Fallowfield Orthodox Friends Burial Ground, Ercildoun, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Fallowfield Orthodox Friends Burial Ground

750 Doe Run Road, Ercildoun, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 19320 USA

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2580188/fallowfield-orthodox-friends-burial-ground

One quarter mile north of Friends Meeting House
Burials listed here May 28 2015 from record of Gerberich Tombstone transcriptions, repository ancestry.com. Other entries must be suspect for accuracy if source is not given.

Though the Great Separation that divided the Quakers in 1828 has long since been ended, in the middle part of the 1800’s, that division caused a fair number of alternative meeting houses to be built for whichever branch did not retain the original meetinghouses and burial grounds. Since the breech has been healed, many of these old meeting houses are now private residences or have long since been torn down after falling into disrepair, leaving behind a number of cemeteries that often go unidentified. Modern day records from the Quakers generally only show the currently active meetings, so finding information about these older burial grounds can be a real challenge.
One such old burial ground belonged to the Orthodox branch of the Friends meeting at Fallowfield, and just to confuse matters more, the area was also called Ercildoun. The meetinghouse has been gone for decades and there are no markings on the gate into the cemetery, enclosed within a sturdy stone wall. Because there is a modern Church of Christ now located on the same corner, it is probably assumed by most that the graveyard belongs to the newer church. history tells us otherwise. The original meetinghouse for the Fallowfield meeting, retained by the Hicksite branch, sits on the southeast corner of the intersection of Rte 82 and Buck Run roads, while the Orthodox portion of the meeting established themselves across the road between Doe Run Road and Wilmington Road.

Latitude: 39.9464954, Longitude: -75.83911239999999