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Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church and Cemetery                Cemetery photos  - Wm Elder
PO Box 128, Spring Run, PA 17262 717-349-2603               Wm's stone and UPV Church
http://www.upvpc.org/mod/church-information
It says:
...."founded a full ten years before the                Cemetery List          Carolyn Shearer's Photos in UPV Cemetery
Declaration of Indepedence was written.                   John A. ELDER, b. 1839-
The first group to worship in our valley were the      Abram ELDER and Nancy Nesbitt
Scotch-Irish..."
                                                                                           Robert ELDER,  b. Aug 22 1850 - d. Feb 10, 1890 (son of Samuel and Martha)
MINISTRY:
The community has a convenience store, a bank, gasoline
station, post office, the Path Valley Family Restaurant, a
United Methodist Church as well as our church. We are
less than an half-hour drive to two large communities
with malls, numerous shops, and one community
hospital. A medical center 2 miles from our church has a
doctor, dentist , optometrist and a nurse practitioner. The
Fannett-Metal School District campus is located 2 miles
south of Spring Run. Shippensburg University, Wilson
miles. We have two volunteer fire companies, two
Ruritan Clubs, a Lions and Lioness club in the valley.
Spring Run is just 4 miles north of exit 14 of the PA
Turnpike. Interstate 81 is with in 25 miles.

ELDER in Findagrave - Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church Cemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=2261453&GSfn=&GSln=elder

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Church ELDERS of early years - Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church,
Fannett Township, Spring Run, Franklin Co PA
   Records - "transcribed from original ledgers and notebooks," including entries for JOHN and DAVID ELDER.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nancyelder/jane/UPVRec.htm

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Lower Path Valley Presbyterian Church and Cemetery
18072 Fannettsburg Rd. East   Fannettsburg,   PA   17221
P.O. BOX 406
Ph.  717-349-2145
Rev. Ted Hale directly through e-mail: [email protected]
http://fm2.forministry.com/church/Details.asp?SiteId=17221lpv&strPage=pgMinistry

Gillispie charts show Burials at: Upper Path Valley Presb. Church Cem, Spring Run
Samuel's son JOSEPH ELDER, 1804-1886 and his wife Mary WOLFF, 1815-1887 died Fannett Twp
    (Their dau: Mary Ann Elder, b. 1845  d. 1890          Robert ELDER Will of 1807 and charts
       married Denton Oliver SHEARER)

William Oliver ELDER, b. 1838  d. 1898  Fannett Twp
his wife: Sarah Agnes WOLFE, 1839-1906
    (son Joseph McClellan Elder, b. 1867 d. 1938)
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On a Franklin County webpage, there are  marriages lists by Rev. McGinley,
so where are the baptism records?
http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/franklin/church/marr0002.txt
Begins in:
1802
"A list of  "Marriage Records by Rev. A.A. McGinley, D.D."
Found in the Appendix, p. 92-97 of the book "History of Path Valley Presbyterian Churches" by
Rev. D.I. Camp and Rev. J. Warren Kauffman.
Published in 1916 by the Repository Press in Chambersburg, Pa.

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  "Marriage records by Rev. David Denny, 1794-1880" includes our
JOSEPH ELDER and Polly Walker.
Posted here:
http://searches1.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/pa/franklin/church/pathvpres01.txt

"From a list in the State Library in Harrisburg
Appendix E
Marriages performed by the Rev. David Denny,
D.D., Path Valley, Franklin  Co., PA
"1800
May 8 - Joseph Elder to Polly Walker"
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http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/mg/mg3.htm
Path Valley and Falling Springs Church, Franklin County:
congregational record, 1803-37, 1 vol.
Manuscript Group 3- Pennsylvania State Archives
CHURCH AND CEMETERY RECORDS COLLECTION 1764-1882

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Paxton Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA
http://www.paxtonpresbyterian.org/cemetery
ELDER markers:
  3.REV. JOHN ELDER 1706-1792 Famous "fighting parson" and organizer of the Paxton Boys. Born and educated in Scotland, was a pastor of Paxton Church from 1738-1791. A staunch supporter of the Revolution,  he recruited for the army.
 4.ROBERT ELDER 1742-1818 Eldest son of Rev. John Elder, fought in French and Indian War and the Revolution. A ruling elder of Paxton Church.
 5.JOSHUA ELDER 1744-1820 Second son of Parson Elder. Involved in the military during frontier troubles and Revolution.
24.JAMES ELDER 1895-1918 Killed in France during World War 1.

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