Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery (Partial), Chester County, Pennsylvania Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives as listed below Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* Birmingham-Lafayette Cemetery 1235 Birmingham Rd West Chester, PA 19382 (610) 793-1569 ---------------------------------- Some Tombstone Images for this cemetery are located at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/birminghamlafayette.htm Contributed by Harry Habbersett Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== HAPPERSETT, Luella T. 1898 1981 HAPPERSETT, Clarence M. 1893 1971 ===================================================================================================== Contributed by Roxanna Barwick Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== HORROCKS, Wilbur A. 10 Jan 1918 13 Oct 1993 HORROCKS, Marian E. 25 Sept 1920 10 Aug 2000 Lot 46, Sec. D Marian was the daughter of John and Mary (Sharp) Lynch LYNCH, Mary C. 1883 1963 LYNCH, John R. 1863 1942 Lot 46, Sec. D SHARP, William W. 09 Feb 1859 25 Apr 1929 Lot 46, Sec. D ===================================================================================================== Contributed by Sherry (Taylor) White Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== TAYLOR, Pusey Philip April 28 1921 May 21 2003 son of Bayard Taylor Sr and Eleanor Hickman Taylor ===================================================================================================== Contributed by Patty Griffin Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== WYLIE, John 11 Nov 1888 19 Sep 1953 WYLIE, Florence Elizabeth 07 Sep 1886 11 Oct 1977 His Wife Wood WYLIE, Samuel J. Dec 1884 26 Nov 1949 Brother of John Wylie WYLIE, Mary Viola Hess ABT 1881 15 Oct 1973 ===================================================================================================== Contributed by Dana Boyd Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== CHESTER, Edwin March 26 1910 Jan 24 1994 He worked at Eachus dairy wife was Elizabet Firtig Chester CHESTER, Elizabeth March 2 1916 April 3 2000 She was trained as a nurse at Chester Count Hospital and worked her whole life there DARLINGTON, Charles Sumner Dec 11 ? Feb 3 1994 He was a cop in West Goshen for yrs. ===================================================================================================== Contributed to PAGenWeb Archives by Nancy Annie Odegard - Nurse73NAO@aol.com Source: Two Hundred fifty years of Quakerism at Birmingham, 1690-1940 West Chester, Pa., Birmingham Friends, 1940, 133 pgs Page 113 Old Graveyard Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== BOWERS, Dorothy M. - w/o Howard died 2001 12 Jul 2007 86 years of age Daughter of Albert and Laura Binz Mason BRINTON, Joseph H. 11.20.1839 aged 76 years CARMALT, Jonathan 05.19.1824 09.10.1829 DARLINGTON, George 08.22.1766 08.16.1839 DARLINGTON, Lydia 08.06.1776 05.31.1826 Names on one stone: DAVIS, Asa 1743 1821 DAVIS, Charles L. 1844 1855 DAVIS, Deborah 1812 1853 DAVIS, Elizabeth Humphrey 1814 DAVIS, Hannah Price 03.26.1737 01.10.1861 Names of one stone: DAVIS, Hibberd Evans 1832 1842 DAVIS, John 1836 1842 DAVIS, Mary Hibberd 1780 1825 DAVIS, William 1772 1822 FORSYTHE, Ann Truman 05.09.1784 02.26.1848 FORSYTHE, Elizabeth H. 03.06.1869 07.28.1869 FORSYTHE, Hannah Carter 01.29.1754 03.04.1851 FORSYTHE, James 07.01.1785 03.09.1851 FORSYTHE, John 06.12.1734 03.03.1840 FORSYTHE, Mary Parvin 04.19.1819 08.12.1863 FORSYTHE, Ruth Truman 05.10.1782 09.03.1847 FORSYTHE, Sarah H. 08.03.1837 09.01.1857 FORSYTHE, William H. 10.29.1866 08.21.1867 