The Old Union Cemetery, Upper Mt. Bethel Township Northampton Co., Pa. Dec 2021

The Old Union Cemetery at Stone Church  is located in Upper Mount Bethel Township  Northampton County Pennsylvania.  The Cemetery grounds are maintained by a  board of directors representing the two churches  to which this burial ground has always belonged.  These churches are  Trinity United Church of Christ you can see it  in my photo.  The Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church  which is across the street can be seen in  the cemetery pictures.      The congregations of both churches  the German Evangelical Lutheran and the German Evangelical reformed  worshiped in the same building in the village of Stone Church  also known as Centerville. Early records refer to the old Union Cemetery  as Christ Church Cemetery because the congregations of both  denominations were known as Christ reformed and Christ Lutheran.      The original Church a stone  structure was located in the middle  of the now existing Cemetery.  The Stone Church thus the name  of the present-day community  was removed when in 1832 a  new brick building was erected  and occupied today by the  Trinity UCC congregation.  The congregations both worshiped in the  new building until 1910 when Christ Evangelical Lutheran congregation  built a new church located across the street from the cemetery. There are at least 769 Graves well over 200 years old many of those Graves  have been lost to time many are written in German. The earliest burial is of  Anne-Marie Goetthardt Correll died on August 8 1794. The last known burial of  Sarah Dildine 1909.      What makes this Cemetery  so important to history  it's the resting place of 26 known  revolutionary war  soldiers at least two who served  in the war of 1812 and 4 civil war  veterans. When the old church was removed  the empty space in the middle of  the cemetery was used for burials at  some point in time gravestones that  had been removed from their proper  gravesites were uprighted to the  middle of the vacant area  " to make the cemetery look good"  SO, while stones may be erected  they may not be the actual place  of burial. ReplyForward

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Thanks to Cynthia H. Smithy for the information