East Swamp Mennonite Cemetery, Quakertown
Also known as:
Our Forefathers Cemetery
Located in:
Quakertown (Milford)
Street address:
2405 E. Swamp Rd., Quakertown, PA 18951
GPS location:
Latitude: 40.45450
Longitude: -75.38280
Longitude: -75.38280
Ownership
East Swamp Mennonite Church
Burial summary
Number of burials: Unknown
First burial: 1748
Last burial: ongoing
First burial: 1748
Last burial: ongoing
Contact information:
Church Office Administrator
2405 E. Swamp Road
Quakertown, PA 18951
Phone: 215-536-4532
Email: office@eastswamp.org
Web address:
Original burial records:
At church
Other references:
A list of gravestone inscriptions is in the BCGS database.
Gravestone inscriptions for this cemetery are at Pennsylvania Gravestones.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Milford Township Bucks County, Pennsylvania church and cemetery records. Doylestown : Bucks County Historical Society, 1997. [143] p. ; 29 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu Milford. Book 23.
This cemetery can be found on Findagrave.
Additional inquiries can be made by contacting the Mennonite Heritage Center.
Click here to see an original transcription of the oldest part of "Our Forefathers Cemetery" 1724-1905. The names are in our database.
Click here to see a letter dated 11/21/1994 to the pastor of East Swamp Mennonite Church regarding a transcription from 1970 and containing other interesting information. The transcription is in our database.
You can go to the Mennonite Historical Society database and search for your ancestor. Just use the alphabetical surname list.
Gravestone inscriptions for this cemetery are at Pennsylvania Gravestones.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Milford Township Bucks County, Pennsylvania church and cemetery records. Doylestown : Bucks County Historical Society, 1997. [143] p. ; 29 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu Milford. Book 23.
This cemetery can be found on Findagrave.
Additional inquiries can be made by contacting the Mennonite Heritage Center.
Click here to see an original transcription of the oldest part of "Our Forefathers Cemetery" 1724-1905. The names are in our database.
Click here to see a letter dated 11/21/1994 to the pastor of East Swamp Mennonite Church regarding a transcription from 1970 and containing other interesting information. The transcription is in our database.
You can go to the Mennonite Historical Society database and search for your ancestor. Just use the alphabetical surname list.
Comments
An interesting tid-bit about this cemetery is the location of the headstones. In most cemeteries, when you look at the headstone, you are standing on the person and reading the headstone. In this cemetery, when you look at the headstone, the person is buried BEHIND the headstone. So, really, the headstone acts as a foot stone. Also, a major change is that the cemetery removed the "Our Forefather's Cemetery Arch" and the stone wall that surrounded part of the cemetery.
Thanks to volunteer Eve Puhalla for gathering information on this cemetery
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