynesville until 1996, when the cemetery was deeded to the City of Springboro.

• Springboro Ohio: south side of Factory Road, 1/2 block west of Main Street (State Route 741)
• "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003" by the Ohio Genealogical Society , Cemetery #12202 [Hicksite Quaker Cemetery]
• Coordinates: 39° 33' 6.84" N, 84° 14' 4.22" W
• TRS: Range 5 North, Township 2 East, Section 13

• Springboro Orthodox Quaker Cemetery
• USGS GNIS - Not included
• Google Map at coordinates 39° 33' 6.84" N, 84° 14' 4.22" W
• Warren County Auditor for Property Account # 520195, Parcel ID 04134270030 - City of Springboro - Original Plat, Lot No. 42
• Quaker Resources compiled by Thomas C. Hill
  • Springboro (FGS) Meeting at QuakerMeetings.com
  • Property of Meetings in Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting (pdf file) at Area Quaker History Online Resources on the Wilmington College, Watson Library Website
    See #53 on pages 35-36. The cemetery is at Location 1.
• Village of Springboro from Warner's 1867 Warren County Ohio Wall Map.
  [Note that the Friends Church is shown on a lot on the south side of West State Street. Early maps of Springboro have the State Street and Factory Road street names reversed from what is found on modern maps]
• Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. V: (Ohio Monthly Meetings) pages 965-979d on Ancestry.com which begins with
  "Springborough Monthly Meeting, located in Warren county, was established by Miami Quarterly Meeting and composed of Springborough and Sugar Creek Preparative Meetings on 9 Mo. 28, 1824. The meeting was seriously divided at the time of the Hicksite Separation. The monthly meeting was discontinued in 1875, and merged with Miami Monthly Meeting. Jonathan Wright and Deborah Batemen were clerks, Mary Kenworthy and Elizabeth Miller, overseers, and Mary Taylor an elder. Other families wer Garretson, Webster, Horner, Williams, Way, Chandler, Wilson, Haines, Leeds, O'Neal, Stanton, Kenworthy, Jones, Taylor and Mitler."

• D.A.R. Turtlecreek Chapter & Warren County Historical Society (available at the Historical Society Library)
  • Early Vital Records Volume 4, pages 77-78
  • Early Vital Records Volume 10, pages 81
• Warren County Genealogical Society
  • Not included in the current cemetery volumes - See Hicksite Quaker Web Page
  • Our thanks to Warren County Genealogical Society volunteer, Dana Palmer, who has photographed all extant gravestones for the Warren County Virtual Cemetery Project during visits on 22 Apr 2005 & 7 May 2011. Photos of all extant gravestones have been added to this website. These efforts will be incorporated into the new cemetery books planned by the society.
• Other Known Transcriptions
  • Our thanks to Terry Easton who has contributed a list 195 Burials arranged by Row and Grave which was compiled by Emma Jane Null and others in 1977.

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