Chestnut Level 
Presbyterian Church Cemetery

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CHESTNUT LEVEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1068 CHESTNUT LEVEL ROAD
QUARRYVILLE, DRUMORE TOWNSHIP
LANCASTER COUNTY,  PENNSYLVANIA

 

Transcribed/contributed by Bill Bigham

Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church is located at the intersection of Chestnut Level and River Roads west of Pennsylvania Highway 272 in the southern part of Lancaster County, near Hensel, about 8 miles north of the PA/MD state line.

According to Egle and others the church was organized ca 1719.

A note to tell you why I am interested in this cemetery. At least two of the five Bigham families of early Mecklenburg Co.,NC are believed to have come from PA. One family was a group of stone cutters who left over 800 known tombstones scattered from PA to Charleston, SC. Some of their stones are at Chestnut Level and other Lancaster cemeteries. I'm trying to make the genealogical connection between the Bighams and other families.

Dr. Dan Patterson, UNC-Chapel Hill, is writing a book on the tombstones as one of the most outstanding examples of Irish folkart in the colonial period. Dan has already published a number of articles and made a trip to Ireland last summer.

 PARTIAL LISTING OF CEMETERY

 

LAST       FIRST       MIDDLE     BIRTH   DEATH AGE           
Ankoun   Samuel     JUL 14 1772 37 yr
Baily Elizabeth     Jul 18 1822 14 yr
  dau. of William & Isabela Stulo
Baxter Andrew     Aug 1757 17 mo
Baxter Elizabeth     Sep 15 1769 15 yr
Baxter Jean     Sep 1768 70 yr
Baxter John     Nov 24 1769 90 yr
Baxter Matthew     Aug 1757  3 yr 6 mo
Baxter William     Apr 24 1750 29 yr
Baxter William     Aug 1757  5 yr 6 mo
Bigham David     Aug 18 1759 50 yr
Bigham Margaret     Jan 3 1800 75 yr
Bigham Samuel     Sep 18 1742 34 yr
Boyd Dometri     Jun 29 1746 15 yr
Boyd John   Dec 19 1736 May 28 1807  
Boyd Mary     Oct 4 1821  
  wife of John Boyd
Boyd Thomas     Sep 1 1768 76 yr
Brotherton Nicholas     Aug 9 1757 63 yr
Buchanan Arthur     Apr 6 1766 26 yr
Buchanan Arthur     Jan 23 1806 32 yr
Buchanan James     Nov 26 1774 70 yr
Buchanan John     Aug 10 1851 85 yr
Buchanan John     Oct 27 1748 23 yr
Buchanan John     Oct 27 1784 23 yr
Buchanan Mary     Jan 1815 78 yr
Caldwell Andrew     Mar 11 1808 74 yr
Caldwell John     Jun 12 1812 76 yr
Calhoun Elizabeth     May 8 1812 64 yr
  dau. of James & Elizabeth Calhoun
Calhoun Elizabeth     1785 64 yr
  wife of James Calhoun
Calhoun James     1772 78 yr
  husband of Elizabeth Calhoun
Calhoun James     May 5 1823 66 yr
  husband of Margaret Calhoun
Calhoun Margaret     Apr 27 1822 60yr
  wife of James Calhoun
Calhoun William     Jan 3 1825 76 yr
  son of James & Elizabeth Calhoun
Campbell Jane     Jan 3 1805  
Campbell Patrick     Feb 14 1817 75 yr
Carson Patrick     Nov 12 1767 84 yr
Clark Elizabeth     Mar 30 1769 67 yr
  wife of John Clark
Clark John     Nov 8 1776  
  son of Thomas & Margaret Clark
Clark John     Jan 17 1753 52 yr
  husband of Elizabeth Clark
Clark Margaret     May 5 1764 47 yr
Devin William     Apr 10 1822 26yr 7m19d
Dickson Hannah     Jan 3 1746  
Green Edward     Dec 3 1757 58 yr
Gryder Anna     Jul 14 1807 54 yr
Gryder Jacob     Jan 10 1814 71 yr
Harrow Mary     Jan 1740 40 yr
Hill John     Feb 2 1747 63 yr
Holins John     May 9 1808  3 yr 6d
Hud Martha     Mar 3 1760 62 yr
