Old School Baptist Meetinghouse

Southampton Baptist Meeting Burials

1. Rachel Dungan
2. Susarnch? Thomas
3. Elizabeth Bato?nin
4. Elizabeth Hellings
5. Rebeckah Humphrys
6. Mary Newman
7. Ann Potts
8. Sarah Stephens
9. Elizabeth Morforo
10. Mary Parry, a Negroe
11. Sarah Neefty
12. Lucy Chamberlin
13. Joanna Gilbert
14. Eleanor Hart
15. Elizabeth Yerkes
16. Elizabeth Watts
17. Sarah Shan
18. Mary Dungan
19. Grace Morgan
20. Sarah Murray
21. Esther Banes
22. Mary Jones
23. Mary Gilbert
24. Elizabeth Hart
25. Jane Yerkes
26. John Jones
27. Clement Dungan
28. David Dungan
29. James Dungan
30. David Rees
31. Joseph Banes
32. John Batenin
33. Joseph Hart
34. Lewis Rees
35. Isaac Eaton
36. Silas Yerkes
37. Oliver Hart
38. John M. Hellings
39. Thomas Dungan
40. Jeremiah Dungan
41. Thomas Potts
42. Nicholas Gilbert
43. Robert Parsons
44. Samuel Gilbert
45. John Hart Thomas
46. Dungan, Jr.
47. Stephen Watts
48. Joshua Potts
49. ?? Morgan
50. John Eaton
51. John Morforo
52. John Harrison
53. John Shaw 1.
    
    
    1682 John Hart arrives from England
    
    1692 Worship group meets in Southampton Farm Houses
    
    1731 First meeting house built of logs
    
    1772 Stone Meetinghouse erected at the present site
    
    1814 Meetinghouse remodeled as it is at present site
    
    1977 Designated as National Historic Site 1..
    
    1. Three Centuries of History Southampton Pennsylvania (Gus Wiencke).
    
    The meeting house is located on 2nd Street Pike in Southampton PA. and The building remains in it’s original state. Thanksgiving non-denominational services are held each year. The source was written in script and difficult to read, see tombstone inscriptions, for additional names
    
     

    Research notes:

1. Southampton Baptist Church is the oldest in the county and the 7th oldest in the state of Pennsylvania.
2. In 1730 one acre was donated by John Morris for a meeting house and burial ground - plus a farm of 120 (112) acres near County Line Road. The pastor was not paid a salary and had to make a living selling his crops in Philadelphia where he went once a week.
3. The church was founded in 1731 on what was called The Middle Road (Second Street Pike)
4. The church became official April6, 1746 with 46 members
5. Today, the church is only open several times a year for commemorative functions.
6. Maple Avenue was laid out in 1814 to create an access road to the church.
7. In 1833 the pastor received a salary and no longer had to farm to support his family. A parsonage was built closer to the church on the present site of Bethanna.
8. The last elder (any of various church officers) of the church died in 1918 and is buried in the church yard.
9. There is a grave in the rear of the church - the Reverand John Watts - he is really buried at Cold Spring, hear Bristol. This Gravestone is to mark the respect the church had for his memory.
10. Twenty three men who served in the revolutionary War are buried here.
    

    John Addis	Died 1818 age 62
    Enoch Addis	Died 1830 age 71
    Matthew Banes	Died 1788 age 63
    Thomas Beans	Died 1824 age 71
    Benjamin Corson	Died 1811 age 69
    John Dungan	Died 1798 age 45
    Joseph Dungan	Died 1810 age 58
    Thomas Dungan	Died 1811 age 60
    John Folwell (CAPT)	Died 1808 age 66
    Thomas Folwell	Died 1813 age 76
    Joseph Hart (COL)	Died 1788 age 72
    Isaac Hough	Died 1786 age 61
    Benjamin Jones	Died 1797 age 49
    David Marple	Died 1829 age 54
    James McNeal	Died 1821 age 72
    Joseph Miller	Died 1807 age 75
    John Perkins	Died 1838 age 84
    Jonathan Potts	Died 1840 age 81
    Evan Thomas	Died 1810 age 75
    John Thomas	Died 1806 age 77
    Lambert Vandike	Died 1811 age 61
    Arthur Watts	Died 1809 age 78
    Stephen Watts	Died 1794 age 84

    
    
    
11. There are nineteen Civil War Veterans buried at the graveyard adjoining Southampton Baptist Church.
    John Davis' tombstone inscription reads. "He served his country in the field and in congress." He died April 1, 1878 (Davisville was named after the Davis family)
    
    Five were killed during the war years.
    
    Edwin R. Blaker, age 34
    James M. Hart
    Jonathan Hellings, age 33
    Comly Jones, age 22
    Howard H. Terry, age 22
12. In 1978 the property was placed on the National Register (The official list of cultural resources).
13. Among those members of the First Board of Trustee's that are buried here:
    Arthur watts, 1809 age 78
    Thomas Folwell, 1813 age 76
    Captain John Folwell, 1808 age 66
    Colonel Joseph Hart, 1788 age 72