Baden's First 100 Years

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days was quite a hardship, especially for the old people. This, I believe, is the real reason for the old time burying ground. It was a necessity in any sparsely settled community. No doubt Jonathan Hill died feeling that he had rendered a real service to future generations of the Hill family. He could not look into the future and see Baden as a thriving and beautiful residential town, surrounded by industrial towns, such as Ambridge and Aliquippa and near the largest railroad yard in the world.

I do not know the exact date of the first burial in the cemetery as the inscriptions on some of the very old stones cannot be deciphered, but one stone has the date 1811. This old burial ground has been handed down by will from generation to generation, or in other words from Jonathan Hill to Enos Hill, my grandfather, to Cochran Hill, my father, to Enos Hill II, my brother, the persent owner. It is interesting that, during the time of the encampment of General Anthony Wayne at Legionville, his block house was located in one corner of the cemetery. The exact location is wee known but the foundation of this building has long since been covered up.

There are quite a number of very old graves in the cemetery, two Revolutionary War soldiers; one a Mr. Powell, the name of the other is unknown; and seven Civil War soldiers:Alfred Carothers, Isaac Mann, and Daniel Holsinger. The old graves and historical landmarks are not the only features in connection with this plot of groud, as quite a number of the locust posts in the fence, which surrounds it, were placed there by my father about fify years ago. I might add that half the people buried here are not related to the Hills.

The old Hill Cemetery was surely a cemetery "by the side of the road." It is my hope that this old cemetery might be sometime and somehow maintained in better condition and remain in the Hill family through the coming generations.

MOORE FARM
In 1823 my great grandfather, Mr. Jones Moore, Sr., bought about 500acres of land in what is now the Borough of Baden. At that time he was in the furniture business in Baltimore and Pittsburgh. He bought the land either from Thomas McKean, who had been governor of Pennsylvania from1799 to 1808, or from his daughter, Mrs. Letitia McKean Buchanan. The land extended from Harmony Road to where the Lutheran Church now stands and 1 1/4 miles toward the east from the Ohio River. It was lot number 23 in Tract No. 2 of the Depreciation Lands.

Mr. Moore paid $1,500 in cash for the land. He also made quite a lot of furniture for Mrs. Buchanan who wanted it as a wedding gift for a member of her family.

In 1824 my great-grandfather built a two-story brick house on his property. This house had very thick walls and the mantels were

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