Hill Cemetery

Hill Cemetery occupies a one-acre parcel within Depreciation Lands Tract #22 in Leet's District, surveyed by Daniel Leet in 1785 and known as McKean after it was patented to Governor Thomas McKean for his service in the American Revolution. After McKean's death, the land passed to his daughter, Letitia Buchanan, wife of Dr. George Buchanan of Philadelphia. Jonathan Hill purchased the tract on July 17, 1819, and designated this parcel as a family cemetery, though it had already been used as a burying ground for several years and contains a grave dating to 1811. Native American graves lay on the western edge of the property, and Redoubt Number 4, an outer fortified redoubt and blockhouse from Major General Anthony Wayne's Legion Ville cantonment of 1792-1793, once stood in the southeast corner. The cemetery faces west toward the Ohio River, where Hill's Island formerly stood. Those buried here include two veterans of the American Revolution, one unidentified and one named Powell, and seven Civil War veterans: Alpheus Carothers, Isaac Grim, R.L.B. Hill, Daniel Holsinger, Isaac Mann, Robert Machesney, and William Moore. Ownership passed from Jonathan Hill to Enos Hill, then to George Cochran Hill, and then to Enos Hill II, and the Hill family, the Borough of Baden, and the American Legion maintain the cemetery.

Baden, Pennsylvania · United States