Trinity Lutheran Church Yard "Germantown"

Historic Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse

Photography by me. Click on link for more information.

http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/upper/mennonite.htm

Germantown Meetinghouse Church Of The Brethren

In order to enter the cemetery, we had to walk down through these gates and into the tunnel under this building. Thankfully, the grounds keeper unlocked those gates for us.
The Cemetery: In 1793 the area behind the meetinghouse was designated as a cemetery for members of the congregation. This action was prompted by a yellow fever epidemic which struck Philadelphia that year. Over 1000 people are buried in the cemetery including several Brethren leaders, such as Alexander Mack, Sr. (1679-1735), Alexander Mack, Jr. (1712-1803), and his wife Elizabeth Nice (1726-1811), Peter Keyser (1766-1849) and his wife Catherine Clemens (1770-1854), Louis S. Bauman (1875-1950), and Jacob C. Cassel (1849-1919).

Many soldiers of the Revolutionary War are buried in the Brethren cemetery. In the immediate foreground is the grave of Harriet Livermore, the Pilgrim Stranger in Longfellow's "Snowbound"







This is some sort of tent placed over the old weathered stone for protection. I never seen this used before and I have been in about one hundred cemeteries, church grave yards.

Photography by me. For more information click the link.

http://www.brethren.org/genbd/bhla/GermantownMeetinghouse.html