Funkite Cemetery
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Funkite Cemetery

Also known as Funkite Providence Mennonite Cemetery

Evansburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions Germantown Pike & Skippack Creek Rds
    Evansburg, Pennsylvania 19426 United States
    Coordinates: 40.18038, -75.42307
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From History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference, by John C. Wenger, 1937. P. 349:
The Evansburg Funkite meetinghouse was probably built about 1815. It stood on the south side of the Germantown pike at the east end of Evansburg. Abraham Funk and wife deeded the lot to John Funk, minister and brother of Bishop Christian. But the deed was never recorded and is now lost. The tract consisted of eighty-five perches. About 1870 the old meetinghouse was torn down and the stones were used to build a wall around the little lot. About six years ago Rev. Frank S. Ballentine, a former Episcopal rector and translator of a modern English New Testament, purchased part of the tract for $100. The Montgomery county court appointed Robert Trucksesss a cotrustee of Joseph G. Gotwals the only survivor, to make this sale possible. The earliest burial in the lot was made in 1815. Most of the burials were made from 1815-1837. In 1936 the author drove to Evansburg to interview Rev. Ballentine and found a grave being prepared for the rector who had just died. The cemetery is in a poor condition. Very few legible markers remain.
From History of the Mennonites of the Franconia Conference, by John C. Wenger, 1937. P. 349:
The Evansburg Funkite meetinghouse was probably built about 1815. It stood on the south side of the Germantown pike at the east end of Evansburg. Abraham Funk and wife deeded the lot to John Funk, minister and brother of Bishop Christian. But the deed was never recorded and is now lost. The tract consisted of eighty-five perches. About 1870 the old meetinghouse was torn down and the stones were used to build a wall around the little lot. About six years ago Rev. Frank S. Ballentine, a former Episcopal rector and translator of a modern English New Testament, purchased part of the tract for $100. The Montgomery county court appointed Robert Trucksesss a cotrustee of Joseph G. Gotwals the only survivor, to make this sale possible. The earliest burial in the lot was made in 1815. Most of the burials were made from 1815-1837. In 1936 the author drove to Evansburg to interview Rev. Ballentine and found a grave being prepared for the rector who had just died. The cemetery is in a poor condition. Very few legible markers remain.

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