Many religious, social and civic meetings were held there. He died in July 1856 and his wife, Martha, died in 1877. They are buried in a small family cemetery on the southwest corner of his home farm, about fifty yards east of the old church property on the Whittemore Branch. She married secondly, Benjamin F. West, widower of her sister Martha. A few graves are marked only with field stones.
Cemetery is in good condition.
There is no sign to the cemetery - on a hill above the home of Oscar Anderson.