Longwood Cemetery: Reformers at Rest

Longwood Gardens names John Agnew among the documented Underground Railroad station agents buried at Longwood. Additional primary-source work is needed before assigning him to other reform movements or a specific Friends meeting.

Longwood Gardens names Lydia Agnew as a documented Underground Railroad station agent buried at Longwood. The entry remains intentionally limited because several Agnew family members were active in reform and identity must be established person by person.

Barnard was a Quaker minister, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad stationmaster. His farm became an important station, and his family aided freedom seekers. He also advocated women's equality and temperance and helped found the Longwood Progressive Friends.

Joanna Pennock Barnard and her husband Vincent S. Barnard were documented Quaker Underground Railroad stationmasters in Kennett Square. Joanna also represented the Chester County Temperance Society at the 1853 Whole World's Temperance Convention.

Sarah Marsh grew up in a family active in Underground Railroad work and personally guided freedom seekers. After marrying Eusebius Barnard in 1854, she continued this work from their Pocopson farm and was active in the Longwood Progressive Meeting.

The first wife of Eusebius Barnard, Sarah Painter Barnard participated in the family's anti-slavery and Underground Railroad work. Smedley described her as joining her husband in his religious and reformatory labors.

With her husband John, Hannah Cox made Longwood Farm a refuge and transport point for freedom seekers. Longwood Gardens documents her participation in abolition, women's rights, and temperance. Biographical accounts also document her work for peace, the abolition of capital punishment, and the broader advancement of women.

A farmer and carpenter at Longwood Farm, Cox was president of the Kennett Anti-Slavery Society and, with Hannah Cox, served as a delegate to anti-slavery conventions. Their farm sheltered and transported freedom seekers. He helped establish the Longwood Progressive Friends and the Longwood Cemetery.

Chandler Darlington and his wife Hannah were active in the Longwood reform community. Their home, The Pines, sheltered freedom seekers, and Chandler assisted the anti-slavery network by transporting people northward. He also supported temperance work and Longwood Progressive Friends.

Darlington was an abolitionist, Underground Railroad participant, women's-rights organizer, and temperance advocate. She helped organize the 1852 Pennsylvania Woman's Rights Convention at West Chester and appears in the Longwood reform community remembered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Longwood Gardens identifies Harlon Gause as a documented Underground Railroad station agent buried in Longwood Cemetery. His cemetery identity is retained here while additional biographical and meeting records are being checked.

Longwood Gardens identifies Rebecca Gause as one of the documented Underground Railroad station agents buried in Longwood Cemetery. Further research is needed before assigning additional reform categories or a specific Friends meeting.

Alice Eliza Hambleton and her husband Thomas aided freedom seekers. She also appears in anti-slavery reform activity connected with the rejection of products made by enslaved labor, a form of economic protest often called the free-produce movement.

Hambleton was an active anti-slavery farmer who assisted freedom seekers and for years refused goods produced by enslaved labor. His family history records his commitment to moral reform, temperance, and the Progressive Friends.

Hanway became nationally known after the 1851 Christiana Resistance. He was charged with treason after refusing to assist enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act and was acquitted. Longwood Gardens identifies him among the cemetery's active allies to freedom seekers.

Mary Ann Gause Jackson belonged to the early Longwood Progressive Friends reform community. Longwood archival records specifically preserve information about Mary Ann and her husband Caleb Sharpless Jackson among the founders and earliest members. The Jackson household was closely associated with anti-slavery reform.

Kent was a Chester County Quaker reformer who advocated suffrage, temperance, and peace. His papers also document interests in education and religion. He participated actively in Longwood Yearly Meetings and represents the later nineteenth-century continuation of the Longwood reform tradition.

Kirk was a Kennett Square businessman and civic figure who worked in the temperance movement, consistently supported Prohibition, and was described in family history as an early advocate of equal suffrage. Burial indexes place him in Longwood Cemetery.

Lucretia Mott Brosius Kirk taught in Chester County public schools for about fifteen years before marrying Benjamin Pennock Kirk in 1871. A birthright member of the Society of Friends, she took a strong interest in social and civic affairs and was particularly interested in the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Her family history records her burial in Longwood Cemetery.

Longwood Gardens identifies Rachel Peirce Lamborn as a documented Underground Railroad station agent buried in the cemetery. This edition does not assign additional reform categories until her individual records are more fully documented.

Longwood Gardens identifies Robert Lamborn as a documented Underground Railroad station agent buried at Longwood. Additional work is underway to distinguish him securely from other Chester County men of the same name.

Dinah Mendenhall was an abolitionist, Underground Railroad conductor, women's-suffrage advocate, and peace activist. She served for years as a vice president of the Universal Peace Union and joined the 1862 delegation that urged President Abraham Lincoln toward emancipation.

Isaac Mendenhall served as treasurer of the Chester County Anti-Slavery Society and, with Dinah, operated an Underground Railroad station for decades. He helped found the Longwood Progressive Friends and supported women's suffrage, temperance, pacifism, and freedom of religious thought.

Meredith was a Kennett Friend and Underground Railroad stationmaster. Smedley records freedom seekers being fed, sheltered, and transported from the Meredith home, and notes Isaac's long service in Kennett Monthly Meeting.

Thamazine Meredith shared the Newlin household that served as an Underground Railroad station. Smedley's account specifically records freedom seekers arriving at Isaac and Thamazine Meredith's home and being fed before continuing north.

Edith Pennock preserved the history and principles of the Longwood Progressive Friends and wrote first-hand recollections of the meeting, Theodore Parker, the conflict over anti-slavery agitation, and the founding of Longwood. Her surviving papers make her an important witness to the reform community as well as a participant in it.

Longwood Gardens names Mary Pennock among the documented Underground Railroad station agents buried in Longwood Cemetery. Additional work is needed to establish her full reform record and meeting affiliation without confusing similarly named Pennocks.

Longwood Gardens names Moses Pennock as a documented Underground Railroad station agent buried in Longwood Cemetery. This entry is deliberately conservative until more individual meeting and biographical records are verified.

Samuel Pennock was a Kennett Square abolitionist and Underground Railroad supporter. His home with Deborah Yerkes Pennock became a gathering place for reformers, including advocates of abolition and women's rights. County death records identify Longwood as his burial place.

Usually identified in Longwood sources as J. William Thorne, he was an Underground Railroad agent and Progressive Friend whose religious views were notably liberal. His wider public life also connected him with temperance and freethought controversies.

Turner was an abolitionist, suffragist, writer, and organizer for working women. She belonged to the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, helped organize Pennsylvania woman-suffrage work, and helped create the New Century Guild of Working Women, which provided education, support, and practical assistance to employed women.

Longwood Gardens includes William Webb among the documented Underground Railroad station agents buried in Longwood Cemetery. His individual reform biography and precise meeting affiliation require further record-by-record verification.