union cemetery
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Noun
union cemetery (plural union cemeteries)
- A cemetery shared by more than one church congregation or municipality, usually to lighten the financial burden (cost per congregation or municipality) and usually nondenominational/nonsectarian.
- 1989, Office of the Ohio Attorney General, “Part 1989-058”, in Ohio Attorney General Opinions Archive (1846-1992), volume 1989, retrieved 2021-03-10, page 2-244:
- Control and management of a union cemetery may be shifted from a union cemetery board to the combined boards of township trustees and municipal legislative authorities by appropriate action at any joint meeting provided for by R.C. 759.34 or R.C. 759.35; a board of township trustees which participates in the control and management of a union cemetery through joint meetings under R.C. 759.35 may contribute financially to the maintenance and operation of the cemetery.
- (When capitalized as "Union Cemetery") An instance of such a cemetery, as for example Union Cemetery in Redwood City, California or Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut.
- (US, when capitalized as "Union cemetery", with "Union" in an attributive proper noun sense) A cemetery principally for the interment of Union soldiers in the American Civil War.
- 2003 May 25, Randy Kraft, “Arlington held significance for Washington kin, Robert E. Lee”, in The Morning Call, retrieved 2021-03-10:
- The house [Arlington House] became the headquarters of the Union Army. The cemetery was created in 1864 by Union Quartermaster Gen. Montgomery Meigs. Although born in Georgia, Meigs considered Lee a traitor and vowed to punish him by turning his beloved home into a Union cemetery.