Rowland Burial Ground, Fairless Hills
Also known as:
Old Watson Graveyard at Oxford
Located in:
Fairless Hills
Street address:
Coventry & Oxford Valley Rd., Fairless Hills, PA 19030
GPS location:
Latitude: 40.176980
Longitude: -74.863442
Longitude: -74.863442
Ownership
abandoned
Burial summary
Number of burials: 20 +
First burial: 1722
Last burial: unknown
First burial: 1722
Last burial: unknown
Contact information:
Web address:
Unknown
Original burial records:
Location unknown
Other references:
A list of gravestone inscriptions is in the BCGS database.
This cemetery is on Findagrave.
This cemetery is on Interment.net.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Bucks County tombstone inscriptions. Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 1963. 61 p. : 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu Vol. 23. Book 9.
Click here to see an original transcription from 1961.
This cemetery is on Findagrave.
This cemetery is on Interment.net.
The Mercer Museum Library has the following: Bucks County tombstone inscriptions. Doylestown, PA : Bucks County Historical Society, 1963. 61 p. : 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu Vol. 23. Book 9.
Click here to see an original transcription from 1961.
Comments
Plaque at Entrance: Est. 1704 by deed. "5 perches square" on the land by first purchasers John Rowland and Priscella Sheppard his wife. Passengers with William Penn on the ship Welcome in 1682.
Thanks to volunteer Joann Cosgrove for gathering information on this cemetery
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