Entrance to Union Baptist Cemetery
Cemetery Map and Index – compiled by Bill P. Currie and Dorothy Currie, and edited by Neil Gallagher
Map Index Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
Note: Map and Map Index pages provided to me on 03
Nov 2009 by Jim Michels jmichels@wabash.net
00252 – George W. Heap
00253 - Elizabeth (Sanders) Heap
Footstone with back of Headstone
Headstone Close-Up to Decipher Text 2 3 4 5 6 7
Text Reads: “We laid her to rest in the quiet tomb
with the flowers she had loved so well”
Some more information on the
Cemetery and the church that was there:
(
Union Church was organized
November 7, 1827, at the home of Brother Richard
members were as follows, viz.,
Richard Gardner, Polly Marshall, Mason
Marshall, Sarah Morehouse,
Lewis Cheek, Mary Bullard, Briant Bullard,
Elizabeth Cheek, Elizabeth
Blanchard, Thaddeus Morehouse, Elizabeth Bullard,
Benjamin Coats,
Bogard, Lois Bullard, John
Bullard, Sarah Bunch, William Cheek, Martha
Gardner,
Elijah Gibbs, and Nancy Blackmon. The presbytery was composed of
Elders Daniel Parker,
William Martin, and Elias Roberts, and other Brethren,
Coles
Beasley, Asa Hammon,
William Herron,
A hewn log meeting house with
dimensions of 24 by 30 feet was built in 1832
on one acre of land owned by
Brother Richard Gardner. In 1848 a committee
was appointed to fix the
meeting house, including finishing said house if
they can get sufficient funds.
Pastors included Elders William
Martin, Richard Gardner, Benjamin Coats, and
William Trainer.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Ashcraft, Barnet, Blackman,
Blanchard, Bogard, Bullard, Bunch,
Chauncy, Cheek, Coats, Cottrell,
Hall,
Nelson, Nicholson, Nonn, Pearson, Phillips, Pierce, Prolins,
Randall, Reeds,
Richards, Ring, Ryan,
Sawyer, Shipley, Snyder, Stewart, Studaville, Sumner,
Terry, Thompson, Trainer, Umfleet, Utterback, Wilson.
This from
http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/FamHist-Richland.html
if you email the webmaster of
that site, he has the closing date for the
church. They abandoned the church
and many members moved away to another
area. Closing was around 1850.
The Heaps intermarried the Gardener family
and that is the only reason
that I can give for the burials there. As you
know, most of the rest are in
Haven Hill with a few in
one child in
Jim Michels