FORSYTHE, William S. 10.09.1862 05.12.1863 GIBBONS, M. B. 10.16.1841 PRICE, Isaac 11.30.1799 08.25.1825 PRICE, Philip 01.08.1764 02.26.1837 PRICE, Rachel 04.18.1763 03.06.1847 PRICE, Rachel, Jr. 10.22.1823 07.02.1849 PRICE, Susanna M. (afterwards Susanna M. SMITH) 01.08.1801 12.19.1838 SHARPLESS, Benjamin 08.24.1769 02-01.1852 SHARPLESS, Sidney, 11.13,1792 02.24.1877 SHARPLESS, Susanna Kite, wife of Aaron Sharpless 01.17.1809 09.19.1844 On this native stone rested one corner of the first Meeting House at (Birmingham) Built Cedar Logs, with a flint stone in center of it upon which they burnt charcoal to heat the Meeting, Erected 1721. In Memory of Those Who Fell in the Battle of Brandywine September 11, 1777 Back of this in a common grave lay those who fell in this vicinity. Marked by the Brandywine Valley Farmers' Club 1920. Orthodox Graveyard BARNARD, Ellen C. 07.14.1873 03.02.1934 Page 114 CARTER, Alice M. 02.26.1878 09.18.1936 CARTER, Charles S. 1843 1918 CARTER, Elizabeth C. 04.30.1847 06.13.1912 CARTER, Sarah F. 07.02.1917 aged 2 years 9 months CARTER, Thomas C. 03.04.1905 aged 5 weeks CARTER, William 1940 no stone FORSYTHE, Elizabeth 07.20.1821 07.18.1915 FORSYTHE, Elizabeth P. 1815 1881 FORSYTHE, Hannah E. 1855 1889 FORSYTHE, Hannah J. 02.22.1862 11.09.1932 FORSYTHE, H. Lea 1852 1937 FORSYTHE, John 04.29.1817 04.01.1893 FORSYTHE, Marian E. 1876 1878 FORSYTHE, Mary A. 1843 1930 FORSYTHE, Mary Anna 1845 1915 FORSYTHE, Rebecca M. 09.21.1820 02.26.1893 FORSYTHE, Sara PRICE, wife of Wm. T. Forsythe 1844 1914 FORSYTHE, William T. 1846 1920 FORSYTHE, William 1877 1877 GARRETT, David 08.16.1881 aged 43 years GARRETT, Rachel T. 1830 1917 IRWIN, Mary W. 1804 1882 PARKER, Jacob 1840 1877 ROBINSON, Deborah H. 09.20.1841 02.19.1912 SHARPLESS, Aaron 02.13.1809 01.14.1876 SHARPLESS, Edith 09.11.1836 11.18.1902 SHARPLESS, James F. 02.22.1853 01.18.1868 SHARPLESS, Mary Marshall 01.06.1868 05.15.1939 SHARPLESS, Susanna 09.12.1859 05.29.1931 SHARPLESS, Susanna F. 05.01.1815 10.08.1907 SHARPLESS, Thomas 08.30.1838 12.21.1914 ===================================================================================================== From other sources: Name Date of Birth Date of Death Comments ===================================================================================================== AIDINIAN, Loussarpi - w/o Mihran 20 Jul 2007 94 years of age Daughter of Hovannes and Maktakh Haroustian Kaurdian Mother of sons, Jano & Gary; daughters, Jeanine, Silva, Jeanete, Hasmik, & Magda ARZARELLI, Anthony J. - h/o Jilda Crescentini 17 Feb 2008 86 years of age BAILY, Abram W. 11.15.1816 05.20.1872 h/o Mary Hoopes s/o James Baily & Esther W. James BAILY, Mary Hoopes 04.08.1820 11.23.1894 aged 75 years d/o John Pratt Hoopes & Elizabeth Hunt w/o Abram W. Baily BUSHONG, Esther R. 06 Jan 2006 91 years of age Daughter of Samuel H. Schreiber and Ida W. Yost CARLSON, Margorie J. 17 Sep 2007 85 years of age Daughter of Herman Sprengel and Florence Smith - Wife of Dr. Robert E. Carlson CLARK, Richard Conard - h/o Vera J. Tiffany 14 Dec 2007 60 years of age Son of Thelma M. and Thomas R. Clark DEAVER, Amon Elton, Jr., - h/o Elaine Gale 02 Jul 2008 79 years of age DORRIES, Jane Strode - w/o Karl Robert, Jr., 19 Jul 2008 83 years of age DOWNES, Lucina D. 09 Oct 1914 13 Dec 2005 91 years of age Daughter of Artimus Jenkins & Linda Mae Faucett - Wife of James Edward Downes died 1969 EACH, Edgar J. 09 Aprl 1882 24 July 1941 s/o Stephen H. Eachus & Lydia Emma Ruth h/o Grace D. Hickman EACHUS, Grace D. 28 Oct 1885 12 Aug 1970 d/o Mifflin S. Hickman & Annie E. Dilworth w/o Edgar