St. John’s
Union Church
Farmersville, Northampton, Pennsylvania
History of St. John’s Church. [not posted yet]
Current church building erected 1936.
First Arner members: [not known yet]
Map to St. John’s Church. [not posted yet]
Directions: On the north side of William Penn Highway, about ½ mile west
of State Route 33; at the intersection with Church Road.
Contact info:
St. John Lutheran Church
8065 William Penn Hwy
Farmersville PA 17522
(610) 866-9882
St John’s UCC
8065 Wm Penn Highway
Easton PA 18042
(610) 866-1155
[NOTE: I’m not sure why different sources give different addresses, but
this isn’t the only union church that I’ve found that for.J]
Photos of Arner gravestones at
St. John’s Church:
SUSANNA (KOENIG) ARNER, 1787-1866, (wife of Nicholas4 Arner).
[gravestone]
[The
8th upright stone in the row south of the pagoda.]
[only
one found]
NOTE: I expected to find more Arner gravestones at
that church, but there may be more there. Many of the gravestones in the older
sections were installed flat on the ground, and many (possibly most) of them
have since sunk enough to be completely overgrown. I also saw dozens of stones
where only a five or six inch circle in the center of the stone is still
visible and the names can’t be seen; they will soon be gone also.
(That’s
something to think about if your own modern cemetery requires horizontal
plaques “to make it easier to mow”, as some do now.)
St. John’s Church (Farmersville, Northampton, PA). Last revision: 17 Oct 2004
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