Some Items of Interest:

• Union Cemetery is in the southeast quarter of Section 32, Township 07, Range 05 in Newton Township, Miami County, Ohio. The early meeting houses and adjoining cemetery were built on five acres of land previously owned by Marmaduke Coate and his wife Mary (Coppock) Coate. The land was conveyed to the Union Meeting Trustees on July 3, 1811. The text of the conveyance on record in Book 1, Page 97 at the Miami County Recorder's office is as follows:

  "State of Ohio, Miami County } Know all men by these presents that we Marmaduke Coat and Mary Coate wife of said Marmaduke Coate of Newton Township in in the county and State aforesaid in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars to us in hand paid by Samuel Teague and Joseph Furnas of the same place on behalf and for the use and benefit, of the Society of Friends in said county have Granted, Sold, and Released unto the said Samuel Teague and Joseph Furnas for the particular use and benefit of the members of the Meeting of Friends held on the South side of the S? W? Branch of the Great Miami in the Towns -hip aforesaid a certain Lot or Tract of Land containing five Acres more or less Situate lying and being in the county aforesaid beginning at a Stake in the River bottom on ? the East side of S? ?? Quarter of Section ??? Thirty Two of Township No Seven in Range no five runing south Thirty Two Rods to a Stake Thence West Twenty five Rod to a Sugar Tree Thence North Thirty Two Rod to a Stake Thence East Twenty five Rod to the begining corner. Originally Granted to the aforesaid Marmaduke Coat by Letters made patent at the city of Washington bearing Date the first Day of February One Thousand Eight Hun -dred and Nine Together with all and Singular the Right and Members Hereditaments and Appurtenances to the Said premises belonging or in anywise Incident or appertaini -ng to have and to hold all and Singular the premises before mentioned unto the Said Samuel Teague and joseph Furnas and Such other Friends as Shall be appoin -ted From time to time or at any time by the members of Said Meeting Forever for the particular purpose use and benefit of the members of Said Meeting for accommo- dating them with Land For their meeting House Buryin -g Grounds Horse Yard ?? and we do hereby bind ourselves our Heirs Executors and administrators to warrant and Forever defend all and Singular the said premises unto the Said Samuel Teague and jospeh Furnas and Such other friends as Shall be appointed from time to time by Said meeting as occa- sion may require for the purposes above mentioned against our Selves our Heirs and against any other person or persons Lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof Witness our hands and Seals this Twenty Third Day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Eleven and Thirty Sixth Year of the Independence of the United States of America.

  Signed Sealed and Delivered}
  in the presence of}
  William Furnas
  Rebekah Teague ??
  

  Marmaduke Coate SEAL
  Mary x (her mark) Coate SEAL"

  
  
• William Wade Hinshaw, Thomas Worth Marshall, Dr. Harlow Lindley and others collaborated on the American Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, which indexed hundreds of thousands of Quaker records. Records germane to Union Cemetery were extracted from Ancestry.com, and are presented here in edited form via the links below:
  • Volume 4 Introductory Pages
  • Volume 5 Introductory Pages
  • Records
  • Records Index

  From Hinshaw: "Union Monthly Meeting was set off from West Branch Monthly Meeting 1 Mo. 2, 1813. John Coate and Esther Pearson were clerks, William Elleman was treasurer, and Benjamin Pearson, recorder. Samuel Teague and Rebecca Teague were elders and Benjamin Coppock, Samuel Coate, Anne Coppock, and Luraneh Coate were overseers. Other names were Hollingsworth, Iddings, Hasket, Miles, Pemberton, Peirce, and Embree."

• A brief aerial video of the cemetery photographed with UAV on August 23, 2016.

Although Union Cemetery generally has orderly rows oriented north-south with headstones facing west, some markers appear to be placed randomly and are not clearly associated with any particular row. The photographs below are grouped based on the clearly visible rows as observed during photography, and they sometimes encompass nearby headstones that are not obviously associated with any particular row. Generally speaking, photography began in the northeast corner of the cemetery and proceeded to the southwest corner. Hence, Row 1 is in or near the northeast corner of the cemetery and the final row, 57, ends with the markers in or near the southwest corner of the cemetery.