Cumberland County PA Archives Church Records.....Silver Spring Meeting House Description
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  Church was built in 1783 & from then until 1866, the front entrance was on 
  side facing graveyard.  In 1866 it was changed & faces the parsonage over the 
  door is marble plate "Silver Spring Meeting House 1783"  The stone in front 2d 
  step up & on top is 18 ft long 3 1/2 ft wide & 11 inches thick.
  The old communion set is in a case which was originally their first musical 
  instrument, a melodion.  The ceiling in the main room is 22 to 25 ft high.
  The chapel was erected by Col Henry & Mrs Annie McCormick of Hbg, Pa.  The 
  tablet on the wall reads "This building is erected in memory of Mary Cameron 
  McCormick who died June 3, 1882 aged 8 yrs by her father & mother Henry & 
  Annie C. McCormick as in life she found her great delight in Sunday School 
  Associations so in death, it is fitting that she should be thus remembered.  
  Being dead yet speaketh Hebrews 11:4.
  When the old log church was torn down 1783, some of the original poplar logs 
  went into the building of Peter Fornay's barn & later used in Geo Hoover's 
  barn from which they were sawed into narrow boards which were used in base of 
  the pulpit in the chapel.  They also have the first communion table, the 
  boards primed together, not nailed, which is in strong firm condition.  Rev 
  Charles Beatty preached here at an early day appearing in the pulpit with two 
  revolvers in his belt as a protection vs the Indians.
  
  
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