Abiel Thomas Cemetery: Notes

Though in its current form this could easily now be taken to have been a family burial plot, it was probably once a neighborhood ground for the area known as “Moontown” or “Hoard-town”. When the compilers read it, it was overgrown with trees and brush and full of woodchuck holes and prickers, but the town has since undertaken a cleanup.

The farm was once owned by Benoni Moon, and Cleveland states that his young son “filled the first grave in the neighborhood,” so presumably this was the site, which afterward was used by other nearby families. Many of the markers were broken, fallen or both when the compilers read them. The plot is clearly visible from the highway and has a short driveway leading to it from the road.

It should be noted that two of the stones now in this plot were moved here from a farm on the north side of Voorhees Road a mile or so to the west sometime during the 1950s. No one the compilers talked to about this could recall what the names on the stones were, but the fact of the removal itself, undertaken to protect the stones from damage when the fields were worked, is undisputed.