Notes on the Cemetery Directory
Using the Directory - Sources - Cemetery Layout - Names and Spelling
Old Goschenhoppen
Cemetery is associated with the Old Goschenhoppen Church on Church Road in
Woxall (Upper Salford Township), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Started in 1732 on a 38 acre parcel of land granted by the sons of William
Penn as a Union Church, the building served both Lutheran and Reformed congregations.
This Website provides a directory of over 3,000 graves dating from 1749 to 2005, a listing of burial plots, and a plot map to locate specific gravesites.
This directory consists of two main sections: The first is a master list of burials as of June, 2005; The second section is a table listing of Lot Ownership.
NOTE THAT the directory is a relatively LARGE file and may take a few minutes to load.
To locate a specific grave, click on the Go To Directory button below to open the page. Then from your browser’s edit menu, select the Find (On this page) command and enter the last name. Scroll to find the individual(s) of interest and make a note of the Section, Row, and Lot Number. Then click on the Go to Plot button next to the first name.
The resulting Plot page shows cemetery lots in the section where the grave of interest is located. To aid in navigation, certain prominent headstones are indicated in this level of the plot in contrasting type. Adjacent lots may be viewed with the Pan Arrow buttons, and the Zoom Out button will open a less detailed page. Clicking the Zoom Out button a second time will open a page showing the entire cemetery.
To locate a lot based on it ownership, click on the Go To Directory button below and select the lot ownership tab at the bottom of the page. From there, follow the steps outlined above. (… select the Find (On this page) from your browser’s edit menu…etc.)
A survey of the cemetery was done in 2005 to record as much information as possible from the headstones. This information was supplemented by and correlated to the plans and books of the Association.
Many of the headstones in the older Sections A and B are severly eroded and not legible. For information on those burials, see the book based on a survey was done in 1974 by Grubb et alia and published by Adams Apple Press in 1996.
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Old Goshenhoppen Cemetery, Upper Salford Township, Montgomery Co., PA
Compiled by Edgar B. Grubb, Abram C. Hunsicker & Raymond Hollenbach, 1974
(Published by Adams Apple Press, Bedminster, PA, 1996). 94 p.; every-name
index; paperback
$15.00, ADH5399
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The drawing pages have Church Road toward the bottom, with the direction North to the left. The “A” and “B” Sections of the plot are the same as those shown in the Grubb book. The “C” section from the Grubb book has been merged with the “D” or “Middle” section as shown in the Association Records. The “E” or “New” section is on the far left.
Different numbering conventions are used as the sections were laid out at
different times. Thus in section D, rows are indicated by Letters A (at Church
Road) through P (Boundary Wall) with the lots numbered, while in section E,
the rows are numbered 1 through 38 and the lots are indicated by letters.
In section E, lots by be further subdivided into A or B.
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In correlating
headstones with Association records, a number of assumptions had to be made
regarding surname spelling. These are likely to have arisen in converting
names from German pronunciation and spelling to "Anglicized" phonetic
versions. This situation is not uncommon in genealogical study. Thus, if a
series of stones marked "Kulp" and "Kolb" were interspersed
in a row where a lot owned by "Kulp" was shown, the "Kolb"
burials were entered for that lot. Similarly, "Schieb", "Scheib"
and "Shipe" were considered to belong to a common family, as well
as "Zeigler" and "Ziegler" and numerous others such as
"Sch..." and "Sh...".
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