. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. council are Samuel Phillips, E. K. Moyer,Isaiah Fluck and Ellis D. Moyer. EMMANUELS, SOUDERTON IN 1753, Jacob Leidy, having secured a tract of landin Franconia township, then in PhiladelphiaCounty, set aside a plot of his farm for the burial ofthe dead of his own family. Owing to the distancesto the cemeteries of the older churches this soon be-came the common burial place for the people of Fran-conia and Hilltown townships, Montgomery 1780 this farm together with this burial plot wasconveyed to Jacob Leidy the third. In 1795 theheads of the families who
. 1517-1917. Jubilee volume. council are Samuel Phillips, E. K. Moyer,Isaiah Fluck and Ellis D. Moyer. EMMANUELS, SOUDERTON IN 1753, Jacob Leidy, having secured a tract of landin Franconia township, then in PhiladelphiaCounty, set aside a plot of his farm for the burial ofthe dead of his own family. Owing to the distancesto the cemeteries of the older churches this soon be-came the common burial place for the people of Fran-conia and Hilltown townships, Montgomery 1780 this farm together with this burial plot wasconveyed to Jacob Leidy the third. In 1795 theheads of the families who had buried their dead atthis place or who intended to do so, formed themselvesinto an association. In August of the same year, fora nominal sum of money, he deeded this graveyardplot of his farm to this association, of which JohnAlthouse of Franconia township and Abraham Copeof Hilltown township acted as trustees. Thus theOld Leidys Graveyard became a public burial Leidys were members of the German NORRISTOWN CONFERENCE 223 About the same time as this burial place was putinto the care aiid control of the community, effortswere put forth to make better provision for the educa-tion of the living, by erecting a school house on thesame plot. It was a small one story stone building andfor more than a quarter of a century served the needsof the community in the education of the young. Dur-ing inclement weather it was also used for funeralpurposes. In 1827 this building was enlarged so that,as occasion demanded, public services could be heldfor the worship of Almighty God. In 1853 the firstSunday school in this section of the country wasstarted. With the Sunday school came the demandfor increased amount of services for public consequence the trustees and others of the abovenamed association assembled in the school house toconsider this matter. At this meeting Thomas Leidytendered a plot of ground adjoining the Old Grave-yard containing 89 perches
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