Hokes Meeting House

[fireun]

Down by the PA renfaire,in Lebanon County, settled amidst some cornfields, is an old stone building with a small white sign that says "Hokes Meeting House". Behind it is a tiny graveyard that immediately got my attention as we drove past.

I made djkc  and mdbl  walk a little ways up the road from where we parked at a Sheetz so I could check the place out.





These were lined up against the back of the Meeting House.





It looks like another stone was leaning up against this one for some time.





I was fascinated by the repaired stones. I have never seen them braced on the front before, only the back. And I have never seen an attempt to redo the inscriptions by hand like these.







I enjoy photographing and researching sites like this. I just spent an hour looking at information about Meeting Houses in PA, Quakers, and historical records for Lebanon, PA looking for information about the Hokes location in particular :)

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[libwitch.livejournal.com]

http://www.accesspadr.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/aeliz-cbpc&CISOPTR=116&CISOBOX=1&REC=6

[fireun.livejournal.com]

already had fun with that source :)

Neat how the fence is no longer there though, and how the cornfields have snuck in around.

[fireun.livejournal.com]

hmm...we need to go back to Elmira for cemetery walking.

[angel-vixen.livejournal.com]

We've got all sorts of little hidden graveyards down around our place, and KN's family is currently restoring their family plots (scattered all over their land), so my budding interest in burials/burial places has been indulged recently. I have a book about headstones; I'll have to dig it up (no pun intended) and get the title for you.

AngelVixen :-)

[skyrat13.livejournal.com]

Those were some really interesting ones.

It's so sad how young most of the people there were though.

[snicks-chan.livejournal.com]

If you ever swing through Boiling Springs, PA, there's a teeny graveyard behind the High School with a lot of those hand-scribed stones. A looooot of dead babies in that yard.

[amethyst-clan.livejournal.com]

oooh. I love old graveyards like this. Thank you for sharing!