Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Quakers Fought. [ARTICLE]

Quakers Fought.

A hay harvest in che heart of the city is the unusual sight that presented itself to people passing the old “Fighting Quakers’ ” burying ground on Fifth street south of Locust, last week. The society of “Free Friends," as they called themselves, is now extinct, as the general society has broadened to meet their views, and no burials have been made in the ground for years. During the civil war many Union soldiers who died in the hospitals of this city were given a resting place alongside the “Fighting Quakers” of the Revolution. —[Philadelphia Record.