LONGWOOD CEMETERY • KENNETT SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA
Longwood Cemetery: Reformers at Rest
Across from the Longwood Progressive Friends Meetinghouse lies a cemetery established in 1855. This research directory identifies people buried here whose involvement in abolition, the Underground Railroad, women's rights, peace, religious liberalism, and other reform movements can be documented.
SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES
Principal Reformers
These names provide an introduction to the larger network. Select a person to jump to the full entry.
Portrait source: Cox family history profile, WikiTreeGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchJohn Cox1786-1880Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: R. C. Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad (1883), via Wikimedia CommonsGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchHannah Peirce Cox1797-1876Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: Friends of Barnard StationGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchEusebius Barnard1802-1865Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: Massachusetts Historical SocietyGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchHannah M. Darlington1808-1890Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: R. C. Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad (1883), via Wikimedia CommonsGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchDinah Hannum Mendenhall1807-1889Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: Massachusetts Historical Society, Portraits of American AbolitionistsGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchIsaac Mendenhall1806-1882Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
Portrait source: Max Longley, Quaker Carpetbagger (McFarland, 2020), cover via Google BooksGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchJoseph Williams Thorne1816-1897Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Freethought / Religious Liberalism
Portrait source: Massachusetts Historical SocietyGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchChandler Darlington1800–1879Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Temperance
Portrait source: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, New Century Trust records (3097), via In Her Own RightGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchEliza Sproat Turner1826–1903Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Women's Rights • Voting Rights / Suffrage
Portrait source: Futhey and Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (1881), p. 681; Cornell University LibraryGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchSamuel Pennock1816–1903Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Women's Rights
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Portrait source: no verified portrait locatedGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchHenry Simmons Kent1833–1906Voting Rights / Suffrage • Temperance • Peace / Anti-War
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Portrait source: no verified portrait locatedGravestone source: Longwood Cemetery burial searchJoanna Pennock Barnard1828–1866Anti-Slavery / Abolition • Underground Railroad • Temperance
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Directory of Documented Reformers
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51 people shown
John Agnew
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Friends meeting membership has not yet been independently verified in this research edition.
Lydia Agnew
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Friends meeting membership has not yet been independently verified in this research edition.
Eusebius Barnard
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 23 indexed appearances in 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1862, 1863, 1864, including 19 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, emancipation, racial equality, temperance, itinerant reform, and liberal religion. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Kennett Monthly Meeting; disowned over reform activity; founding Longwood Progressive Friend and minister.
Sources: Friends of Barnard Station R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection
Joanna Pennock Barnard
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Quaker; part of the Pennock and Barnard reform network in Kennett Square.
Sources: Underground Railroad encyclopedia entry on Joanna and Vincent Barnard Whole World's Temperance Convention proceedings Old Kennett Meeting bicentennial genealogy
Sarah Marsh Barnard
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Active in Longwood Progressive Meeting with Eusebius Barnard.
Sources: Friends of Barnard Station R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history
Sarah Painter Barnard
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Quaker reform family; documented participant in Eusebius Barnard's religious and reform work.
Sources: Friends of Barnard Station R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history
William Barnard
Barnard was an Underground Railroad stationmaster, founding Progressive Friend, and one of the Longwood delegates who petitioned President Abraham Lincoln for emancipation in 1862. The proceedings record thirty-one appearances in the 1853-1862 series, including twenty-seven at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Longwood Meeting record: 31 indexed appearances in 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1862, including 27 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, woman’s rights, peace, education, labor, worship, Spiritualism, and general reform. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Founding Longwood Progressive Friend and frequent Yearly Meeting speaker.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Bond participated in Longwood meetings from 1858 through 1863. He spoke about itinerant reform work, cooperation among reformers, the principles of the meeting, and universal emancipation, and also offered public prayer.
Longwood Meeting record: 6 indexed appearances in 1858, 1859, 1862, 1863. Subjects included itinerant reform work, cooperation among reformers, the principles of the meeting, and universal emancipation. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in Longwood Progressive Friends Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Thomas Borton
Cemetery records identify Thomas Borton, who died at age eighty-one. The Longwood proceedings record him in the 1856 discussion of tobacco and the 1858 discussion of caste and racial equality.
