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PIGEON CREEK UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY Page 4
Washington Co. Pa
Contributed by Liz DuBois
See PIGEON CREEK UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY OLD SECTION
| PIGEON CREEK UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY (near near Eighty-Four PA, Washington. County, Pa.) The first minutes of the Pigeon Creek U. P. Church were burned with the house of the Clerk of Session and the following has been given from the oldest members of the Congregation. Applications were made and granted for the people to form a church in 1816. They erected a tent with a platform for the preacher, with a cover which he occupied during services. It was known as “Hall’s Tent”. After that services were held in Mr. Hall’s house, making the date of the first church about 1818. Elders were elected Nov. 11, 1817 and were ordained April 7, 1818 - - William Pollock and Mr. Adam Weir. The church was organized and the place for erection was on Mr. Hall’s farm, where the graveyard now is. But it was necessary to get the permission of Presbytery for their location. There were difficulties as Rev. Dr. Ramsey at the Chartiers and the organization in Washington considered it too close to their churches for the good of the community, with a sparse population they would be “Too thick to thrive”. But finally after much litigation they were permitted to build a log house, 1819 and in 1838 a brick Church 60x50 feet was built to cost $2500. The present church [1938] was built in 1871 to cost $18,000 - - a beautiful edifice. The Church and graveyard are kept in fine condition. |
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CEMETERY CENSUS READINGS: (page 4)
| NAME | BIRTH | DEATH | AGE | Also on Stone |
| Henry, Nicholas | ____ | May 24, 1835 | 47 | |
| Henry, Margaret | ____ | Aug 18, 1862 | 64 | |
| Henry, Joseph Sr. | ____ | Jun 6, 1854 | 29 | |
| Henry, Lewis | ____ | May 24, 1864 | 39* | Co.C.140th Regt Pa. Vol. |
| Nesbitt, James | ____ | Aug 2, 1854 | 24 | (son) |
| Nesbitt, John | ____ | Apr 27, 1861 | 61 | |
| Nesbitt, Ruth | Oct 18, 1806 | Apr 3, 1887 | 81 | (wf John) |
| Nesbitt, Eleanor | ____ | Oct 22, 1836 | 30 | |
| Martin, James | May 12, 1792 | Jun 20, 1880 | 88 | |
| Martin, Mary White | April 19, 1800 | Nov 8, 1878 | 78 | (wf Jas) |
| Martin, Mary J. | 1832 | 1856 | 24 | |
| Martin, E. H. | 1834 | 1864 | 30* | (Drowned in Appomatix River while serving his country) |
| Barr, Mary Gibson | ____ | May 12, 1855 | (?) | (wf John S.) |
| Boyd, Rev. Bankhead | ____ | Apr 3, 1860 | 51 | Pastor U. P. Church |
| Boyd, Margaret | ____ | Sep 19, 1850 | 38 | (wf Rev. Bankhead Boyd) |
| Boyd, Rev. Hugh W. | ____ | Jun 12, 1869 | 29 | (licensed to preach the Gospel Apr. 19, 1868) |
| Boyd, Lizzie S. | ____ | Jul 2, 1868 | 21 | |
| Boyd, James T. | ____ | Dec 22, 1861 | 19 | |
| Boyd, Wilson | 1800 | 1870 | 70 | |
| Boyd, Jane | 1814 | 1898 | 84 | (wf Wilson) |
| Donalson, William | ____ | Aug 4, 1875 | 82 | |
| Donalson, Eleanor Orr (wf William) | ____ | Oct 6, 1863 | 70 | |
| Donalson, Eleanor Orr | ____ | Mch 18, 1812 | 20 | “Virgins much, to much, presume On your boasted white and red, View her late in beauty blooming, Numbered now among the dead.” |
| Myers, Stephen | ____ | Dec 9, 1875 | 70 | |
| Myers, Lucia (wf Stephen) | ____ | Sep 27, 1888 | 75 | |
| Boyd, Mary Jane | ____ | May 27, 1871 | 19 | |
| Boyd, Robert | ____ | Dec 8, 1850 | 53 | |
| Boyd, Sarah Margaret | ____ | Mch 2, 1869 | 21 | |
| Boyd, Robert W. | ____ | Jan 17, 1873 | 19 | (son) W&J College |
| Boyd, Elizabeth | ____ | Jan 19, 1842 | 72 | (wf Hugh) |
| Boyd, Hugh | ____ | Sep 2, 1851 | 95 | |
| Boyd, Margaret | ____ | Jan 10, 1834 | 82 | |
| McMurray, John | 1831 | 1908 | 77 | |
| McMurray, Jane H. | 1821 | 1872 | 51 | (wf John) |
| Rankin, R. W. | ____ | May 2, 1872 | 31 | |
| McMurray, James | ____ | Apr 15, 1875 | 79 | |
| McMurray, Catherine | ____ | Nov 26, 1867 | 62 | (Wf James) |
| McMurray, Tillie | ____ | Dec 27, 1877 | 31 | (wf James) |
| McNary, James S. | Oct 27, 1851 | Aug 14, 1898 | 47 | |
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