Ebenezer Baptist Church Burial Ground
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Ebenezer Baptist Church Burial Ground

Also known as Snuff Mill Road Cemetery

Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware, USA

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    Hockessin, Delaware 19707 United States
    Coordinates: 39.81189, -75.65767
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The Ebenezer Baptist Church was located one and one-half miles from Yorklyn on Snuff Mill Road. On January 8, 1807, Thomas Kitchen sold to a board of trustees, for $47.50, 2 acres and 60 perches of land adjoining a stone schoolhouse as a site for a Baptist meetinghouse. The church was built of frame. On October 18, 1873, the church trustees sold 22 perches of this land to neighbor John W. Sharpless for $15.00. The deed specified that this money would be used in the maintenance of the church.



This church was later used as a community center for holding lyceums, which were in vogue at that time. Eventually the building was torn down and the salvaged lumber was used to build chicken-houses on an adjoining farm.



There is a stone wall enclosing the graveyard and a few gravestones can be seen today in a wooded area off the Oversee Farm Trail. Some of these markers are field-stones placed upright, one of which is initialed, but most of them are unmarked. The last burial was that of Harmon Davis, who died on February 13, 1896. The Davis plot has substantial tombstones, the oldest of these is dated 1857. The enclosure is well-filled with saplings and trees.



-- Adapted "The Churches of Delaware" by Frank R. Zebley.





The Ebenezer Baptist Church was located one and one-half miles from Yorklyn on Snuff Mill Road. On January 8, 1807, Thomas Kitchen sold to a board of trustees, for $47.50, 2 acres and 60 perches of land adjoining a stone schoolhouse as a site for a Baptist meetinghouse. The church was built of frame. On October 18, 1873, the church trustees sold 22 perches of this land to neighbor John W. Sharpless for $15.00. The deed specified that this money would be used in the maintenance of the church.



This church was later used as a community center for holding lyceums, which were in vogue at that time. Eventually the building was torn down and the salvaged lumber was used to build chicken-houses on an adjoining farm.



There is a stone wall enclosing the graveyard and a few gravestones can be seen today in a wooded area off the Oversee Farm Trail. Some of these markers are field-stones placed upright, one of which is initialed, but most of them are unmarked. The last burial was that of Harmon Davis, who died on February 13, 1896. The Davis plot has substantial tombstones, the oldest of these is dated 1857. The enclosure is well-filled with saplings and trees.



-- Adapted "The Churches of Delaware" by Frank R. Zebley.





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