FALL 2003June 8, 2003
he Trustees met on June 4, 2003, striving to conduct business in a timely manner.
It was agreed that the official legal address of the Trustees of Salem Quarterly Meeting would be: P.O. Box 55, Woodstown, N.J. 08098-0055. This was deemed appropriate because it was seen as more likely to be a permanent address, not dependent upon any individual. It was pointed out that some documents require an official legal address.
The lawn care is proceeding well at all of our properties. Our properties at Lower Alloways Creek Meeting are under the care of a local lawn care service, owned by Steve and Keith Fisher, and are well cared for and managed. The cemetery at Port Elizabeth continues to be cared for by the First-day School class of Mullica Hill under the direction of Sue Price-Redfern and her husband, Robert. To them we give many thanks for this service.
The Trustees have considered bids for the refurbishing of the Old Cemetery of the Alloways Creek Meeting. The bid of $2,500.00 for refurbishing the cemetery, which includes taking out the trees that have grown up there and the underbrush, cultivating the ground, and planting grass was accepted. This bid was made by Steve and Keith Fisher, who are local and have an historic interest in these properties. An endowment of $5,000.00 to refurbish and care for the Old Cemetery was donated and earmarked for this project by John Lewis Powell.
The Trustees have been contacted by an organization, Women’s Heritage Trail, to honor women in the State of New Jersey who have made a contribution to our state’s history. Cornelia Hancock, who is buried in the Harmersville Cemetery, was a local Quaker woman who served as a nurse at Gettysburg after the engagement there in 1863. Later in her life she was instrumental in the effort to educate freed slaves. The Trustees united in allowing a plaque to be so erected at the Harmersville burial site.
The Clerk reported that a memorial meeting for worship was held for Harold Powell on April 5, 2003, at the Lower Alloways Creek Meetinghouse. About fifty people were in attendance. It was a Spirit-filled celebration of the life of an accomplished and generous man. Many went away inspired by the service (see memorial minute).
Respectfully submitted,
George A. Crispin, ClerkRETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
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