page_title: Absalom Jones
section_title: Death and legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Absalom Jones / Death and legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Absalom Jones Cenotaph in Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania. Photo taken July 2019.
context_page_description: Absalom Jones was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman who became prominent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Disappointed at the racial discrimination he experienced in a local Methodist church, he founded the Free African Society with Richard Allen in 1787, a mutual aid society for African Americans in the city. The Free African Society included many people newly freed from slavery after the American Revolutionary War.
  In 1794 Jones founded the first black Episcopal congregation, and in 1802, he was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States. He is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints. He is remembered liturgically on the date of his death, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as "Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818".
context_section_description: Jones died on February 13, 1818, in Philadelphia.   He was originally interred in the St. Thomas Churchyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  His body was relocated to Lebanon Cemetery and then to Eden Cemetery.  In 1991, his remains exhumed, cremated and placed in a reliquary in the Absalom Jones altar of the current St. Thomas African Episcopal Church (now located at 6361 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia).  The chapel is named in his honor, as is the church's rectory. A cenotaph was placed at Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania marking the site of his former grave.
  The national Episcopal Church remembers his life and service annually on the anniversary of his death, February 13.
  The Diocese of Pennsylvania honors his memory with an annual celebration and award.
caption: Absalom Jones Cenotaph in Eden Cemetery
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