Gibbs Burial Ground, Bensalem

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Also known as:
Rodman Burial Ground

Located in:
Bensalem

Street address:
3436 Bristol Pike, Bensalem, PA 19020

GPS location:
Latitude: 40.090483
Longitude: -74.926758

Ownership
Maintained by the Historical Society of Bensalem

Burial summary
Number of burials: 14
First burial: 1795
Last burial: 1838

Contact information:


Web address:
Unknown

Original burial records:
Location unknown

Other references:
A list of gravestone inscriptions is in the BCGS database.

Entries in our database were taken from "A Compilation of Bensalem Cemeteries" by Sally VanSant Sondesky, donated to BCGS by the author. Click here to view the entire document.

The Bensalem Historical Society has information on this cemetery.

This cemetery is on Findagrave.

The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Bucks County tombstone inscriptions Bensalem Township / transcriptions by Sally Sondesky, Hazel Lamon. Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 1997. Various pagings : maps ; 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Cem Bens. Book 6

Click here to view or download a map showing the location of all of the Bensalem cemeteries.


Comments
Richard Gibbs’ 250 acre farm was named Eddington. He was a teacher, clerk and sheriff in Bucks County. He helped finance the Revolutionary War and died penniless. The cemetery was so badly vandalized it was buried. In 2005, the Bensalem Historical Society reassembled the broken headstones and placed them on concrete slabs and built a bench from the homes' bricks. The cemetery is on the property of the St. Francis-St. Joseph Home for Children and is adjacent to their cemetery.


Thanks to volunteer Peg Felter for gathering information on this cemetery



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