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Ashland Cemetery was established by Col. William Penrose out of a need for burial space in Carlisle. It was consecrated before a crowd of local residents on Oct. 8, 1865.
It in the Penrose family until 1952 when Penrose’s two remaining daughters sold the cemetery to Seymour Ewing and William Ewing, twin brothers and the great-grandsons of Alexander Black Ewing. The Ewing Brothers Funeral Home continued to operate the cemetery.
In 2017, Steven A. Ewing, who had become the sole owner of the cemetery, along with being the manager at Ewing Brothers Funeral Home, put it up for sale.
In March of 1866, the federal government purchased part of the north side of Ashland Cemetery for a military graveyard. Carlisle’s 12-acre Ashland Cemetery contains a Soldiers’ Lot with the remains of more than 500 Union soldiers. The soldiers died while stationed at the Carlisle Barracks, one of the oldest military posts in the nation and today home to the U.S. Army War College. Most of the remains lay in a mass grave, with a monument standing as a memorial to the soldiers’ sacrifice.
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