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Berea Cemetery Association (Berea, Ky.)

 Organization

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Berea Cemetery Association Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0170 HC 66
Abstract After agitating the question of the need to organize a cemetery association and holding preliminary meetings led by Reverend E. H. Fairchild and A.A. Wright, the Berea community organized the Berea Cemetery Association in 1872.  The preliminary meetings resulted in the adoption of a constitution, the enrollment of nearly thirty subscribers to the Constitution, and an initiation fee for membership of $2.00.  The first election under the Constitution was held in the Fall of 1872 and resulted...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1872-1996