Longwood Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1856, 1858. Subjects included tobacco reform, caste, and racial equality. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in the 1856 and 1858 Longwood Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Susanna Phillips Chambers
The cemetery database records Susanna Phillips Chambers. The 1856 proceedings identify Susanna Chambers as a participant in the Longwood discussion of amusements.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1856. Subjects included amusements. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant at the 1856 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Hannah Peirce Cox
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Society of Friends background; founding Longwood Progressive Friend.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Another Branch of the Longwood Story R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection Biographical entry on Hannah Peirce Cox
John Cox
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Former Kennett Monthly Meeting; founding Longwood Progressive Friend.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Cox House and Progressive Friends R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway
Chandler Darlington
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 45 indexed appearances in 1853, 1855, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, including 44 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, emancipation, racial equality, suffrage, peace, prison reform, labor, temperance, and liberal religion. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Member of Longwood Progressive Friends; served as clerk. The Darlington home, The Pines, functioned as an Underground Railroad station.
Sources: The Fussell House: history of The Pines Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records
Hannah M. Darlington
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 Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1853 at the 1853-1854 precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened. Subjects included organization of the Yearly Meeting and the condition and rights of woman. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Member of the Longwood Progressive Friends with her husband Chandler Darlington.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection 1852 Woman's Rights Convention, Library of Congress Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More
Harlon Gause
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Friends meeting membership has not yet been independently verified in this research edition.
Rebecca Gause
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Friends meeting membership has not yet been independently verified in this research edition.
Alice Eliza Hambleton
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1856, 1858. Subjects included tobacco reform, caste, and racial equality. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Associated with the Longwood Progressive Friends reform circle.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection Hambleton Family Book
Thomas Hambleton
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 19 indexed appearances in 1853, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1867, including 18 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, emancipation, racial equality, education, criminal reform, peace, temperance, and itinerant reform. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Hicksite Friend; left about 1850 and joined in forming the Society of Progressive Friends.
Sources: Hambleton Family Book Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection
Castner Hanway
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Joined Longwood Meeting after his acquittal, according to a Friends Journal historical account.
Sources: National Park Service: Hanway trial Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection Friends Journal historical account
Hayes was a nurse associated with the Kennett Underground Railroad network. The proceedings record her speaking at Longwood on moral reform, tobacco, war and peace, liberal religion, and slavery between 1855 and 1860.
Longwood Meeting record: 6 indexed appearances in 1855, 1856, 1858, 1860. Subjects included moral reform, tobacco, peace, liberal religion, and slavery. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in Longwood Progressive Friends Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Caleb Sharpless Jackson
Jackson was a Quaker abolitionist, Underground Railroad supporter, and early Longwood Progressive Friend. Under the name Caleb S. Jackson, the proceedings record eighteen appearances from 1854 through 1867 on slavery, racial equality, peace, labor, temperance, and liberal religion.
Longwood Meeting record: 18 indexed appearances in 1854, 1855, 1856, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1866, 1867, including 17 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, racial equality, labor, peace, temperance, worship, and liberal religion. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Founder or early member of Longwood Progressive Friends.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Mary Ann Gause Jackson
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Recognized in Longwood records as one of the founders or earliest members of the Longwood Progressive Friends.
Sources: Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records Jackson family history
Mary Ann White Johnson
Mary Ann White Johnson was a prison reform advocate and the first wife of abolitionist editor Oliver Johnson. The proceedings record her participation from 1853 through 1871 on woman’s rights, prison reform, labor and capital, temperance, marriage, Spiritualism, and amusements.
Longwood Meeting record: 12 indexed appearances in 1853, 1856, 1857, 1859, 1869, 1870, 1871, including 10 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included woman’s rights, prison reform, labor and capital, temperance, marriage, Spiritualism, tobacco, and amusements. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Participant in the 1853 precursor meeting and later Longwood Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Oliver Johnson
Johnson was an abolitionist editor, biographer of William Lloyd Garrison, organizer of the Progressive Friends, and longtime clerk of the Yearly Meeting. The attached index records eighty appearances across the 1853-1872 series, including seventy-three at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Longwood Meeting record: 80 indexed appearances in 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872, including 73 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included slavery, emancipation, racial equality, woman’s rights, peace, prison reform, labor, education, temperance, religion, and the purposes of Progressive Friends. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Organizer, clerk, and frequent speaker of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Henry Simmons Kent
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Birmingham Monthly Meeting; membership transferred in 1893 to Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, where he served as an elder. Active participant at Longwood Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Chester County History Center: Henry S. and Patience W. Kent Papers Longwood Cemetery
Benjamin Pennock Kirk
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: From a Chester County Quaker family; his own formal meeting membership is not assigned here without a meeting record.
