Christopher Day Cemetery, Fountainville

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Previously known as:
Cross Keys Cemetery

Also known as:
Day Cemetery

Located in:
Fountainville

Street address:
Swamp Road after Christopher Day, Fountainville, PA

GPS location:
Latitude: 40.34100
Longitude: -75.14400

Ownership
defunct - private property

Burial summary
Number of burials: 8 +-
First burial: 1748
Last burial: 1815

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.

The Mercer Museum library has the following: Doylestown, Plumstead & Solebury Townships cemetery transcriptions & church records. Doylestown, Pa. : Bucks County Historical Society, n.d. [122] p. : illus., maps ; 28 cm. Call No. 974.821 Chu Solebury. Book 14.

Click here to view the "Historical Research and Ground Penetrating Radar Survey" from March 2006.


Comments
Per Findagrave: Location is on "HIGHLAND HILL FARM", a nursery as of 2014. from "History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania" by J.H. Battle (1887) p572: The only burial-ground in the township prior to 1730 of which traces yet remain is situated on the Swamp road a mile above Cross Keys, in the corner of the tract that Christopher Day bought of Clement Dungan in 1708. In his will, proved March 25, 1748, he gave ten perches square for a graveyard forever. The five stones bearing inscriptions are those of Christopher Day, March 6, 1748; C. Day, 1763; J. Morlen, 1749—50; Abraham Fried, December 21, 1772; William Daves, February 22, 1815. The graveyard, which once had a stone for Christopher Day, was located at the top of a hill, east of the village of Fountainville, on the northeast side of Swamp Road (PA Route 313), which is the southern border of Plumstead Township, Bucks County, PA. -Our Pioneer Ancestors: The Day and Hendrix (cks) Families with Poe and Allied Lines, by Ruth Hendricks Deverter "Also my will is that ten perches square of my land bounded Northward by the land of Cephas Child and my other land and and Southward by the same and the Road called the Street containing 100 perches of land be and remain for the use of a burying place for ever and for no other purpose whatsoever". The headstones are no longer visible.


Thanks to volunteer Peg Felter for gathering information on this cemetery



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