North Union Shaker Cemetery (Southeast View), 1898
Baus caption: Southeast View of Cemetery. 1898
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North Union Shaker Cemetery (Southeast View), 1898Entry/Object ID
082.1931 Bau.38Tags
North Union Shakers, Warrensville Township, 19th Century, 1890s, Boulevard Neighborhood, Shaker HeightsDescription
Plate 38 from from Shakers & Kirtland by Louis Baus showing the northwest section of the North Union Shaker cemetery along the lane that became South Park Boulevard. Baus description: "The burial ground was located in the northwest corner of the orchard west of the Center Family buildings; or at the first bend of South Park Blvd. west of Lee Rd. of today. The space was 80 ft. square, surrounded by pine trees. On the east and south exterior was an avenue of 35 feet, hemmed in by a row of mulberry trees, the leaves of which were used for silkworms. The burial plat was divided in four sections by two avenues, ten feet wide, running north and south, and east and west. The females were buried on the north and the males on the south side. They commenced the interments on the extreme west end. The headstones were all of sandstone but one, and this of marble, was erected by the daughters of Lydia Russell in her memory in 1839. With but few exceptions the only insciptions [sic] on the stones were the initials of the name. Records were kept of all the deaths and burials in a book. The records reveal there were 138 deaths in the colony; the first that of Benj. Jenks, Oct. 4, 1827; and the last, Lisette Walker, Sept. 19, 1888. About 1905 all the remains were gathered from the cemetery, placed in rough boxes and buried in a common grave in the old Warrensville cemetery, on Lee Rd, between Moreland Blvd. and Kinsman Rd. with no sign or marker to mark the site."Photograph Details
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