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Port Elizabeth Friend's Cemetery
South Delsea Drive, just north of the Port Elizabeth bridge.
Owner:
Society of Friends.
Use:
Burials still made there, occasionally.
 General Information:
A church, built prior to 1709, formerly stood here, but is now gone. The Society was active until 1854, when its members attached to the Greenwich monthly meeting. Occasional meetings were still held in the church after that time, and it was still standing in 1884, at which time the building was sold. Herbert W. Vanaman, Port Elizabeth, has a photograph of the church, in situ. Significance:
This cemetery is the last resting place of Elizabeth Bodly, founder of Port Elizabeth, although true to the Quaker tradition of Iack of ostentation, her stone bears only the initials E.B. Other prominent residents of this area, including Stephen Murphy, Abraham Reeves, William Madden, etc., are also buried here. Description:
Small cemetery surrounded by a masonry wall. Maintained on an intermittent basis, but in no worse shape than many municipal cemeteries. Although many stones bear only initials, it is possible to determine identities through lists of church members and relationships to other stones, augmented by collected genealogical data. |