Union Baptist Cemetery

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 1 contributing buildings. The cemetery is the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati, founded in 1864 by members of the Union Baptist Church.

Union Baptist Cemetery
Overview of the cemetery
LocationCincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates39°7′0″N 84°36′10″W
Area160 acres (0.65 km2)
NRHP reference No.02001057[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 20, 2002[1]

Among those interred is Powhatan Beaty, a Medal of Honor recipient and American Civil War veteran of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment.[2] Almost 150 other USCT veterans are buried at Union Baptist Cemetery.

Other well-known Cincinnatians interred include David Leroy Nickens, first minister of the Union Baptist Church, Hon. George W. Hayes, Jennie Porter, founder of the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Edith Hern Fossett, enslaved cook for Thomas Jefferson at President's House (White House) and head cook at Monticello and her husband, Joseph Fossett, are buried at Union Baptist Church cemetery.[3]

Notes
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. June 30, 2007.
  2. Grace, Kevin; Tom White (2004). Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground. Arcadia Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 0-7385-3348-3.
  3. "Edith Hern Fossett". www.monticello.org. Retrieved January 20, 2020.


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