Crooks Cemetery
Scenery Hill, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania 15360 United StatesCoordinates: 40.09451, -80.05569 - Cemetery ID:
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go 8/10ths mile north from Scenery Hill on Fava Farm Rd. As you round the second corner that goes right you will see a two and a half story farmhouse on the right. Pull in the drive and ask permission to visit the cemetery. The cemetery is East of the house behind a large tree with a wooden fence around it. Some of the bricks from the church are still visible. There are probably some unmarked graves under grass field.
In the year 1797 measures were taken by the earliest religious society known in West Bethlehem township toward erecting a house for worship. This was known as the "Redstone" (Lutheran) church, and was built upon land purchased of Thomas Crooks for that purpose. The trustees of the society were Joshua Davis, Leonard Roberts, William Allen, John Welch, Thomas Richardson, and James Eaton, who, on July 11, 1797, purchased of Thomas Crooks a piece of land containing one rood and thirty-seven perches, "situate on the Redstone road," for which they paid a consideration of five shillings on that date. A proviso in the contract granted to those attending church the privilege of passing to and from a spring on other land of Mr. Crooks. This church was built under the charge and supervision of Rev. Joseph Doddridge, and was located about a half a mile below (north) the site of the village of Hillsborough. (Scenery Hill) It was entirely abandoned many years ago The graveyard in connection with this church is called the Crooks Graveyard. It was originally well laid out and cared for, but is now unfenced and neglected. In passing through it one sees that the first interments date back more than eighty years. (from 1882) From the inscription it is seen that Judith Parr died in October, 1802, aged seventy-nine years: Col. Thomas Crooks died Feb, 25, 1815, past eighty years of age: Judith Crooks died April 30, 1823, nearly eighty-four years of age; Henry Huntsbury died Feb. 7, 1830, seventy years old.
*Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882).
Please thank the Alisa Fava-Fasnacht & Alan J Fasnacht family that owns the land for their dedication to keeping the cemetery in existence, the flag pole, and the old fashion wood fence. http://emeraldvalleyartisans.com/
go 8/10ths mile north from Scenery Hill on Fava Farm Rd. As you round the second corner that goes right you will see a two and a half story farmhouse on the right. Pull in the drive and ask permission to visit the cemetery. The cemetery is East of the house behind a large tree with a wooden fence around it. Some of the bricks from the church are still visible. There are probably some unmarked graves under grass field.
In the year 1797 measures were taken by the earliest religious society known in West Bethlehem township toward erecting a house for worship. This was known as the "Redstone" (Lutheran) church, and was built upon land purchased of Thomas Crooks for that purpose. The trustees of the society were Joshua Davis, Leonard Roberts, William Allen, John Welch, Thomas Richardson, and James Eaton, who, on July 11, 1797, purchased of Thomas Crooks a piece of land containing one rood and thirty-seven perches, "situate on the Redstone road," for which they paid a consideration of five shillings on that date. A proviso in the contract granted to those attending church the privilege of passing to and from a spring on other land of Mr. Crooks. This church was built under the charge and supervision of Rev. Joseph Doddridge, and was located about a half a mile below (north) the site of the village of Hillsborough. (Scenery Hill) It was entirely abandoned many years ago The graveyard in connection with this church is called the Crooks Graveyard. It was originally well laid out and cared for, but is now unfenced and neglected. In passing through it one sees that the first interments date back more than eighty years. (from 1882) From the inscription it is seen that Judith Parr died in October, 1802, aged seventy-nine years: Col. Thomas Crooks died Feb, 25, 1815, past eighty years of age: Judith Crooks died April 30, 1823, nearly eighty-four years of age; Henry Huntsbury died Feb. 7, 1830, seventy years old.
*Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882).
Please thank the Alisa Fava-Fasnacht & Alan J Fasnacht family that owns the land for their dedication to keeping the cemetery in existence, the flag pole, and the old fashion wood fence. http://emeraldvalleyartisans.com/
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- Added: 4 Oct 2013
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2515009
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