Chestnut Level
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
1068 CHESTNUT LEVEL ROAD
QUARRYVILLE, DRUMORE TOWNSHIP
LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
Transcribed/contributed by Bill Bigham
Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church is located at the intersection of Chestnut Level and River Roads west of Pennsylvania Highway 272 in the southern part of Lancaster County, near Hensel, about 8 miles north of the PA/MD state line.
According to Egle and others the church was organized ca 1719.
A note to tell you why I am interested in this cemetery. At least two of the five Bigham families of early Mecklenburg Co.,NC are believed to have come from PA. One family was a group of stone cutters who left over 800 known tombstones scattered from PA to Charleston, SC. Some of their stones are at Chestnut Level and other Lancaster cemeteries. I’m trying to make the genealogical connection between the Bighams and other families.
Dr. Dan Patterson, UNC-Chapel Hill, is writing a book on the tombstones as one of the most outstanding examples of Irish folkart in the colonial period. Dan has already published a number of articles and made a trip to Ireland last summer.
PARTIAL LISTING OF CEMETERY
| LAST | FIRST | MIDDLE | BIRTH | DEATH | AGE |
| Ankoun | Samuel | JUL 14 1772 | 37 yr | ||
| Baily | Elizabeth | Jul 18 1822 | 14 yr | ||
| dau. of William & Isabela Stulo | |||||
| Baxter | Andrew | Aug 1757 | 17 mo | ||
| Baxter | Elizabeth | Sep 15 1769 | 15 yr | ||
| Baxter | Jean | Sep 1768 | 70 yr | ||
| Baxter | John | Nov 24 1769 | 90 yr | ||
| Baxter | Matthew | Aug 1757 | 3 yr 6 mo | ||
| Baxter | William | Apr 24 1750 | 29 yr | ||
| Baxter | William | Aug 1757 | 5 yr 6 mo | ||
| Bigham | David | Aug 18 1759 | 50 yr | ||
| Bigham | Margaret | Jan 3 1800 | 75 yr | ||
| Bigham | Samuel | Sep 18 1742 | 34 yr | ||
| Boyd | Dometri | Jun 29 1746 | 15 yr | ||
| Boyd | John | Dec 19 1736 | May 28 1807 | ||
| Boyd | Mary | Oct 4 1821 | |||
| wife of John Boyd | |||||
| Boyd | Thomas | Sep 1 1768 | 76 yr | ||
| Brotherton | Nicholas | Aug 9 1757 | 63 yr | ||
| Buchanan | Arthur | Apr 6 1766 | 26 yr | ||
| Buchanan | Arthur | Jan 23 1806 | 32 yr | ||
| Buchanan | James | Nov 26 1774 | 70 yr | ||
| Buchanan | John | Aug 10 1851 | 85 yr | ||
| Buchanan | John | Oct 27 1748 | 23 yr | ||
| Buchanan | John | Oct 27 1784 | 23 yr | ||
| Buchanan | Mary | Jan 1815 | 78 yr | ||
| Caldwell | Andrew | Mar 11 1808 | 74 yr | ||
| Caldwell | John | Jun 12 1812 | 76 yr | ||
| Calhoun | Elizabeth | May 8 1812 | 64 yr | ||
| dau. of James & Elizabeth Calhoun | |||||
| Calhoun | Elizabeth | 1785 | 64 yr | ||
| wife of James Calhoun | |||||
| Calhoun | James | 1772 | 78 yr | ||
| husband of Elizabeth Calhoun | |||||
| Calhoun | James | May 5 1823 | 66 yr | ||
| husband of Margaret Calhoun | |||||
| Calhoun | Margaret | Apr 27 1822 | 60yr | ||
| wife of James Calhoun | |||||
| Calhoun | William | Jan 3 1825 | 76 yr | ||
| son of James & Elizabeth Calhoun | |||||
| Campbell | Jane | Jan 3 1805 | |||
| Campbell | Patrick | Feb 14 1817 | 75 yr | ||
| Carson | Patrick | Nov 12 1767 | 84 yr | ||
| Clark | Elizabeth | Mar 30 1769 | 67 yr | ||
| wife of John Clark | |||||
| Clark | John | Nov 8 1776 | |||
| son of Thomas & Margaret Clark | |||||
| Clark | John | Jan 17 1753 | 52 yr | ||
| husband of Elizabeth Clark | |||||
| Clark | Margaret | May 5 1764 | 47 yr | ||
| Devin | William | Apr 10 1822 | 26yr 7m19d | ||
| Dickson | Hannah | Jan 3 1746 | |||
| Green | Edward | Dec 3 1757 | 58 yr | ||
| Gryder | Anna | Jul 14 1807 | 54 yr | ||
| Gryder | Jacob | Jan 10 1814 | 71 yr | ||
| Harrow | Mary | Jan 1740 | 40 yr | ||
| Hill | John | Feb 2 1747 | 63 yr | ||
| Holins | John | May 9 1808 | 3 yr 6d | ||
| Hud | Martha | Mar 3 1760 | 62 yr | ||
| Irwin | Hannah | Jun 1 1795 | 66 yr | ||
| consort of Moses Irwin, Esq. | |||||
| Irwin | Moses | Oct 14 1805 | 83 yr | ||
| Larmon | Jane | Aug 1746 | |||
| child of James Larmon | |||||
| Larmon | Margaret | Aug 1746 | |||
| child of James Larmon | |||||
