Washington County PA Archives Cemeteries........................Mt. Hermon Baptist (partial survey) ************************************************ Copyright 2011. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gary L. Caldwell, , December 2012 This page was last updated: 30 December 2012 Mt Hermon Baptist Church Amity, Washington County, Pennsylvania 200 Banetown Road Amity, PA 15311? (724) 222-2535 Lat: 40° 2'37.56"N, Lon: 80°13'53.64"W Amwell Township Directions from Washington, PA: From the intersection of E Walnut St/N Main St go for 0.6 mi, slight right onto PA-18 S/Park Ave for 7.5 mi, turn left onto Old Post Rd for 49 ft, take the 1st left to stay on Old Post Rd for 2.0 mi, turn right onto Vista Valley Rd for 1.7 mi, continue onto Banetown Rd/State Route 2007 for 0.9 mi, cemetery is on the left. Mt. Hermon was also known as Ten-Mile Baptist Church. According to "History of Washington County, Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men" (Boyd Crumrine, Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882) - Amwell Township, The families of the Banes and others who settled on the waters of Ten-Mile Creek in 1768 were Baptists from Virginia and descendants of such. A church was constituted in 1772 on the Bane settlement, in Amwell township, at the house of Enoch Enochs, The first meeting-house was built in 1786. It was of logs, and was used until 1794. On the 10th of May in that year Samuel Parkhurst, a trustee of the society, purchased twenty-one acres and twenty perches of land for L2 5s. of Daniel McFarland. It was situated on the waters of Ten-Mile, on the tract of land called in the survey "Big Rocks." On this land the society built a hewed log house, which was occupied many years. The society about 1840 built the present brick meeting-house, and on the 1st of July, 1842, Philip Axtell, John Bane, Lewis Ketchum, acting deacons, purchased one acre and one hundred and thirty-one perches of land, in consideration of twelve and a half cents, of Jacob Bane. The deed bears date July 1, 1842, and says "on which now stands the new brick meeting-house." The land on which it stands was warranted to Nathan Bane in 1786, and is part of a tract of three hundred and four acres known as "Bane's Fancy." Aside from information on the church, there is little known about the cemetery. This data was collected by an unnamed researcher and is now found in the genealogy section of the Citizens Library in Washington PA . The data is undated so the burial records may not be complete. LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Axtell Mary 12 May 1854 68yr wife of Philip Axtell Philip 25 Oct 1867 87yr Ayers Joseph 28 May 1820 72yr LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Bane Abner 16 Jun 1805 23 Jul 1867 Bane Anna 17 Sep 1776 9 Sep 1859 Bane Charity 10 Dec 1836 53yr consort of George Bane Christiana 28 Jan 1832 81yr consort of Jesse Bane Hannah 4 Mar 1836 89yr wife of Nathan Bane James 10 Jun 1828 54yr Bane Jesse 25 Oct 1842 98yr Bane John 27 Jul 1851 74yr 11mo 19da Bane Mary 16 Oct 1851 72yr 11mo 18da Bane Nathan 16 Dec 1816 66yr Bayne Mary Mc. 1822 1900 Bayne Nathaniel 1818 1892 LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Clutter John 29 Apr 1850 79yr 2mo 11da Clutter Noadiah 14 Feb 1817 45yr Clutter Phebe 25 Jan 1854 79yr 3mo 9da wife of John Clutter Sarah 10 Apr 1817 36yr wife of William Clutter William (Sr) 16 Jul 1843 68yr 7mo 24da Curry Jesse 17 Mar 1818 27 Mar 1897 Curry Rebecca 15 Oct 1809 21 Oct 1895 wife of Jesse LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Longdon John 25 Oct 1873 76yr 8da Longdon Joseph 23 Jun 1834 23 Mar 1872 Longdon Mary 27 Apr 1838 42yr 2mo 11da consort of John Longdon Sophia 4 Nov 1867 35yr 4mo 24da daughter of John and Mary Luse Matthias (Rev) 28 Jul 1831 67yr Luse Susanna 11 Jul 1841 75yr relict of Rev. Matthias LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Pettit Isaac (Rev) 3 May 1860 74yr 27da Pettit Rachel 4 Jan 1846 63yr 5mo 16da wife of Isaac LAST NAME FIRST NAME BORN DIED AGE NOTES Vandyke Rebecca 9 Nov 1807 13 Sep 1856 wife of Right Vandyke Right 15Jan 1799 2 Mar 1847