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from History
of Mercer County, 1877, pages 45 - 46
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Moorfield
Church and Cemetery. - - Moorfield Cemetery was
originally laid out around old Moorfield hewed-log church, as early as
1808. Samuel Stokely, who owned large
tracts of land in the vicinity, donated five acres for a church and
burying-ground. The first ruling elders were: William
Welch, William Campbell and John Moore.
The church and cemetery were named after the latter gentleman, who
settled about 1800, on the State road, a little east of "Hickory
Corners." This church was first located at what is know as
the "old stone still-house," at what is known as the
Strawbridge coal bank, as early as 1802.
The old cemetery was not laid out with any particular regard to
regularity and interments were made as suited the fancy of the
friends. For many years, the ground was in a rather neglected
condition. On the 18th of April 1853, the "Moorfield Cemetery
Association" was chartered by the Legislature. The original
corporators were: Hon. M.C. Trout,
president; James Campbell, secretary, J.
B. Haren, Hugh Love, J.W. Ormsby, John Welch, Andrew Schilling, Henry
Hofius, Esq., Rev. James Satterfield, General James Peirce
[Pierce] and Benjamin Love.
The ground was re-surveyed and platted in April, 1874.
The present officers [1877] are: Hon.
David Robison, president; G. C. Hofius,
secretary; J. S. Trout, treasurer; John
Welch, Andrew Shilling, and James Satterfield.
This old burying-place is among the very oldest and most noted in
Mercer County, particularly on account of the very old people and
prominent pioneers who are interred here. |
