Union Baptist Cemetery
Union Baptist Cemetery | |
 Overview of the cemetery | |
  Location within Ohio  Location within the United States | |
| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 39°7′0″N 84°36′10″W / 39.11667°N 84.60278°W |
| Area | 160 acres (0.65 km2) |
| NRHP reference No. | 02001057 |
| Added to NRHP | September 20, 2002 |
Union Baptist Cemetery located at 4933 Cleves Warsaw Pike, in the Price Hill neighborhood, is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2002. It contains a single contributing building. The cemetery is the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati.
History
The cemetery was established by the Union Baptist Church in 1864 by members of the Union Baptist Church. Almost 150 other USCT veterans are buried at Union Baptist Cemetery.
Notable burials
- Newt Allen, Negro league baseball player
- Powhatan Beaty (1837–1916), American Civil War veteran of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment; a Medal of Honor recipient
- Mary Beck Bell, bishop, founder of the Spiritualist Church of the Soul
- Tiny Bradshaw (1907–1958), musician
- Edith Hern Fossett (1787–1854), enslaved cook for Thomas Jefferson at the White House, and head cook at Monticello
- George W. Hayes (1847–1933), Ohio state legislator
- David Leroy Nickens
- Consuelo Clark-Stewart
- Jennie Porter, founder of the Harriet Beecher Stowe School
- Wallace "Bud" Smith, boxer
Notes
- 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. June 30, 2007.
- ↑ "Union Baptist Cemetery". Archived from the original on June 9, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hanlin, Chris. "Union Baptist Cemetery Tour". Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
- ↑ Grace, Kevin; Tom White (2004). Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground. Arcadia Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 0-7385-3348-3.
- ↑ "Edith Hern Fossett". www.monticello.org. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
- ↑ "African-American Legislators". georgewashingtonwilliams.org. Archived from the original on October 10, 2007. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
