Goshen Cemetery

GOSHEN CEMETERY was located in Lincoln Township, northwest of Ackworth in the late 1840s. The early burials of the present-day Ackworth neighborhood were made at Goshen Cemetery.

South River Meeting, the Society of Friends at Ackworth, was the parent-church for the Goshen Meeting House. The first minister at Goshen was Rodema, wife of Elias Newlin. Eventually, the Goshen Quakers joined the meetings at Ackworth and the Goshen Meeting ceased to exist. The cemetery was abandoned. The land was deeded to the parent-church, South River Monthly.

Pleasant Bond and Sally Bond, for the consideration of Love and Esteem, conveyed to the Society of Friends, Samuel Owens, Benjamin Hinshaw, and Elias Newlin as Trustees of the South River Monthly and to their successors, two acres of land. This is recorded in Plat Book 1 page 84, and was dated May 11, 1860.

Warren County Genealogical Society. Cemetery and death records of Warren County, Iowa. Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1980.