Hopkins Chapel Cemetery in Bell Acres, Pennsylvania

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Coordinates: 40.60753, -80.15682
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Once known as Ingram's, Hopkins Chapel stood on Hopkins Church Road on the Franklin Park / Bell Acres boundary. The deed was recorded in 1849, but the congregation actually began circa 1810 when neighbors gathered in the log home of Reverend Thomas McClelland, a well known Methodist minister, believed to have conducted the first Methodist service in the fledgling town of Pittsburgh. He also helped organize Methodism in the Sewickley Valley. Inspired by Sewickley's much loved Reverend Robert Hopkins, the Ingram family generously donated a half-acre of farmland for the construction of a Methodist chapel that would sit on a bluff above the Big Sewickley Creek. Dating from circa 1846, the chapel never had its own minister; instead, it shared one with the Sewickley, Blackburn, and Franklin churches. In later years, the larger and wealthier Sewickley Methodist extended financial aid to the struggling country church, but Hopkins was forced to close in the 1920s. Only the outline of the brick church's foundation remains on the now wooded site.
Over the years, the cemetery was heavily vandalized with most of the stone markers are either missing or scattered. The few remaining stones record the names of John and Sarah Ingram as well as those from the McClelland family.