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Whitestick Family Burial Ground

Providence Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA

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    Coordinates: 39.89470, -76.18124
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The former Whitestick Family Burial Ground was located in Providence township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on a farm about a mile west of Quarryville, on the north side of the Buck Road, and west side of Oak Bottom Road. The exact coordinates are unknown, and not a trace of the old burying ground exists in the present day. From the brief description found in a paragraph of Esther (Whitestick) Snavely's obituary, dated 1883, it can be estimated that burials were made in this location from the early 1780s well into the latter part of the 1830s.

While we will never know the identities of most of the former site's occupants, we can confidently memorialize a few individual persons, and with thoughtful consideration, possibly add a few others.

"On the farm of Nancy Newswanger, about a mile west of Quarryville, is the old family burying ground of the Whitestick family, one of the oldest in the county, and well worthy a visit by anyone who takes an interest in such things. It is almost fifty years since there was anyone buried in it."

*Excerpt from the obituary of Esther (Whitestick) Snavely [ Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 27 Dec 1883, Thu, Page 2]
The former Whitestick Family Burial Ground was located in Providence township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on a farm about a mile west of Quarryville, on the north side of the Buck Road, and west side of Oak Bottom Road. The exact coordinates are unknown, and not a trace of the old burying ground exists in the present day. From the brief description found in a paragraph of Esther (Whitestick) Snavely's obituary, dated 1883, it can be estimated that burials were made in this location from the early 1780s well into the latter part of the 1830s.

While we will never know the identities of most of the former site's occupants, we can confidently memorialize a few individual persons, and with thoughtful consideration, possibly add a few others.

"On the farm of Nancy Newswanger, about a mile west of Quarryville, is the old family burying ground of the Whitestick family, one of the oldest in the county, and well worthy a visit by anyone who takes an interest in such things. It is almost fifty years since there was anyone buried in it."

*Excerpt from the obituary of Esther (Whitestick) Snavely [ Lancaster Daily Intelligencer, 27 Dec 1883, Thu, Page 2]

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  • Added: 19 Jan 2019
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2679087