Guest Book : for the Providence Meeting Commemoration Project

Has anyone you know ever gone to a ceremony after 1929 at the Providence Meeting House?

My understanding is that the meeting house is opened for services at Easter and on Christmas Eve. I have been meaning to attend, but haven't had the opportunity yet. I did stop by once and walked around the graveyard, which includes markers for a number of my Harper ancestors.

Stephen Daniel Harper : I have yet to visit. Do many of the stones in the graveyard have names and dates on them?

Not too many have dates on them. In many cases, the stones are too weathered to be able to read the names. I do have a plot of the graveyard that someone prepared a number of years ago when more stones were readable. I'll see if I can find it. There are not really too many gravestones in the cemetery; from the way they are arranged (in clusters), I suspect that at one time there were more.

Here's a link to information regarding the graveyard: https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/norristown-friends-meeting/resource...

Stephen: Thanks!
~• MVB

An interesting footnote is that Charles Alfred Harper, son of Jesse Harper who is buried at Providence Meeting House, became a Mormon and ended up being one of the original group of Mormon pioneers who settled in Salt Lake City. He also served as the captain of at least one subsequent pioneer company that brought additional converts out to Utah.

I've stopped by there a couple of times in the last few years, but have not been there for the limited services that are held there on Easter and Christmas Eve (usually). Unfortunately, the inscriptions on the Harper headstones are getting pretty hard to read.