Sources: Benjamin Pennock Kirk biography Longwood Cemetery burial index
Lucretia Mott Brosius Kirk
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Birthright member of the Society of Friends. Her exact monthly-meeting membership is not assigned here until a meeting record is checked.
Jonathan Lamborn
Lamborn helped open the first Progressive Friends Yearly Meeting in 1853 and participated in its organization and religious discussions. He also spoke about the extension of slavery in 1854 and gave farewell remarks at Longwood in 1855.
Longwood Meeting record: 8 indexed appearances in 1853, 1854, 1855, including 1 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward. Subjects included organization, religious liberty, slavery, practical righteousness, prayer, and farewell reflections. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Participant in the 1853 and 1854 precursor meetings and the 1855 Longwood meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Rachel Peirce Lamborn
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Quaker family context is documented; exact meeting membership remains under verification.
Robert Lamborn
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Quaker family context is documented; exact meeting membership remains under verification.
Anna Mary Marshall
Longwood Cemetery records identify her as Dr. Anna Mary Marshall. The published proceedings record her reading the annual call to the Progressive Friends Yearly Meeting in 1867, 1868, and 1870.
Longwood Meeting record: 3 indexed appearances in 1867, 1868, 1870. Subjects included the annual call and opening business of the Yearly Meeting. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Dinah Hannum Mendenhall
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Kennett Friends connection; active in the Longwood reform community.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history
Isaac Mendenhall
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1857, 1866. Subjects included education, temperance, capital punishment, racial caste, and reform. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Kennett Monthly Meeting; disowned amid reform conflict; founding Longwood Progressive Friend.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years and More
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 4 indexed appearances in 1856, 1862, 1871. Subjects included tobacco, peace, emancipation, temperance, and kindness to animals. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Member and longtime clerk of Kennett Monthly Meeting; later associated with the Progressive Friends.
Sources: R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection
Thamazine Meredith
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Quaker and Progressive Friends family context; exact individual membership is still being checked.
Sources: R. C. Smedley, Underground Railroad history Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection
Sarah Townsend Harvey Pearson
Pearson operated a free-produce store in Hamorton, refusing goods produced by enslaved labor. The proceedings record her at Longwood from 1855 through 1872 on tobacco, war and peace, memorials, and closing reflections.
Longwood Meeting record: 7 indexed appearances in 1855, 1858, 1867, 1868, 1872. Subjects included tobacco, peace, memorials, and closing reflections. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in Longwood Progressive Friends Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Longwood Progressive Friend; later remembered as the last surviving Longwood Friend of the original reform generation.
Sources: Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records Friends historical publication mentioning Edith Pennock Longwood Cemetery burial index listing Edith Pennock
Josephine Pennock
Cemetery records identify Josephine Pennock, who died in 1944. The archival chronology lists her as the author of “My First Memories of Longwood,” contributed to the final meeting record in 1940.
Longwood Meeting record: 1940 contributor. “My First Memories of Longwood,” contributed to the 1940 final meeting record. See the complete record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Author and final-meeting contributor in 1940.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records
Mary Jones Pennock
The cemetery record identifies Mary Jones Pennock, née Lamborn. Longwood Gardens includes Mary Pennock among the documented Underground Railroad station agents, and the 1856 proceedings record Mary J. Pennock in the discussion of amusements.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1856. Subjects included amusements. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Kennett-area Quaker context; exact meeting membership remains under verification.
Morton Pennock belonged to the Kennett Pennock reform family. The 1856 proceedings record him as a participant in the Longwood discussion of amusements.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1856. Subjects included amusements. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant at the 1856 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Moses Pennock
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Kennett-area Quaker context; exact meeting membership remains under verification.
Samuel Pennock
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Born into a prominent Chester County Quaker family and closely associated with the Longwood reform circle.
Sources: Chester County death register, 1893–1907 Brandywine Valley Underground Railroad guide Old Kennett Meeting bicentennial genealogy
The cemetery historical tour describes Preston as active in Kennett’s moral and intellectual movements for four decades. At Longwood he participated in the 1859 discussion of Spiritualism and the 1872 debate over peace and whether war could ever be right.
