Also known as
Abbeyville Road Graveyard. Located on the southwest corner
of the intersection of Abbeyville Road Meadow Creek Road,
and underneath Meadow Creek Road.
History:
- Earliest recorded
burial - 1763
- Latest recorded
burial - 1858
- Landis H. Brubaker
(1892-1986), "The Brubakers and Their Lands in East
Hempfield Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania",
Pennsylvania
Mennonite Heritage, April 1982, p.18.
Brubaker claims the
first Mennonite meetinghouse in Lancaster County was
built on this site in 1730 and was used until 1791, when
a larger meetinghouse was built along the Rohrerstown
Road, north of Rohrerstown. The 1730 meetinghouse had a
cemetery, which was used long after the meetinghouse was
dismantled. Brubaker claims that burials were probably
made there until the latter half of the nineteenth
century. This cemetery was situated along the line fence
beteewn the farms of Christian B. Herr and David
Herr.
Brubaker remembers
visiting this cemetery between 1920 and 1925. It was
situated 150 or 200 feet from the road. Only a few
tombstones stood along the line fence between the two
Herr farms. He spoke with Christian B. Herr, the owner of
the farm, and claimed he said "he had buried the other
stones and that he thought it not worse to be farmed over
than to be grown over in brush and weeds." The style of
several stones indicated that those burials took place
well into the 1800s. Brubaker recalled the site of the
graveyard as underneath Meadow Creek Lane -- about 150 or
200 feet from Abbeyville Road."
Transcriptions:
- undated, Martin
Luther Heisey Collection, Lancaster Mennonite Historical
Society.
- 1931 - Gall, Geneva
J., published in Lancaster County
Connections,
Vol.3, No.3, 1986.
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