Union Baptist Cemetery
Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.[1] Almost 150 other USCT veterans are buried at Union Baptist Cemetery.[1]
Notable burials
- Newt Allen, a Negro league baseball player[2]
- Powhatan Beaty, a Medal of Honor recipient and American Civil War veteran of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment.[3]
- Bishop Mary Beck Bell, founder of the Spiritualist Church of the Soul[2]
- Tiny Bradshaw, musician [2]
- Edith Hern Fossett, enslaved cook for Thomas Jefferson at President's House (White House) and head cook at Monticello[4]
- Hon. George W. Hayes
- David Leroy Nickens[2]
- Consuelo Clark-Stewart[2]
- Jennie Porter, founder of the Harriet Beecher Stowe School
- Wallace "Bud" Smith, boxer[2]
Notes
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- Cemeteries in Cincinnati
- Historic districts in Cincinnati
- African-American history in Cincinnati
- Baptist cemeteries in the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Cincinnati
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- Cemeteries established in the 1860s
- 1864 establishments in Ohio
- African-American cemeteries in Ohio