- Warrington Quaker Meeting House - Public Domain
This is the burying ground allied to the Quaker settlement at Warrington in York Co., PA. (There is another Warrington in Bucks Co., PA.)
Quaker Burial Customs
There was a period when Quakers were discouraged from marking their graves. An old Quaker Burying Ground may look as if it is only partially filled when, in fact, there are many graves that simply have no stones.
A letter to the nearest Monthly Meeting or, in some cases, to the county office in charge of cemeteries, will often help you find data for people whose graves are not marked.
Stones, when they are found, are usually simple, although an occasional one will have fairly complete data on the deceased, or even name a spouse.
Surnames of People Buried at Warrington
Following are surnames for people buried at the Warrington Quaker Burying Ground:
A-E: Alcock, Bell, Bentz, Bradley, Burkholder, Cadwallader, Cleaver, Comfort, Cook, Cookson, Denison, Edmundson, Erwin and Everitt.
G-M: Glass, Gratz, Gray, Griest, Griffith, Harman, Hayward, Hussey, Hutton, John, Jones, Keller, Kuhn, Marsh, McClellan, McClelland, McEllwee, McMilan, McMillan, McMullan and Moore.
N-W: Nelson, Nevitt, Nisbet, Packer, Pugh, Ramsey, Reed, Ross, Squibb, Underwood, Van Arsdelen, Vale, Walker, Wierman, Wall, Wells.
Resources for Tracing Warrington Quaker Families
The Peter Cook(e) Family came to Warrington from Chester Co., PA, where they were members of the Friends’ Meeting at London Grove. Peter Cook (1700-1779) was born in Cheshire, England, the son of Peter and Elinor (Norman) Cooke. He married Sarah Gilpin in 1730 at the Concord Friends’ Meeting House, then in Chester Co., but now in Delaware Co. She was born in 1706 at Birmingham, Chester Co., PA, to Joseph and Hannah (Glover) Gilpin.
Good sources for more information on this and other Pennsylvania Quaker families can be found in the archives at Swarthmore College, in William Wade Hinshaw's Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records, in Immigrations of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682-1750, by Albert Cook Myers, and in a variety of other sources listed in the Quaker section of Cyndi's List. Because Pennsylvania was founded by Quaker William Penn, many of its libraries have good collections of Quaker resources.
Companion articles are titled “Famous Descendants of Quaker Families” and "Quakers and the Underground Railroad: Early Anti-Slavery Stance by Quakers."
SOURCES:
~ List published in 1950 by the Warrington Chapter, The Daughters of American Colonists, York, PA
~ Walmer, Margaret B., 100 Years at Warrington: York County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Quakers Marriages, Removals, Births and Deaths (1990: Heritage Books), used copies available online.
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