Winona Friends Cemetery
Butler Township
Columbiana County, Ohio
Location: Section 26, Butler Twp, north of Winona Road (806) and east of Whinnery Road (415) on a hillside behind the Friend’s Meeting House.
Directions: From Interstate 76 between Akron and Youngstown take route 14 southeast to Salem (about 12.5 miles).
Turn right on State route 45 (U.S. 62) south to go around Salem (about 1.5 miles).
Turn right to SR-9 (New Garden Road) and go southwest (about 3 miles).
Turn left to go south on county road 415 (Whinnery Road) (about 1 mile).
From Mack’s History of Columbiana County:
Friend’s Churches. The first meeting of Friends in the township of Butler was in 1805 in which year a small meeting-house was erected. Joshua Lynch, of New Jersey, and Catlett Jones, of Virginia, served as ministers in that primitive house of worship about that time. Thomas Stanley and his large family of boys and girls, all then living in the township of Knox, were members of this society. Additions were made to the building from time to time to accommodate the increasing numbers, and in or near the year 1827 a large and commodious brick meeting house was built on the same site. In 1856 the building was destroyed by a high wind, and rebuilt during the following season. The monthly meeting numbers about 600 members. At the division in 1854, the branch call Gurneyites kept the meeting house. A large house was provided for the Ohio Yearly Meeting, which convenes in Butler every alternate year.
Wilburite Friends: The Wilburites branched from the main body in 1854, and two years thereafter built a meeting house at the east end of Walnut Street. They number about 150 members and belong to the Ohio Yearly Meeting, which assembles at Barnesville.
New Garden Meeting Friends –The meetings of this Society of Friends were transferred to Winona in 1839, having been held in Hanover Township prior to that time. Among the principle members were West Negus, John Johnson, Isaac Test, Casper Williams and Lewis R. Walker. The meeting house was built in 1839, and opened in January 1840. In 1854, when the separation occurred among Friends throughout the country, this society as felt its disturbing influence, and Gurneyites and Wilburites became distinct organizations. They worship in the same meeting house, but at different hours. The Gurneyites number about 70, and the Wilburites 270. About 1870 there were six didtinct societies of Friends at Winona and Salem, each claiming to hold to the original faith: Hicksites, Gurneyites, Wilburites, Kollites, Dr. Kite’s Meeting, and the Remnants.
Before 1956 the Winona Monthly Meeting was called the New Garden Monthly Meeting.
Test Relatives Buried at Winona Friends Cemetery
Old Section
Row 1
ZT – Zaccheus Test
Sarah C. Brantingham 1840-1883 w/o Joshua [Joshua s/o Alfred Brantingham and Ann Dean and brother of Mary C. Brantingham m Daniel D. Test
Row 14
Elisha K. Brantingham 1871-1895 (s/o Cyrus & Sarah – Cyrus s/o Joseph B. and Lydia Whinnery)
New Section, going uphill
Row 2, 1/r
Whinery, Rhoda 1855-1931 d/o Mahlon & Hannah Dean
Row 3 r/1
Stratton, Elizabeth 1854-1929 [Elizabeth Brantingham] w/o Joseph C. Stratton
Stratton, Joseph C 1855- 1928 s/o Barclay & Hannah
Brantingham, Elizabeth B. 1841- 1923 w/o George Brantingham
Brantingham, Charles 1867 – 1922 s/o George and Elizabeth
Brantingham, Wm 1860- 1922 s/o Alfred & Ann
Brantingham, Ann 1833-1920 (d/o Barton Dean and Hannah Jackson w/o Alfred)
Brantingham, Anna 1861-1919 (w/o Wm who was s/o Alfred and Ann Dean)
Row 4, 1/r
Harris, Lusina, 1835-1916 (w/o David Harris d/o Daniel Test and Mary Ann Barber)
Brantingham, Rachel K. 1846-1918 (w/o Joshua who was s/o Alfred and Ann Dean
Butler Township
Perry Township was formed in 1831 from sections of four different townships, Butler Twp losing sections 1,2,11, and 12.
