Solomon's Temple Union American Methodist Episcopal Cemetery
Also known as African Union Church of London Grove Cemetery , Chatham Cemetery , Solomon's Temple African Union Cemetery
West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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West Grove, Pennsylvania 19390 United StatesCoordinates: 39.85432, -75.84091 - Cemetery ID:
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John Bell died in 1873 and bequeathed a considerable sum to the church. Shortly thereafter, led to a small congregation meeting at the former Williamson Methodist Episcopal Church in nearby Penn Township. However, services continued on at Solomon's Temple (which had become a U.A.M.E. Congregation in the 1860s) until the early 1900s.
By the 1960s, the church had fallen to ruin and the cemetery had become "covered with weeds, briars and saplings and many of the tombstones [were] leaning or [had] fallen over." A group of township residents petitioned London Grove Township to take charge and maintain the grounds, and in 1965 a county Judge ordered just that.
The stone foundation of the church remains, but the majority of the burials lack their original headstones that have been destroyed, buried or removed over time. Today the cemetery is kept up by the township and is nominally open to the public.
John Bell died in 1873 and bequeathed a considerable sum to the church. Shortly thereafter, led to a small congregation meeting at the former Williamson Methodist Episcopal Church in nearby Penn Township. However, services continued on at Solomon's Temple (which had become a U.A.M.E. Congregation in the 1860s) until the early 1900s.
By the 1960s, the church had fallen to ruin and the cemetery had become "covered with weeds, briars and saplings and many of the tombstones [were] leaning or [had] fallen over." A group of township residents petitioned London Grove Township to take charge and maintain the grounds, and in 1965 a county Judge ordered just that.
The stone foundation of the church remains, but the majority of the burials lack their original headstones that have been destroyed, buried or removed over time. Today the cemetery is kept up by the township and is nominally open to the public.
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- Percent photographed92%
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- Total memorials715
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West Grove, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Total memorials1k+
- Percent photographed96%
- Percent with GPS94%
- Added: 23 Feb 2005
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2136773
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