| Latta | Mary | Feb 22 1810 | 66 yr | ||
| wife of Rev. Dr. James Latta | |||||
| Latta | RevDr James | Jan 28 1807 | 68 yr | ||
| Long | Henry | Aug 13 1776 | 13 yr | ||
| Long | Hugh | Sep 26 1811 | 40 yr | ||
| Long | James | Nov 22 1803 | 69 yr | ||
| Long | John | Grider | Nov 28 1837 | 3 yr 8 mo | |
| son of John & Ann E. Long | |||||
| Long | Morris | Oct 15 1814 | 21 yr 7 mo | ||
| son of Hugh & Ann Long | |||||
| Long | Robert | 1806 | 63 yr | ||
| Marshall | Jane | Dec 25 1772 | 58 yr | ||
| Marshall | John | Jan 6 1771 | 87 yr | ||
| Mather | James | Jul 1747 | Sep 9 1760 | ||
| son of James & Margaret Mather | |||||
| Maxwell | Robert | Aug 6 1752 | 39 yr | ||
| McAntire | Mary | Nov 10 1803 | 77 yr | ||
| McAntire | William | Jul 1 1803 | 84 yr | ||
| McCaully | Mary | Jun 29 1761 | 60 yr | ||
| McCrabb | Judith | Mar 22 1809 | 44 yr | ||
| McCrabb | Mary | Oct 13 1800 | 18 yr | ||
| McElroy | Margaret | Nov 9 1758 | 70 yr | ||
| McMillan | James | Sep 27 1758 | 2 yr | ||
| McMillan | John | Sep 27 1758 | 8 yr | ||
| McMillan | Margaret | Jul 27 1758 | 10 yr | ||
| McPherson | Elizabeth | Shaub | 1726 | 36 yr | |
| wife of William McPherson | |||||
| McPherson | James | Mar 1821 | 21 yr | ||
| son of William & Elizabeth McPherson | |||||
| McPherson | Martha | Long | Jul 8 1822 | ||
| wife of James McPherson | |||||
| McPherson | William | Oct 5 1788 | 85 yr | ||
| Montgomery | Joshua | Feb 7 1742 | 65 yr | ||
| Patterson | Rosanna | Apr 5 1769 | 31 yr | ||
| Porter | Robert | Dec 20 1741 | 52 yr | ||
| Reed | Elizabeth | Aug 20 1771 | 33 yr | ||
| Reid | George | Sep 21 1789 | 61 yr | ||
| Reid | Margaret | ||||
| dau. of George & Mary Reid | |||||
| Reid | Mary | Oct 8 1784 | 61 yr | ||
| wife of George Reid | |||||
| Reid | Thomas | ||||
| son of George & Mary Reid | |||||
| Richey | Jane | Mar 1 1771 | 70 yr | ||
| Robison | David | Oct 16 1746 | 84 yr | ||
| Robison | Jean | Aug 2 1741 | 10 yr | ||
| Robison | John | Jan 12 1734 | 60 yr | ||
| Robison | Mary | Jan 9 1753 | 58 yr | ||
| Roger | James | Nov 18 1743 | 33 yr | ||
| Scott | Agnes | Oct 16 1756 | 55 yr | ||
| Scott | Matthew | Oct 7 1736 | 52 yr | ||
| Shippen | Anna | M. | Jul 18 1814 | Jul 11 1861 | |
| Shippen | Elizabeth | Apr 12 1800 | Dec 20 1886 | ||
| Shippen | John | Galloway | Jun 30 1809 | Aug 24 1889 | |
| Shippen | Joseph | Jul 18 1814 | May 27 1840 | ||
| Shippen | Priscilla | Thompson | Oct 1 1770 | Sep 17 1834 | |
| Shippen | Robert | Jul 10 1769 | Dec 31 1840 | ||
| Shippen | Thomas | Feb 4 1804 | Mar 19 1891 | ||
| Smith | Agnes | Apr 28 1789 | 61 yr | ||
| Smith | Rev.Sampson | Aug 8 1781 | |||
| Snodgrass | Alexander | May 12 1758 | 45 yr | ||
| Snodgrass | James | Sep 28 1744 | 23 yr | ||
| Stewart | James | Mar 9 1756 | 54 yr | ||
| Stulo | Elizabeth | Oct 9 1826 | 71 yr11mo25d | ||
| wife of William Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Elizabeth | Oct 20 1747 | 20 mo | ||
| child of William & Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Joseph | Aug 8 1771 | 3 yr 20 d | ||
| child of William & Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Leah | Jul 7 1758 | 3 yr 1 mo | ||
| child of William & Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Mary | Sep 9 1764 | 21 mo | ||
| child of William & Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Rachel | Apr 8 1798 | 72 yr | ||
| widow of William Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Robert | Feb 2 1756 | 57 yr | ||
| Stulo | Robert | Bailey | Apr 24 1795 | 8 yr 8mo 20d | |
| son of William & Elizabeth Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | Samuel | Aug 28 1764 | 4 yr 8d | ||
| child of William & Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | William | Oct 23 1780 | 73 yr | ||
| husband of Rachel Stulo | |||||
| Stulo | William | May 4 1822 | 71 yr 9 mo 3d | ||
| Whony | Samuel | Jul 1 1779 | 19 mo | ||
| Wilson | John | May 6 1812 | 94 yr | ||
| Wilson | Thomas | Apr 1747 | 50 yr | ||
Contributed by Bill Bigham
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