Lebanon Cemetery Shaker Burial Lot

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Lebanon Cemetery
Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio
Section C, Lot 99, 100, 147, 148
The Shaker Lot

Twenty-four persons signed the Petition to Close Union Village before it was sold to United Brethren Church. Following are the names of sixteen of those Shakers who were buried in Lebanon Cemetery, because there was no longer any "Shaker Land" available for their burial. Others of the 24 went to Canterbury, or scattered elsewhere. The ownership of the plot is listed as "Shakers, Arthur Bruce Trustee." The place of death on the individual records is listed, variously, as "Shaker Village, Ohio," "Lebanon, Ohio," "Shakertown, Ohio," and "Union Village, Ohio." In all cases, the undertaker is designated as "Oswalds."

also see Union Village and the Shakers of Warren County, Ohio for additional Shaker information that can be found on the Warren County OHGenWeb and elsewhere.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ [no surname] [Lebanon Cemetery Home]

Photographic Records. [Click on the thumbnail images for larger photos]
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	The large SHAKER monument (1805-1920 ) is in the center of a large grassy plot. Lebanon Cemetery records (coordinated with other sources) document that at least sixteen Shakers are buried in Section C, Lots 99, 100, 147 and 148, although portions of 147 and 148 were owned by someone other than the Shakers.
	It was not the practice of the Union Village Shakers to put gravestones on individual graves, instead they often planted cedar trees to mark the spot a person was buried. The single evergreen bush seen in this photograph may have been planted with that in mind.
	Well hidden by the low limbs of the evergreen bush is the only single gravestone on the Shaker Lot: that of James H. Fennessey (1853-1928) the last Union Village Shaker in Warren County. [click here to see obituary]
	Others buried there: Bush, Cornelius - 1832/1916 [interment #4165 in Lot 147-3 on 25 Nov 1916] - see obituary Divine (Devine), Leander A. - 1830/1917 [interment #4175 in Lot 147-2 on 10 Jan 1917] Fennessey (Fennessy), James H. - 1853/1928 [interment #5148 in Lot 147-4 on 13 Sep 1928] - see obituary Frost, Hester Elizabeth - 1827-1911 [interment #3981 in Lot 99-1 on 17 Sep 1911]- see obituary Goetz, John - 1827/1912 [interment #3780 in Lot 100-1 on 19 Aug 1912] Hunt, George - 1836/1913 [interment #3899 in Lot 100-3 on 1 Jan 1913 - see obituary] Jameson, Eliza M. - 1825-1920 [interment #4471 in Lot 148-2 on 21 Jan 1920 -see obituary] Kripe, Sarah A. - 1837-1913 [interment #3838 in Lot 100-4 on 24 Aug 1913] Liddell (Liddill, Liddle), Sue A. (Susan Anna C.) - 1824/1914 [interment #3928 in Lot 148-7 on 7 Mar 1914 -see obituary] Mann, Thomas - 1828/1911 [interment #3991 in Lot 99-2 on 1 Dec 1911] McBride, Mary Alice (Mollie) - 1832/1919 [interment #4399 in Lot 147-1 on 13 May 1919 - see obituary] Meyers, Julius - 1832/1911 [interment #3997 in Lot 99-7 on 11 Dec 1911] - see obituary Miner, Clymenia (Clymena) - 1832/1916 [interment #4118 in Lot 148-6 on 22 May 1916 - see obituary] Myers, Anna M. - 1830/1913 [interment #3849 in Lot 100-2 on 26 May 1913] Oescheger (Osker, Oescher) Lorenz (Lawrence) - 1837/1912 [interment #3766 in Lot 99-6 on 28 Jun 1912] - see obituary Roye (Roy, Raye), Mary Ann - 1834/1919 [interment #4428 in Lot 148-2 on 17 Dec 1919] - see obituary
	Also, GOEPPER, LEOPOLD - 1827/1915 - These dates are taken from his death certificate. The Lebanon Cemetery records do not show that he was buried there. However, other records say that he was "cremated in Cincinnati, buried in Lebanon."

Photos and text contributed by Katherine Lollar Rowland on 27 July 2004

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