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Union Baptist Cemetery

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Location
  
Cincinnati, Ohio

Address
  
Cincinnati, OH 45238, USA

Added to NRHP
  
20 September 2002

NRHP Reference #
  
02001057

Area
  
65 ha

Union Baptist Cemetery

Burials
  
Powhatan Beaty, Paul M. Herbert

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Union Baptist Cemetery located at 4933 Cleves Warsaw Pike, in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, 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.

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Among those interred is Powhatan Beaty, a Medal of Honor recipient and American Civil War veteran of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment. Almost 150 other USCT veterns are buried at Union Baptist Cemetery.[1]

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. [2]

Historic uses

  • Cemetery
  • References

    Union Baptist Cemetery Wikipedia