Carthage Friends Cemetery
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Carthage Friends Cemetery

Also known as Friends Cemetery

Carthage, Rush County, Indiana, USA

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    Carthage, Indiana 46115 United States
    Coordinates: 39.73569, -85.57415
  • Cemetery ID: 2277646

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Carthage Monthly Meeting was set off from Walnut Ridge Monthly Meeting and first held Eighth Month 4, 1866. The meetinghouse is located at the south edge of the village of Carthage. The monthly meeting originally consisted of two preparatives, Carthage and Little Blue River. The latter was set off as a monthly meeting in 1884. When Carthage Meeting was established in 1839, some Friends thought that the meetinghouse should be near the school, which was southeast of the present town. John Clark, a Friend and one of the founders of Carthage, took aside the clerk of the committee that was to recommend a site and offered to donate a lot in town. Whether Friend Clark had in mind the convenience of Friends or the value of his other town lots history does not record, but the meeting accepted his offer. A large brick meetinghouse built in 1881 and the burying ground are still at this location. This record was made in 1939 and is now part of the Willard Heiss Collection in the Friends Collection at Earlham College. Later burials have been added. Although most of those buried here were Quakers, a few had no connection with Friends, so inclusion is not in itself proof of membership.
Carthage Monthly Meeting was set off from Walnut Ridge Monthly Meeting and first held Eighth Month 4, 1866. The meetinghouse is located at the south edge of the village of Carthage. The monthly meeting originally consisted of two preparatives, Carthage and Little Blue River. The latter was set off as a monthly meeting in 1884. When Carthage Meeting was established in 1839, some Friends thought that the meetinghouse should be near the school, which was southeast of the present town. John Clark, a Friend and one of the founders of Carthage, took aside the clerk of the committee that was to recommend a site and offered to donate a lot in town. Whether Friend Clark had in mind the convenience of Friends or the value of his other town lots history does not record, but the meeting accepted his offer. A large brick meetinghouse built in 1881 and the burying ground are still at this location. This record was made in 1939 and is now part of the Willard Heiss Collection in the Friends Collection at Earlham College. Later burials have been added. Although most of those buried here were Quakers, a few had no connection with Friends, so inclusion is not in itself proof of membership.

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  • Added: 27 Sep 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2277646