History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . <%^ 7. ^^OX/zd^^:^^^. PERKY TOWNSHIP. 721 none now living remember its erection. Adjoiningtlie site of this old meeting-house, and also adjoininglands of S. Strickler, T. Shepard, and heirs of Benja-min Brown, is the old Quaker burial-ground, sur-rounded by a substantial iron fence, and kept in goodcondition by a small fund donated by some one of theQuaker sect for the purpose. In this old cemetery-ground lie interred the remains of many of the earlyFriends and other settlers of
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . <%^ 7. ^^OX/zd^^:^^^. PERKY TOWNSHIP. 721 none now living remember its erection. Adjoiningtlie site of this old meeting-house, and also adjoininglands of S. Strickler, T. Shepard, and heirs of Benja-min Brown, is the old Quaker burial-ground, sur-rounded by a substantial iron fence, and kept in goodcondition by a small fund donated by some one of theQuaker sect for the purpose. In this old cemetery-ground lie interred the remains of many of the earlyFriends and other settlers of the vicinity,—JonathanHewitt, John Shreve, Joseph Shreve, Samuel Cope,Joshua Cope, Isaac Cope, John Negus, Joseph Negus,Joseph Shepard, William Nutt, Jesse Couldron, Wil-liam Griffith, and many others. With the exceptionof this old ground the places of interment of thosewho died in Perry township in early years were uponthe farms. In Perryopolis a burial-ground was established onthe land of the Methodist Episcopal Church, butburials are now chiefly made in the Mount Washing-ton Cemetery, which was laid out on land takeu forthe pu
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