Kimber Family Burial Ground
Also known as Emmor Kimber Family Cemetery Lot
Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kimberton, Pennsylvania 19442 United StatesCoordinates: 40.12921, -75.57765 - Cemetery ID:
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This is a small cemetery on the grounds of the Centennial Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery was established in 1820, two years after Quaker educator and abolitionist Emmor Kimber deeded ⅘ of an acre of land on a hillock southwest of his boarding school to the Society of Friends for the erection of a meeting house. Kimber had requested that the Pikeland Preparative Friends Meeting be moved to a location more convenient to his school, a request which was granted. The simple gable-roof stone building was built by contributions from the members of the Pikeland Meeting and Friends in Philadelphia and became known, unofficially, as the Kimberton Friends Meeting.
After the meeting was "laid down" — that is, discontinued — in 1856, ownership of the land reverted to the Kimber family, passing to Emmor's daughter Abigail. After Abigail's death in 1871, it was willed to her distant cousin Martha Kimber who, in May, 1879, deeded the land to the Centennial Lutheran Church of Kimberton with the provision that the lot known as the "Emmor Kimber family cemetery and lot" would fall under the care of the Church or its successors, and that they "shall and will take good care of the said lot of ground . . . and protect it from being overrun or encumber with bushes weeds or briars, preserve the identity of the several graves therein being and prevent them from being violated and the remains therein deposited from being removed or interfered with and shall and will also permit and allow the said Martha Kimber and her heirs to erect any such monuments or grave stones one the dead in the said lot deposited as they or any of them shall think proper."
Today the burial ground is surrounded by a small stone wall which and the grave markers once laid out on the grounds have been built into it.
This is a small cemetery on the grounds of the Centennial Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kimberton, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery was established in 1820, two years after Quaker educator and abolitionist Emmor Kimber deeded ⅘ of an acre of land on a hillock southwest of his boarding school to the Society of Friends for the erection of a meeting house. Kimber had requested that the Pikeland Preparative Friends Meeting be moved to a location more convenient to his school, a request which was granted. The simple gable-roof stone building was built by contributions from the members of the Pikeland Meeting and Friends in Philadelphia and became known, unofficially, as the Kimberton Friends Meeting.
After the meeting was "laid down" — that is, discontinued — in 1856, ownership of the land reverted to the Kimber family, passing to Emmor's daughter Abigail. After Abigail's death in 1871, it was willed to her distant cousin Martha Kimber who, in May, 1879, deeded the land to the Centennial Lutheran Church of Kimberton with the provision that the lot known as the "Emmor Kimber family cemetery and lot" would fall under the care of the Church or its successors, and that they "shall and will take good care of the said lot of ground . . . and protect it from being overrun or encumber with bushes weeds or briars, preserve the identity of the several graves therein being and prevent them from being violated and the remains therein deposited from being removed or interfered with and shall and will also permit and allow the said Martha Kimber and her heirs to erect any such monuments or grave stones one the dead in the said lot deposited as they or any of them shall think proper."
Today the burial ground is surrounded by a small stone wall which and the grave markers once laid out on the grounds have been built into it.
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- Added: 1 Apr 2007
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2212026
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