Longwood Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1859, 1872. Subjects included Spiritualism and peace. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in the 1859 and 1872 Longwood Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
The cemetery database records Benjamin Pyle, who died in 1857 at age sixty-seven. The 1856 proceedings identify Benjamin Pyle as a participant in the meeting discussion of tobacco reform.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1856. Subjects included tobacco reform. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant at the 1856 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
The cemetery database records William Pyle, who died in 1907 at age ninety-one. The 1870 proceedings identify William Pyle as a participant in the Longwood discussion of woman suffrage.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1870. Subjects included woman suffrage. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant at the 1870 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Bayard Taylor
Taylor was a poet, travel writer, translator, and diplomat from Kennett Square. At the 1869 Yearly Meeting he spoke about the German Protestant Union and liberal religion, and the meeting received his written address on general reform and progress.
Longwood Meeting record: 2 indexed appearances in 1869. Subjects included liberal religion, the German Protestant Union, general reform, and progress. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Speaker and contributor at the 1869 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
Joseph Williams Thorne
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.
Longwood Meeting record: 37 indexed appearances in 1855, 1860, 1862, 1863, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872. Subjects included emancipation, political equality, suffrage, peace, Reconstruction, labor, temperance, prison reform, and liberal religion. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in the Society of Progressive Friends at Longwood.
Sources: Longwood Gardens: Underground Railroad Connection Longwood Gardens: Longwood history
Eliza Sproat Turner
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Raised in a Quaker-influenced reform environment; a specific formal Friends meeting membership is not assigned here.
Sources: Historical Society of Pennsylvania: New Century Trust records History of Woman Suffrage, Pennsylvania chapter Memorial volume for Eliza Sproat Turner
William Webb
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.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Friends meeting membership has not yet been independently verified in this research edition.
Wilson presented organizational and financial reports and joined discussions of education and Spiritualism. In 1872 he spoke about education, kindergarten, and conditions affecting children before birth.
Longwood Meeting record: 5 indexed appearances in 1856, 1857, 1872. Subjects included education, kindergarten, Spiritualism, organizational business, and the treasurer’s report. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant in the 1856, 1857, and 1872 Longwood Yearly Meetings.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Published Progressive Friends proceedings
John Jackson Woodward
The cemetery historical tour identifies John Jackson Woodward. The 1871 proceedings record John J. Woodward as a participant in the Longwood discussion of religion.
Longwood Meeting record: 1 indexed appearance in 1871. Subjects included religion. See the complete year-by-year record below.
Meeting affiliation and sources
Friends / Meeting affiliation: Documented participant at the 1871 Longwood Yearly Meeting.
Sources: Longwood Cemetery burial search Longwood Cemetery historical tour Published Progressive Friends proceedings
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MEETING RECORDS AND THE CEMETERY
Longwood Meeting Speakers and Contributors Buried Here
A name-by-name comparison of 256 people in the two attached workbooks with the official Longwood Cemetery records identified 27 speakers and one final-meeting contributor buried in the cemetery. The first Yearly Meeting met at Old Kennett in 1853. The 1854 meeting also preceded the opening of the Longwood meetinghouse. Counts below separate those two precursor meetings from sessions held at Longwood beginning in 1855.
Eusebius Barnard
Record summary: 23 indexed appearances in the full series, including 19 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Eusebius Barnard
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1854: precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened Practical righteousness and religion expressed in life (discussion participant); Slavery (presented address); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1855: Responses to correspondence; religion and reform (remarks); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant); Responses to correspondence and liberal religion (remarks); First-day meetings (discussion participant)
1857: Slavery (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant); Religion and reform (address / remarks); Itinerant reform meetings (introduced proposal)
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant); Public worship (discussion participant); Religious revival and liberal religion (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1859: Religion and reform (address / remarks)
1862: Responses to correspondence and reform work (remarks)
1863: Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks); Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
1864: Reform and anti-slavery work (remarks)
William Barnard
Record summary: 31 indexed appearances in the full series, including 27 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: William Barnard
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks); Objects and purposes of the proposed Yearly Meeting (address)
1854: precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened Responses to correspondence and the purposes of the meeting (remarks); Religion and reform (remarks)
1855: Responses to correspondence; religion and reform (remarks); Religion and reform (remarks); Tobacco (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1856: Woman's Rights (discussion participant); Education (discussion participant); Capital and labor (discussion participant); First-day meetings (discussion participant); Amusements (discussion participant)
