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Pennsbury Union American Methodist Episcopal Cemetery

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Location	:	Pocopson, Chester County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8977440, -75.6413930
Description	:	Pennsbury Union American Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1827, when Black landowners John and Angelina Smith sold a ¼-acre lot in Pennsbury Township to John Malden [Maulden], James Ramen [Raymond], David Hockins, John Williams, and Richard Brown, Trustees of the African Union Church, "that they shall erect a House for public worship for religious society of African Unions, to be governed by same discipline as African Union Church in Wilmington in the State of Delaware." A congregation quickly formed from the mass of rural Black tenant farmers which inhabited the countryside on the west side of the Brandywine. In... Read More	Pennsbury Union American Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1827, when Black landowners John and Angelina Smith sold a ¼-acre lot in Pennsbury Township to John Malden [Maulden], James Ramen [Raymond], David Hockins, John Williams, and Richard Brown, Trustees of the African Union Church, "that they shall erect a House for public worship for religious society of African Unions, to be governed by same discipline as African Union Church in Wilmington in the State of Delaware." A congregation quickly formed from the mass of rural Black tenant farmers which inhabited the countryside on the west side of the Brandywine. In 1849, the portion of Pennsbury Township in which the church was located became Pocopson Township, which gave rise to some modern-day scholars to call this graveyard the Pennsbury-Pocopson cemetery. During the 1860s, a schism developed in the African Union Church, and Pennsbury became a Union American Methodist Episcopal denomination. The stone church and graveyard continued to be a centerpiece of Black life in the vicinity into the 1910s. The church played host to many quarterly camp meetings, and worshippers came from as far Wilmington and Coatesville to attend the festivities as vendors lined the roads around Denton's Hollow, in which the church was located. As the rural Black population declined in the area in the early-middle part of the 20th century, Pennsbury gradually fell out of use. By 1935, it had become known as the Pennsboro Memorial Union American Methodist Episcopal Mission, attended by a circuit preacher. Not long after, it was abandoned, and the church and cemetery fell to ruin over the ensuing decades. Today, the cemetery is "landlocked," surrounded entirely by private property, without road access, and is overgrown.

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