Union Baptist Cemetery
Union Baptist Cemetery located at 4933 Cleves Warsaw Pike, in the Price Hill neighborhood, is a registered historic district in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 2002. It contains a single contributing building. The cemetery is the oldest Baptist African-American cemetery in Cincinnati.
History
The cemetery was established by the Union Baptist Church in 1864 by members of the Union [Baptist Church, Cincinnati|Union Baptist Church]. Almost 150 other USCT veterans are buried at Union Baptist Cemetery.Notable burials
- Newt Allen, Negro league baseball player
- Powhatan Beaty, American Civil War veteran of the 5th [United States Colored Infantry Regiment]; a Medal of Honor recipient
- Mary Beck Bell, bishop, founder of the Spiritualist Church of the Soul
- Tiny Bradshaw, musician
- Edith Hern Fossett, enslaved cook for Thomas Jefferson at the White House, and head cook at Monticello
- George W. Hayes, Ohio state legislator
- David Leroy Nickens
- Consuelo Clark-Stewart
- Jennie Porter, founder of the Harriet Beecher Stowe School
- Wallace "Bud" Smith, boxer