1857: War and peace (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks); Religion and reform (address / remarks); Itinerant reform meetings and support of reform lecturers (discussion participant); Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1858: Education (discussion participant); Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant); Public worship (discussion participant); War and peace (discussion participant)
1859: Amendment of correspondence / testimony (discussion participant); Closing worship (prayer); Philadelphia association of kindred reformers (remarks); Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1860: Opening of the meeting (introductory remarks); Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant)
1862: Opening worship (prayer); Responses to correspondence and reform work (remarks)
Josiah Bond
Record summary: 6 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Josiah Bond
Years and subjects
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant)
1859: Philadelphia association of kindred reformers (remarks)
1862: Principles and spirit governing the meeting (remarks); Opening worship (prayer)
1863: Opening worship (prayer); Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
Thomas Borton
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Thomas Borton
Years and subjects
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant)
1858: Caste and racial equality (discussion participant)
Susanna Phillips Chambers
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Susanna Chambers
Years and subjects
1856: Amusements (discussion participant)
Chandler Darlington
Record summary: 45 indexed appearances in the full series, including 44 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Chandler Darlington
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Organization, religious liberty, equality, and purposes of Progressive Friends (discussion participant)
1855: Amusements and moral reform (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant); Slavery; report not prepared because of Cyrus M. Burleigh's death (report to meeting)
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant); Woman's Rights (discussion participant); First-day meetings (discussion participant); Amusements (discussion participant)
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant); Public worship (discussion participant); Religious revival and liberal religion (discussion participant); War and peace (discussion participant)
1859: Marriage (discussion participant); Revision of committee work (response); Amendment of correspondence / testimony (discussion participant); Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1860: Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant)
1862: Public prayer (remarks / critique); Public prayer (further remarks); Emancipation and memorial to the President (remarks)
1863: The Slaveholders' Rebellion (discussion participant); Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
1864: Religious sentiment across the ages (remarks)
1865: Universal suffrage and equal political rights (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1866: Religion, Reconstruction, and purposes of the meeting (remarks / discussion); Religion (discussion participant)
1867: Religion (presented alternative testimony); War and peace (discussion participant); Religion and liberal theology (discussion participant); Religion and reform (address / remarks)
1868: Trust fund / meeting property (motion / remarks); Freedpeople and racial equality (discussion participant); Afterlife, creed, and religious liberty (resolution / remarks); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1869: Labor and capital; money and interest (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1870: Prison reform and prison discipline (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant)
1871: Memorials of Robert Lamborn, Maria Agnew, Thomas Garrett, Bartholomew Fussell, and Vincent Barnard (memorial remarks); Religion (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant); Labor Question (discussion participant); Rights of Children (discussion participant)
Hannah M. Darlington
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the 1853 precursor meeting. The attached records do not document an appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Hannah M. Darlington
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Organization of the meeting; nomination of clerk (procedural remarks); Condition and rights of woman (presented committee address)
Alice Eliza Hambleton
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Alice Eliza Hambleton
Years and subjects
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant)
1858: Caste and racial equality (discussion participant)
Thomas Hambleton
Record summary: 19 indexed appearances in the full series, including 18 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Thomas Hambleton
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Organization, religious liberty, equality, and purposes of Progressive Friends (discussion participant)
1855: Responses to correspondence; religion and reform (remarks); Religion and reform (remarks); Amusements and moral reform (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant)
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant); Education (discussion participant); Treatment of criminals (discussion participant); Amusements (discussion participant)
1857: Itinerant reform meetings and support of reform lecturers (discussion participant); Education (discussion participant)
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant)
1859: Treatment of criminals (discussion participant)
1862: Peace, emancipation, and national reform (remarks / discussion)
1863: Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
1865: Temperance (discussion participant)
1866: Temperance, capital punishment, racial caste, and reform (remarks / discussion)
1867: Temperance (discussion participant)
Esther Hayes
Record summary: 6 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Esther Hayes
Years and subjects
1855: Amusements and moral reform (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant)
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant)
1858: Religious revival and liberal religion (discussion participant); War and peace (discussion participant)
1860: Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant)
Caleb Sharpless Jackson
