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This is going to be an interesting post when I get through with it. Here is one entry in his diary:
Friday April 27, 1888; Warm & Clear; Moved J.R. Hixon's 4 children from Stone Church graveyard
Saturday April 28, 1888; Warm & Clear; Put up monument for Hixson's children
Monday April 30, 1888; Opened Mrs J. R. Hixson's grave
Tuesday May1, 1888; Rain & cold; Buried Josephine R. Hixson from vault at Elizabeth
The Old Stone Meeting House mentioned in the diary is located today on the corner of route 519 and Oak Summit Road, it was established in 1754, when Lawrence Hoff, the owner of an adjoining plantation, granted 1 1/4 acreage to James Barcalow, Charles Hoff and Henry Cock, Trustees of Presbyterian Congregation of Kingwood. Mr. Hoff was a member of the Readington Reformed Church until he moved to western Hunterdon County.
The original church was constructed in the grave yard that is presently across Oak Summit Road from the present structure. For a period of 10 days in December of 1778, the Continental Army camped at the church and on surrounding plantations, while transporting British and Hessian prisoners to Virginia. The condition of the original church deteriorated in the years during and after the Revolution, so the Presbyterians built the present structure in 1837, using some of the stones from the old church.
It was vacant for many years, but is now the home of the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Township Kingwood
I will be adding pictures of the diary and some entries as they relate to headstone that stand today in the Frenchtown cemetery. It is so great to have the actual grave digger notes on these burials of bygone days.
Comment only to: robtnar@gmail.com, if you open this and the write message page appears and you ask a question or make a comment and when you press send, it does not work, just copy and paste my email address to your own email service
Under construction
This is going to be an interesting post when I get through with it. Here is one entry in his diary:
Friday April 27, 1888; Warm & Clear; Moved J.R. Hixon's 4 children from Stone Church graveyard
Saturday April 28, 1888; Warm & Clear; Put up monument for Hixson's children
Monday April 30, 1888; Opened Mrs J. R. Hixson's grave
Tuesday May1, 1888; Rain & cold; Buried Josephine R. Hixson from vault at Elizabeth
The Old Stone Meeting House mentioned in the diary is located today on the corner of route 519 and Oak Summit Road, it was established in 1754, when Lawrence Hoff, the owner of an adjoining plantation, granted 1 1/4 acreage to James Barcalow, Charles Hoff and Henry Cock, Trustees of Presbyterian Congregation of Kingwood. Mr. Hoff was a member of the Readington Reformed Church until he moved to western Hunterdon County.
The original church was constructed in the grave yard that is presently across Oak Summit Road from the present structure. For a period of 10 days in December of 1778, the Continental Army camped at the church and on surrounding plantations, while transporting British and Hessian prisoners to Virginia. The condition of the original church deteriorated in the years during and after the Revolution, so the Presbyterians built the present structure in 1837, using some of the stones from the old church.
It was vacant for many years, but is now the home of the First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Township Kingwood
I will be adding pictures of the diary and some entries as they relate to headstone that stand today in the Frenchtown cemetery. It is so great to have the actual grave digger notes on these burials of bygone days.
Comment only to: robtnar@gmail.com, if you open this and the write message page appears and you ask a question or make a comment and when you press send, it does not work, just copy and paste my email address to your own email service
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