J. Eachus EACHUS, Henry Morgan 30 Nov 1878 17 May 1963 s/o Stephen H. Eachus & Lydia Emma Ruth EACHUS, Stephen H. 16 Aug 1840 01 Mar 1911 s/o James Eachus & Sarah Hutchinson h/o Lydia Emma Ruth FACKLER, Adele Coleman 1914 27 Nov 2008 w/o John M., Jr. Daughter of Laura Strode and Henry B. Coleman Mother of Sally Hammond and Peter Fackler GORDON, Betty - mother of Brent Lacey 30 Dec 2008 78 years of age Sister of Howard Nafsger, Jr. GORHAM, Jay Whitaker - h/o Barbara J. 25 Aug 2008 73 years of age GUARNERI, Infant Joshua Ade, Jr., 22 Jun 2008 3 months of age Son of Joshua and Deborah Craft Guarneri HACKMAN, George H., Jr., 15 Mar 2009 Uncle of Aimee Hackman HACKMAN, Robert E. 18 Aug 2007 74 years of age HALE, Kristina B. Bang - w/o S. Arthur died 1977 12 Jan 1998 97 years of age HAYES, Carlton W. - h/o Kathryn Constable 06 Jan 2007 HOFFECKER, Joseph M. 15 Sep 2007 97 years of age Son of George Thomas and Edna Marvel Hoffecker KARAS, Barbara L. - w/o Larry 26 Mar 2009 65 years of age Daughter of Bayard Swayne and Barbara Leighton LENTZ, Barbara M. Carner - w/o George William 20 Mar 2009 72 years of age Mother of Sharon N. Hall and Gail D. Stanton MAMPE - THOMAS, Cornelia Knott 13 Jun 1925 11 Oct 2005 80 years of age Daughter of Rufus Henry and Frances Louise Whittelsey Knott Wife of Richard Joseph Thomas - Wife of Edwin Paul Mampe MARTINEZ, Philip Anthony, III., Jan 2008 53 years of age h/o Marybeth Hudak McCAFFERTY, Anna J. December 1948 78 years of age d/o Michael & Amanda Borrell w/o Edward McCafferty McCARTHY, Raymond L., Ph.D., - h/o Gloria Ison 12 Nov 2008 88 years of age Father of Kevin, Sharon and Maureen MIRSHAK, Samuel - h/o Geraldine Glaw 02 Sep 2007 MOHRING, Raymond J. - h/o Elizabeth Goehle 25 Nov 2008 83 years of age NURENBERG, Reid L. - h/o Betty 07 Oct 2008 85 years of age PARKER, Winifred McQuiston - w/o H. George 07 Dec 2008 87 years of age PRICE, William J. - h/o Diane Joyce 26 Aug 2007 66 years of age Son of William J. Price and Helen Brzyski PYLE, Dorothy Ann 25 Mar 2009 84 years of age Daughter of Daniel and Rebecca Morrissiey Place RODNEY, Jean P., R. N., - w/o Roger A. 05 Jan 2006 76 years of age Daughter of Claude Phillips and Flo Scofield SMITH, Marian A. 01 Jan 1931 27 Dec 2005 74 years of age Daughter of Jasper Carpenter and Bessie Boyle - Wife of L. Clyde Smith STURZEBECKER, Janet Grater 06 Jun 1916 28 Jul 2007 91 years of age Daughter of Elizabeth Saylor & William Buckwalter Grater - Identical twin sister of June Grater Wife of Dr. Russell Sturzebecker STURZEBECKER, Dr. Russell, Ed. D., - h/o Janet 16 Oct 2005 89 years of age Son of Russell and Helen Kaspareit Sturzebecker TALLEY, Frank Speakman - h/o Lila E. Wilkers 23 Jul 2008 89 years of age Son of Morton & Elizabeth Speakman Talley - Brother of Marjorie Williams, late Morton Talley VITZ, Robert Charles, PHD., 25 April 2006 61 years of age WINTERS, Sharen Lorraine - w/o Daniel A. 09 Dec 2008 Daughter of Milan S. Gudel and Alice L. Raitz ZEARFOSS, Lida J. - w/o Clarence Y. 30 Jan 1989 102 years of age Daughter of John Morris Jackson and Adaline Hutton Great-granddaughter of Dr. Jonathan Morris - American Revolutionary War ZIMMERMAN, Elizabeth Jane 08 Jul 2006 81 years of age Daughter of Harold and Ruth Rahn Zimmerman Sister of Honorable Dr. Elinor Z. Taylor and Ellen Z. Hines Sources: Obituaries DellaVecchia, Reilly, Smith & Boyd Funeral Home, West Chester, PA ===================================================================================================== Last Updated: 5/20/2010 This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/cemeteries/birmingham.txt