Irwin Hannah     Jun 1 1795 66 yr
  consort of Moses Irwin, Esq.
Irwin Moses     Oct 14 1805 83 yr
Larmon Jane     Aug 1746  
  child of James Larmon
Larmon Margaret     Aug 1746  
  child of James Larmon
Latta Mary     Feb 22 1810 66 yr
  wife of Rev. Dr. James Latta
Latta RevDr James      Jan 28 1807 68 yr
Long Henry     Aug 13 1776 13 yr
Long Hugh     Sep 26 1811 40 yr
Long James     Nov 22 1803 69 yr
Long John Grider   Nov 28 1837  3 yr 8 mo
  son of John & Ann E. Long
Long Morris     Oct 15 1814 21 yr 7 mo
  son of Hugh & Ann Long
Long Robert     1806 63 yr
Marshall Jane     Dec 25 1772 58 yr
Marshall John     Jan 6 1771 87 yr
Mather James   Jul 1747 Sep 9 1760  
  son of James & Margaret Mather
Maxwell Robert     Aug 6 1752 39 yr
McAntire Mary     Nov 10 1803 77 yr
McAntire William     Jul 1 1803 84 yr
McCaully Mary     Jun 29 1761 60 yr
McCrabb Judith     Mar 22 1809 44 yr
McCrabb Mary     Oct 13 1800 18 yr
McElroy Margaret     Nov 9 1758 70 yr
McMillan James     Sep 27 1758 2 yr
McMillan John     Sep 27 1758 8 yr
McMillan Margaret     Jul 27 1758 10 yr
McPherson Elizabeth Shaub   1726 36 yr
  wife of William McPherson
McPherson James     Mar 1821 21 yr
  son of William & Elizabeth McPherson
McPherson Martha Long   Jul 8 1822  
  wife of James McPherson
McPherson William     Oct 5 1788 85 yr
Montgomery Joshua     Feb 7 1742 65 yr
Patterson Rosanna     Apr 5 1769 31 yr
Porter Robert     Dec 20 1741 52 yr
Reed Elizabeth     Aug 20 1771 33 yr
Reid George     Sep 21 1789 61 yr
Reid Margaret        
  dau. of George & Mary Reid
Reid Mary     Oct 8 1784 61 yr
  wife of George Reid
Reid Thomas        
  son of George & Mary Reid
Richey Jane     Mar 1 1771 70 yr
Robison David     Oct 16 1746 84 yr
Robison Jean     Aug 2 1741 10 yr
Robison John     Jan 12 1734 60 yr
Robison Mary     Jan 9 1753 58 yr
Roger James     Nov 18 1743 33 yr
Scott Agnes     Oct 16 1756 55 yr
Scott Matthew     Oct 7 1736 52 yr
Shippen Anna M. Jul 18 1814 Jul 11 1861  
Shippen Elizabeth   Apr 12 1800 Dec 20 1886  
Shippen John Galloway Jun 30 1809 Aug 24 1889  
Shippen Joseph   Jul 18 1814 May 27 1840  
Shippen Priscilla Thompson Oct  1 1770 Sep 17 1834  
Shippen Robert   Jul 10 1769 Dec 31 1840  
Shippen Thomas   Feb 4 1804 Mar 19 1891  
Smith Agnes     Apr 28 1789 61 yr
Smith Rev.Sampson     Aug 8 1781  
Snodgrass Alexander     May 12 1758 45 yr
Snodgrass James     Sep 28 1744 23 yr
Stewart James     Mar 9 1756 54 yr
Stulo Elizabeth     Oct 9 1826 71 yr11mo25d
  wife of William Stulo
Stulo Elizabeth     Oct 20 1747 20 mo
  child of William & Rachel Stulo
Stulo Joseph     Aug 8 1771  3 yr 20 d
  child of William & Rachel Stulo
Stulo Leah     Jul 7 1758  3 yr 1 mo
  child of William & Rachel Stulo
Stulo Mary     Sep 9 1764 21 mo
  child of William & Rachel Stulo
Stulo Rachel     Apr 8 1798 72 yr
  widow of William Stulo
Stulo Robert     Feb 2 1756 57 yr
Stulo Robert Bailey   Apr 24 1795  8 yr 8mo 20d
  son of William & Elizabeth Stulo
Stulo Samuel     Aug 28 1764  4 yr 8d
  child of William & Rachel Stulo
Stulo William     Oct 23 1780 73 yr
  husband of Rachel Stulo
Stulo William     May 4 1822 71 yr 9 mo 3d
Whony Samuel     Jul 1 1779 19 mo
Wilson John     May 6 1812 94 yr
Wilson Thomas     Apr 1747 50 yr
 

Contributed by Bill Bigham for use by the Lancaster County Genealogy Project (http://www.pa-roots.com/~lancaster/)

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