Slate Hill Burial Ground, Lower Makefield Twp
Previously known as:
Old Stone Burying Ground
Also known as:
Old Slate Hill Burial Ground & Ye Slate Hill
Located in:
Lower Makefield Twp
Street address:
Yardley-Morrisville Rd and Mahlon Drive, Yardley, PA 19067
GPS location:
Latitude: 40.23290
Longitude: -74.82690
Longitude: -74.82690
Ownership
Lower Makefield Township
Burial summary
Number of burials: 400+-
First burial: before 1690
Last burial: 1918
First burial: before 1690
Last burial: 1918
Contact information:
Kaaren Steil
Chairman, Lower Makefield Historical Commission
1100 Edgewood Road
Yardley, PA 19067
Phone: 215-493-3646
Email: Kaasteil@verizon.net
Chairman, Lower Makefield Historical Commission
1100 Edgewood Road
Yardley, PA 19067
Phone: 215-493-3646
Email: Kaasteil@verizon.net
Web address:
Original burial records:
Location unknown
Other references:
Click here for the Lower Makefield Historical Commission.
Headstone transcriptions are on Pennsylvania Gravestones.
This cemetery is on Findagrave.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Bucks County Pennsylvania cemeteries. s.l. : s.n., n.d. 182 p. ; 28 cm. Call No.974.821 Chu Vol. 25. Book 4. Ye Slate Hill Lower Bucks County church and cemetery records ...Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Hist. Soc., 2005. 1 v. (various pagings); 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu v.47. Book 20.
Click here for the Lower Makefield Historical Society.
Click here for a history of Slate Hill from the National Park Service.
A partial transcription of this cemetery was made by the old Bucks County Genealogical Society.
Headstone transcriptions are on Pennsylvania Gravestones.
This cemetery is on Findagrave.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Bucks County Pennsylvania cemeteries. s.l. : s.n., n.d. 182 p. ; 28 cm. Call No.974.821 Chu Vol. 25. Book 4. Ye Slate Hill Lower Bucks County church and cemetery records ...Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Hist. Soc., 2005. 1 v. (various pagings); 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu v.47. Book 20.
Click here for the Lower Makefield Historical Society.
Click here for a history of Slate Hill from the National Park Service.
A partial transcription of this cemetery was made by the old Bucks County Genealogical Society.
Comments
This is possibly the oldest graveyard in Bucks County. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. There are 6 African American Civil War soldiers who served with the North buried here. It is adjacent to Lower Makefield Public Burying Ground.
The following is a brief history. The cemetery was formed on the same day as the Falls cemetery, by the Falls Meeting of Friends. Land was donated by Thomas Janney in 1690, and since it was at a corner, it had already been used by his family to bury friends and family. This ground was for those who lived in the upper plantations and the Friends Meeting stipulated it would also be open to strangers, a public cemetery. In 1721, Abel Janney was granted a second portion, and Joshua Anderson was granted a third section in 1788, that was reserved for those called "colored." That section is euphemistically known as the segregated section. The other two thirds has many non-Quakers, and even had a section bordered with rails that was consecrated Catholic burial space before they bought a graveyard along the river. It has the oldest recorded stone in Bucks County, Jonathon Sharp.
Thanks to volunteer Joann Cosgrove for gathering information on this cemetery
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