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Goshen Cemetery

GOSHEN CEMETERY was located in Lincoln Township, northwest of Ackworth in the late 1840s. The early burials of the present-day Ackworth neighborhood were made at Goshen Cemetery.

South River Meeting, the Society of Friends at Ackworth, was the parent-church for the Goshen Meeting House. The first minister at Goshen was Rodema, wife of Elias Newlin. Eventually, the Goshen Quakers joined the meetings at Ackworth and the Goshen Meeting ceased to exist. The cemetery was abandoned. The land was deeded to the parent-church, South River Monthly.

Pleasant Bond and Sally Bond, for the consideration of Love and Esteem, conveyed to the Society of Friends, Samuel Owens, Benjamin Hinshaw, and Elias Newlin as Trustees of the South River Monthly and to their successors, two acres of land. This is recorded in Plat Book 1 page 84, and was dated May 11, 1860.

Warren County Genealogical Society. Cemetery and death records of Warren County, Iowa. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1980.

Biography

Middle River Cemetery History

MIDDLE RIVER CEMETERY is in the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 14 of Palmyra Township. It is located one and one-half miles west and two and one-quarter miles north of Palmyra, Iowa.

The first to purchase land in Palmyra Township was John D. Parmalee who bought in Section 12 on August 1, 1848.

Members of the Society of Friends began meeting around Middle River as early as 1849. Some of these early pioneers were Thomas Rees and family, Robert Rees and family, Solomon Wright and family, A. Johnson and family, Charles Hinshaw and family and Elias and Rodema Newlin. A log cabin building was erected by members of the neighborhood and it was used for the school and the church.

Robert Linksly and Benjamin Seebohm, two Society of Friends Ministers, were headed west in a two-horse carriage, going to a Salem Friends meeting in southeast Iowa. On February 1, 1851, they headed on west to Three Rivers, This was the western-most edge of the Society of Friends on the continent.

The Middle River Society of Friends was organized in 1851. Original members were Charles Hinshaw and wife, Benjamin SMith and wife, John Hits and wife, Elias and Rodema Newlin, Jacob Moon and wife, Solomon and Susanna Wright, Rith Stanton and Hannah Horsman. The land for the first meeting house came from the farm of Solomon Wright.

The Meeting house was built in 1853. A parsonage was built in 1906 and the organ was installed in 1907. A new church building was dedicated on October 15, 1911.

Solomon and Susannah Wright of Warren County, for the sum of $40.00, conveyed to Benjamin Hinshaw, Samuel Owens and Elias Newlin, Trustees of the Friends Church and their successors, land thirty-six rods by twenty rods containing four acres more or less. This is recorded in Deed Book P on page 278. One of the oldest legible stones in the Middle River Cemetery marks the grave of one of Wright's family.

Warren County Genealogical Society. Cemetery and death records of Warren County, Iowa. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1980.

View records submitted to the Iowa Gravestone Photo Project for Middle River Cemetery.

Miscellaneous

Fire causing the loss of the house and its contents.

Biography

NEWLIN, ELIAS, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. Carlisle; was born in Clinton county, Ohio, in 1822; he lived there till about twelve years of age, then moved to Hendricks county, Indiana, with his parents, and remained till sixteen years of age; while there he married Miss Rodema Lewis, in 1843; they came to this county in the fall of 1850, and located where they now live; their homestead consists of 300 acres; in 1861, Mr. N. met with quite a loss from fire, his house and contents burned, making a loss of about $3,000; they have no family; Mrs. Newlin has been a great sufferer for about eight years, has not been out of the house for seven years, and most of the time has been confined to her bed; he is a stock holder in the Warren County Bank to the amount of $4,200.

Burial

Birth: Dec. 30, 1827
Death: Feb. 5, 1896

Rhodema was Elias Newlin's first wife. At the time of his marriage to Rhodema, Lydia Jane Moore (his future second wife) was a servant in the home.

Married 5-17-1843 to Elia Newlin.
Daughter of Abner and Rebecca Lewis of Mill Creek Monthly Meeting, Indiana.
Source: Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, by Willard Heiss, Volume 5, page 308 and 336. (submited by pjk999pjk)



Family links:
Spouse:
Elias Newlin (1822 - 1906)

Children:
Malinda Newlin (1848 - 1850)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Ackworth Cemetery
Warren County
Iowa, USA

Created by: Kathy Merris Mills
Record added: Jul 09, 2007
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