Blooming Grove Dunkard Church, PA

The Blooming Grove Church is located on Dunkard Church Road off of Rt. 973 East coming from Rt 15 or Rt 87 and also can be accessed from I 180 then to Market Street Blooming Grove Rd, then go east on Rt 973. Directions to the Dunkard Church
The Meeting House was built in 1828 and the area for which the church is named after is Blooming Grove. German settlers arrived in 1805. In 1804 the people left Germany after traveling 68 days by sea and they spent a winter in Germantown, they originally were from Wurttemburg, Germany. In 1708 the members of the German Baptist Brethren refused to fight in the war and because of this belief, John and Gottlieb Heim served in prison in 1803 for not bearing arms for Napoleon. They were released in one year and were made to promise that they would emigrate to America. The families left for America on the ship "Margaret" from Aruheim(Arnheim?), Holland on June 9th, 1804 and landed in Philadelphia on September 18. The party that the family remained with on the journey spent the winter in GermanTown. Their pastor and leader was Dr. Frederick Conrad Haller. Land was aqcuired after desiring the highland like Germany, they chose the hills. The History of This Little Church
Ulmer, Heim/Haim, Lehman, Shafer, Entz (not Rentz), Wright and Staiger. Some Names at the Cemetary
Names: Dangle, Gehr, Jacoby, Kragle, Finicle, Wright, Smith, Ottenmiller, Phillips, Stine, McCaslin, McHenry, Morse, Wipple, Davis, Fink, Updergraff, Chaapel, Brown, Chapman, Black, Lewis, Waltz, Bedford, Lundy, Cohick,Milner, Kepner, Jewitt, Grawford, Calvert, Wynn, Jacob Harmon (veteran:Co. A 177 Regt: 1861 to 1865), Kirschbaum, Budd, Souter, Entz, Harman, Kaupp, Doud, Harrison, Eisenmenger, Barto, Ulmer, Frymire, Petter, Plank, some names not listed. The Kurt Cemetary is not far. Other Near By Cemetaries