Whitewater Monthly Meeting was granted by West Branch Quarterly Meeting on 1809/08/12. The first meeting was held 1809/09/30. Whitewater remains an active meeting today as Richmond First Friends Meeting.


In August of 1828 a group of members known as Hicksites, divided into a separate meeting. This division affected many of the Friends Meetings in 1827-1828. A majority of the members of Whitewater Monthly Meeting were identified as Orthodox.

This location is on the east side of North 10th Street between North G street and North F street, Richmond, Indiana. This cemetery is considered one of the three oldest cemeteries in Richmond, Indiana.

This cemetery has been completely obliterated and replaced with houses, businesses and roads. In the years 1871, 1882, 1911, 1912 and 1956, some internees were removed to other cemeteries. Most of the moves were to Earlham Cemetery with some to Goshen and Hoover cemeteries. Each time, only those internees with grave stones were moved. These disinterments and moves were based on grave stones being found during construction and excavation. At one time many unknown graves were transferred to Earlham Cemetery and marked as unknown. Today, the Whitewater Orthodox Meeting House, built in 1878, pictured on the right, is the only way to identify this historic location. Many of the internee's were never disinterred or moved.

Hicksite Cemetery



Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 4, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (April 2009), gives the primary cemetery name as Old Northside Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-89-103 (Friends / Old Northside Burying Ground / Whitewater Monthly Meeting / Quaker).

The Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (IHSSI) survey number for Friends Old Northside Burying Ground is 177-536-55012 with the dataset compiled in 2001.