Record summary: 18 indexed appearances in the full series, including 17 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Caleb S. Jackson
Years and subjects
1854: precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened Missouri Restriction and the extension of slavery (discussion participant)
1855: Tobacco (discussion participant)
1856: Capital and labor (discussion participant); First-day meetings (discussion participant); Amusements (discussion participant)
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant); Public worship (discussion participant); Religious revival and liberal religion (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant); War and peace (discussion participant)
1859: Adoption of formal testimonies (protest / remarks)
1860: General reform work (brief addresses); Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant)
1862: Peace, emancipation, and national reform (remarks / discussion)
1866: Religion, Reconstruction, and purposes of the meeting (remarks / discussion); Religion (discussion participant)
1867: Religion and liberal theology (discussion participant)
Mary Ann White Johnson
Record summary: 12 indexed appearances in the full series, including 10 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Mary A. W. Johnson, Mary Anne W. Johnson
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Tobacco (introduced subject); Tobacco (presented committee report)
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant); Woman's Rights (presented report); Amusements (discussion participant)
1857: Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1859: Marriage (discussion participant); Treatment of criminals (discussion participant); Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1869: Labor and capital; money and interest (discussion participant)
1870: Prison reform and prison discipline (discussion participant)
1871: Temperance (discussion participant)
Oliver Johnson
Record summary: 80 indexed appearances in the full series, including 73 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Oliver Johnson
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Closing worship (vocal prayer); Organization, religious liberty, equality, and purposes of Progressive Friends (discussion participant); Scriptural reading, 1 Corinthians XII–XIII (scripture reading); Proposal for a committee on the condition and rights of woman (procedural remarks)
1854: precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened Practical righteousness and religion expressed in life (discussion participant); Universal Christian Alliance (presented / read documents); Missouri Restriction and the extension of slavery (discussion participant)
1855: Responses to correspondence; religion and reform (remarks); Religion and reform (remarks); Amusements (presented essay); Letter from George Trask on tobacco (read correspondence); Tobacco (discussion participant)
1856: Amusements testimony (proposed amendment); Tobacco (discussion participant); Capital and labor (discussion participant); Contributions and support of reform work (remarks); Amusements (presented paper); First-day meetings (discussion participant); Slavery (discussion participant)
1857: Capital punishment (discussion participant); Religion and reform (address / remarks); Itinerant reform meetings and support of reform lecturers (discussion participant); Education (discussion participant)
1858: Itinerant reform meetings (discussion participant); Caste and racial equality (discussion participant); Public worship (discussion participant); Religious revival and liberal religion (discussion participant); Sectarianism (discussion participant); War and peace (discussion participant); Opening; purposes of Progressive Friends (opening remarks)
1859: Sectarianism (discussion participant); Slavery (discussion participant); Letter to Theodore Parker (introduced / read letter); Call to the meeting (read call); Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1860: Opening worship (prayer); Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant); Kindness to animals / cruelty to animals (remarks)
1862: Resumption of the Yearly Meeting after omission of 1861 (introductory remarks); Public prayer (response / remarks); Public prayer and religious expression (discussion participant)
1863: Call and purposes of the meeting (read call / remarks); Religious reading and opening of meeting (scripture reading / remarks); The Slaveholders' Rebellion (discussion participant); Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
1864: Religion and reform (prayer and address); Opening; slavery, war, and reform (remarks)
1865: Call and opening of the meeting (read call / remarks); Religion and reform after emancipation (addresses); Temperance (discussion participant); Freedpeople (presented testimony / remarks)
1866: Religion, Reconstruction, and purposes of the meeting (remarks / discussion); Reconstruction and political equality (discussion participant); Memorials of deceased reformers (presented memorials); Reconstruction (discussion participant); Religion (discussion participant)
1867: Religion and liberal theology (discussion participant)
1868: Memorials and opening remarks (presented memorials / remarks); Freedpeople and racial equality (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks); Thanks to musicians (resolution / remarks)
1869: Call and opening of the meeting (read call / remarks); Our Country (presented testimony); Crime and criminals (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1870: Prison reform and prison discipline (discussion participant); Religion and the common schools (discussion participant)
1871: Character, aims, history, and prospects of Progressive Friends; memorials (address / presented memorials); Religion (discussion participant); The Woman Question / woman's rights (address / discussion); Theodore Parker (remarks); Temperance (discussion participant); Labor Question (discussion participant); Rights of Children (discussion participant)
1872: Principles and purposes of Progressive Friends (opening remarks and prayer); Religion (discussion participant); Peace and whether war can ever be right (discussion participant); Peace, arbitration, and substitute testimony (discussion participant); Prison Reform (presented testimony); The Constitution and the Schools (presented testimony / remarks)
Jonathan Lamborn
Record summary: 8 indexed appearances in the full series, including 1 at the Longwood meetinghouse from 1855 onward.
