Anti-Slavery
Friends Cemetery (49), Westfield, Washington Township,
Hamilton Co, Indiana
One
of our ongoing preservations efforts focuses on restoring
broken and dirty grave markers in the Anti-Slavery Friends
Cemetery in the center of Westfield. Here a list of
burials
and the date of the stone cleaning and pictures of some
of the stones.
Last
Updated: 10/24/2007
Click
here for Work Day notes
Source: http://home.att.net/~sharcraig/cem.htm
Quote from website:
Anti-Slavery Cemetery
(aka Wesleyan)
Washington Township
Westfield
The land was owned first by Asa Bales,
who died in 1845 and was buried in this cemetery. Three
years later the county court awarded a deed to the Westfield
Monthly Meeting of Anti-slavery Friends. In 1854 this
group was discontinued, and the Wesleyan church bought
the lot and the Friends meeting house.
In 1949 Phoebe Jeffers' list of gravestones
was given to the Indiana Historical Society. In 1970 the
Westfield Junior Chamber of Commerce removed all the gravestones
that could be moved by hand. No record of their original
location was kept. When the cemetery commission was formed
in 1975, their first project was to return these stones.
Because no record was available (they were unaware of
the lists by Phoebe Jeffers and Nellie Evans), and some
stones were difficult to read, the markers were set in
more or less random order. Abbreviations:
h/ -- husband of
w/ -- wife of
s/ -- son of
d/ -- daughter of
