Fishburn Meeting House
notes from Notes and Queries, by William
Henry Egle, M.D., M.A. Annue Vol. 1896
In Derry Township, a few miles east of Hummelstown, was erected
in the year 1846 a one-story limestone church or meeting house, by the United Brethren in
Christ, and remodeled in the year 1886. Long before the year in which the house was
erected the followers of Otterbein worshipped in the surrounding country among its members
holding their meetings statedly in houses during the winter and barns in summer, excepting
when the large gatherings were had, they went to the woods and held their "two
day" meetings, or if longer than that, it was known as a camp meeting. Adjoining the
church is a well kept graveyard, where sleep in death those who succeeded many of the
Scotch-Irish to the farms in old Derry township and who received their early religious
training at Sand Hill and Hummelstown Lutheran churches.
DUEY, Harriet-Ann, dau. of Samuel b. 27 Jun 1830; d. 23 Sep 1867
DUEY, Henry, d. 23 Jul 1856, aged 2 years.
DUEY, Mary-Ann, d. 29 Jan 1855, aged three years.
EBERSOLE, John, b. 12 May 1812; d. 2 Jul 1872
EBERSOLE, Anna-Marie, w. of J., b. 14 Oct 1812; d. 28 Feb 1872
FISHBURN, Phillip, b. 15 Nov 1754; d. 7 Sep 1851,
(was the son of Phillip, the progenitor or emigrant; baptised
sixth Sunday after Trinity.)
FISHBURN, Anna-Maria, w. of P., b. 9 jun 1771; d. 29 Sep 1854
FISHBURN, David. B. 8 Oct 1790; d.22 Sep 1851
FISHBURN, Barbara, b. 17 Dec 1816; d. 20 Apr 1886
FISHBURN, Lewis, b. 21 Sep 1839; d. 17 Dec 1886
FISHBURN, Anna-Maria, w. of Peter b. 6 Oct 1821; d. 14 Feb 1875
FISHBURN, John, b. 14 Dec 1800; d. 29 May 1846
FISHBURN, Maria, w. of J., daughter of Johannes and Barbara
REICHERT
b. 3 Mar 1805 in Lebanon County; d. 13 May 1833
FISHBURN, Daniel, b. 23 Jul 1809; d. 8 dec 1851
FISHBURN, Mary, b. 27 Feb 1812; d. 27 May 1876
FISHBURN, Benjamin, b. 26 Jan 1802; d. 5 Aug 1877
FISHBURN, Sophia, w. of B. (SNAVELY), b. 28 Jul 1806;, d. 11 Feb
1873
FISHBURN, Louisa, w. of A. B. METZGER, b. 23 Apr 1850; d. 10 Nov
1875
GOULD, John, b. 1808; d. 6 Sep 1884
HERSHEY, John, b. 3 Dec 1814; d. 15 Dec 1882
HERSHEY, Barbara, w. of J., b. 12 Feb 1816; d. 23 Jul 1855
JONES, Elizabeth, b. 10 Jan 1801; d. 11 Jan 1886
KELLER, Johannes, b. 16 Aug 1786; d. 15 Dec 1856
KELLER, Elizabeth, b. 29 Apr 1790; d. 31 Jan 1851
MILLER, Jonathan, b. 23 Jul 1783; d. 12 Oct 1864
MILLER, Anna Maria, w. of J., b. 7 Oct 1791
SCHETZ, Susanna, b. 20 Jul 1784; d. 25 May 1804
SNAVELY, Joseph, b. 26 Dec 1796; d. 4 Jul 1881
STROH, William, b. 23 Sep 1810; d. 5 Nov 1882
STROH, John, b. 8 Dec 1846; d. 21 Apr 1886
SLESSER, Catharine, w. of Anthony, b. 25 Jun 1809; 6 Jul 1884
WEAVER, Barbara, b. 7 Jan 1790; 17 Jan 1881
A current list and maps on following pages copied
by member Irene Gipe. 1996
Keystone Seekers Genealogical Quarterly Spring 1997
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