Sling Cemetery, Ellwood (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 12:59 (3812 days ago) @ HarryBrook

Wow thanks Harry, well found sir !

From the aforementioned "4 Villages" website, I hope this contact info is current and may be wellworth a phonecall in advance of a visit.

Methodist Contact: Rev. Heather Upton, Phone 01594 833247
Ellwood Methodist Chapel, Bromley Road, Ellwood
http://www.4villages.org.uk/chapels-2

HOWEVER, this site suggests the Minister is different, altho hopefully the phone number will be still correct and still unchanged ?
Methodist Churches: Rev. David Bull 01594833247
The site also quotes an email address for him.
http://www.coleford-online.co.uk/local-information/places-worship/
http://main-place.org.uk/Coleford_Area_Partnership/Other_Areas/CAP_Worship.html

This prior thread gives more info about Ellwood Methodist Chapel and it's cemetery.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=15129

Also see http://www.westdeanpc.org.uk/ellwood/

Good luck in your search !

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PS While researching Ellwood I found hits relating to an Ellwood City near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Knowing that area saw massive growth in the late 1800s on the iron and then steel industry, due to having the USA's richest coal deposits, I wondered if Ellwood Pa could possibly owe it's foundation to settlers from the Forest ??.
Sadly, it seems not, or at least not as far as I can discover...
"Ellwood City was founded in 1892 by developer Henry Watters Hartman. The borough was named after Isaac L. Ellwood, one of the inventors of barbed wire."
http://www.ecboro.com/historical.htm

Issac's life is quite well documented, he was born in New York in 1833, so dashing my hopes it seems, ah well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Ellwood
he was the brother of congressman Reuben Ellwood, this site states their parents were "Abraham and Sarah Ellwood", but where were they from.... with children of this calibre it suggests to me they wern't from a poor background. Any takers ?....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuben_Ellwood