AREA HISTORY:  The Friends’ Meeting House, Fawn Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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THE FRIENDS’ MEETING HOUSE – Page 760

The Friends’ Meeting House – The history of the Society of Friends and their 
meetings in this county is found elsewhere in this work.  The present meeting 
house in Fawn Grove Borough is the third one that has been used and is a new, 
neat and cosy building and one of the most comfortable houses of worship in the 
county.  This meeting belongs to the Baltimore yearly meeting; services are held 
twice a week.  Elizabeth Webb, a member of the meeting is eighty-five years old; 
Hannah Jones is eighty-three.  John Webb, William J. Vansant and Nathan P. 
Harry, are the trustees; James K. Brown, Hannah Jones, Mary T. Brown and Rachael 
Ann Pyle, elders; Mary E. Brooks, female overseer.