Name form in the workbooks: Jonathan Lamborn
Years and subjects
1853: Old Kennett precursor meeting Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks); Opening of the Yearly Meeting (vocal prayer); Organization, religious liberty, equality, and purposes of Progressive Friends (discussion participant)
1854: precursor meeting before the Longwood meetinghouse opened Practical righteousness and religion expressed in life (discussion participant); Responses to correspondence and the purposes of the meeting (remarks); Missouri Restriction and the extension of slavery (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1855: Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
Anna Mary Marshall
Record summary: 3 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Anna Mary Marshall
Years and subjects
1867: Call to the meeting (read call)
1868: Call to the meeting (read call)
1870: Call to the meeting (read call)
Isaac Mendenhall
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Isaac Mendenhall
Years and subjects
1857: Education (discussion participant)
1866: Temperance, capital punishment, racial caste, and reform (remarks / discussion)
Isaac Meredith
Record summary: 4 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Isaac Meredith
Years and subjects
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant)
1862: Peace, emancipation, and national reform (remarks / discussion)
1871: Temperance (discussion participant); Kindness to Animals (discussion participant)
Sarah Townsend Harvey Pearson
Record summary: 7 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: S. T. Pearson, Sarah T. H. Pearson
Years and subjects
1855: Tobacco (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1858: War and peace (discussion participant)
1867: War and peace (discussion participant)
1868: Memorials of deceased reformers (remarks); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1872: Memorials of Annie M. Stambach Galvin, Joseph Moore, Samuel J. May, Mary A. W. Johnson, and Lukens Pierce (memorial remarks)
Josephine Pennock
Record summary: One documented final-meeting contribution in 1940.
Name form in the workbooks: Josephine Pennock
Years and subjects
1940: “My First Memories of Longwood” (author / final-meeting contributor)
Mary Jones Pennock
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Mary J. Pennock
Years and subjects
1856: Amusements (discussion participant)
Morton Pennock
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Morton Pennock
Years and subjects
1856: Amusements (discussion participant)
Levi Preston
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Levi Preston
Years and subjects
1859: Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1872: Peace and whether war can ever be right (discussion participant)
Benjamin Pyle
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Benjamin Pyle
Years and subjects
1856: Tobacco (discussion participant)
William Pyle
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: William Pyle
Years and subjects
1870: Woman suffrage (discussion participant)
Bayard Taylor
Record summary: 2 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Bayard Taylor
Years and subjects
1869: German Protestant Union and liberal religion (remarks); General Reform and Progress (written address read / presented)
Joseph Williams Thorne
Record summary: 37 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: J. W. Thorne, J. Williams Thorne
Years and subjects
1855: Responses to correspondence; religion and reform (remarks); Amusements and moral reform (discussion participant)
1860: Slavery and the national crisis (discussion participant); Kindness to animals / cruelty to animals (remarks)
1862: Peace, emancipation, and national reform (remarks / discussion)
1863: Memorial for universal emancipation (discussion participant)
1865: Universal suffrage and equal political rights (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1866: Reconstruction (discussion participant)
1867: Religion (addresses / remarks); War and peace (discussion participant); Religion and liberal theology (discussion participant); Religion and reform (address / remarks)
1868: Freedpeople and racial equality (discussion participant); Black suffrage in the North (discussion participant); Farewell and closing reflections (farewell remarks)
1869: Crime and criminals (discussion participant); Labor and capital; money and interest (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
1870: Prison reform and prison discipline (discussion participant); North Carolina, racial progress, and civil rights (statement / remarks); Temperance (discussion participant); Woman suffrage (discussion participant); Tobacco (discussion participant); Religion and the common schools (discussion participant)
1871: Memorials of Robert Lamborn, Maria Agnew, Thomas Garrett, Bartholomew Fussell, and Vincent Barnard (memorial remarks); Religion (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant); The Life Which Now Is; religious life (remarks); Kindness to Animals (discussion participant); Labor Question (discussion participant); Peace (discussion participant); Rights of Children (discussion participant)
1872: Religion (discussion participant); Education, Kindergarten, and antenatal conditions of children (discussion participant); Peace, arbitration, and substitute testimony (discussion participant); Temperance (discussion participant)
Peter Wilson
Record summary: 5 indexed appearances at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: Peter Wilson
Years and subjects
1856: Education (discussion participant); Nomination of clerks (presented committee report); Treasurer's report (presented report)
1857: Spiritualism (discussion participant)
1872: Education, Kindergarten, and antenatal conditions of children (discussion participant)
John Jackson Woodward
Record summary: 1 indexed appearance at the Longwood meetinghouse.
Name form in the workbooks: John J. Woodward
Years and subjects
1871: Religion (discussion participant)
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Additional Reformers and Activists Under Review
These people emerged from the continuing research into Longwood Progressive Friends, abolition, suffrage, temperance, peace, and Underground Railroad sources. They are preserved here so the full research list is not lost, but they are not counted in the verified cemetery directory above until their exact Longwood burial or identity is fully established.
Deborah Ann Yerkes Pennock
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association executive-committee member in 1884; reform household with Samuel Pennock; associated with the Underground Railroad and hosted Susan B. Anthony. Final Longwood burial confirmation still needed.
Aaron Mendenhall
Succeeded Isaac Mendenhall as treasurer of the Longwood Progressive Friends and appears in the meeting's published proceedings while it addressed labor, prison reform, temperance, education, religion, and Native American questions. Anti-slavery participation is also documented. Direct Longwood burial evidence still needed.
Alice Jackson of Avondale
Documented abolition and women's-rights activist who served on the Business Committee at the 1852 West Chester Woman's Rights Convention and in anti-slavery organizational work. Exact identity and burial must be separated from other Chester County Alice Jacksons.
Mary Ann Fulton
Vice president at the 1852 Woman's Rights Convention and participant in Chester County temperance work. Family identity and Longwood burial still being established.
Vincent S. Barnard
Quaker Underground Railroad stationmaster with Joanna Pennock Barnard, Chester County temperance delegate, and conscientious objector. Longwood burial confirmation still needed.
Patience Webster Kent
Prominent Chester County progressive writer and speaker on education, religion, suffrage, and temperance. Chester County History Center documents her reform work; burial at Longwood has not yet been confirmed.
Simon Barnard
Prominent Underground Railroad stationmaster and early Longwood Progressive Friend in the Barnard family network. Burial confirmation still needed.
Lydia E. Cox
Delegate associated with Chester County temperance and Progressive Friends activity. Because several Cox family members are represented at Longwood, her exact identity and burial are still being checked.
Amanda Gause
Named as a Chester County Temperance Society delegate at the 1853 Whole World's Temperance Convention. Burial status at Longwood remains under review.
Martha Barnard
Named in the Chester County temperance reform delegation at the 1853 Whole World's Temperance Convention. Burial status at Longwood remains under review.
Susan F. Peirce
Named in the Chester County temperance reform delegation at the 1853 Whole World's Temperance Convention. Burial status at Longwood remains under review.
Phebe Anne Lamborn
Named in the Chester County temperance reform delegation at the 1853 Whole World's Temperance Convention. Burial status at Longwood remains under review.
Ruth Dugdale
Temperance and reform activist associated with the Longwood Progressive Friends circle and the 1853 temperance convention. Burial status remains under review.
Joseph Dugdale
Progressive Friends reformer and temperance participant, also part of the broader abolition and women's-rights network around Longwood. Burial status remains under review.
ABOUT THIS RESEARCH
How people qualify for this directory
Inclusion requires two things: evidence that the person is buried in Longwood Cemetery and documentary evidence of personal participation in a reform movement. Family relationship, residence near Longwood, or association with a famous reformer is not enough by itself.
The field Friends / Meeting affiliation distinguishes documented membership or participation from cases in which a Quaker family connection is known but the individual's exact meeting membership still requires verification. Longwood Progressive Friends grew from the Quaker community, but participation at Longwood did not always mean formal membership in an established Friends meeting.
The cemetery's full Find a Grave memorial list contains thousands of entries. Find a Grave currently restricts automated page-by-page access, so this edition does not claim to be a completed audit of every memorial. It is a verified core built from Longwood Gardens research, contemporary and near-contemporary histories, meeting-related sources, and other documentary evidence. Uncertain identifications are not silently merged. This version contains 51 public directory entries plus 14 research candidates, preserving a 65-name working list. The meeting comparison checked all 256 distinct named people represented in the two attached workbooks against the official cemetery search; uncertain same-name results were not merged.
Core sources
Longwood Gardens, “Sharing Our Underground Railroad Connection”
Longwood Gardens, “Another Branch of the Longwood Story”
R. C. Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania, part 17
Smedley, part 18
Smedley, part 19
Proceedings of the 1852 Woman's Rights Convention, Library of Congress
Longwood Cemetery burial search
Longwood Cemetery historical tour
Published proceedings, 1853-1872
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records
Longwood Cemetery memorial search, Find a Grave
Brosius genealogy, Lucretia Mott Brosius Kirk
Longwood founders commemoration list, 2005