In a message dated 10/9/2006 8:55:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, robinpaulstinson@msn.com writes: Is that list in the book complete? Here is the info from the book regarding this listing. " This list is believed to contain every name on headstones and monuments in Pilesgrove Methodist Meeting -house yard at the date of this record made in 1900. The date of death, which is approximately the date of interment followed by the age, is given whenever it appears on the memorials. It is impossible now to ascertain when theh yard was first used for burial purposes. Our historian informs us that Pilesgrove meeting-house, now standing, was built in 1795, by Joel Abbott. A picture of the old meeting house appeared in the 1904 edition of the Almanac and Year Book ( issued by the National Bank of Woodstown for 1904) It has since been torn down. The earliest inscriptions are those over the graves of three children of the Rev john Vanneman, who wwere buried in Oct and Nov of 1799. Issac herbert was buried on jan 1880; Margaret Fields in 1800 and Thomas Sparks in 1801" Some more information that you might find interesting follows. " The Society of Methodist, now worrshippin at Sharptown was orginated when Methodism was first introduced in Salem Co. The first regular preaching place of which we have any account was the house of William Clark. The house was built of brick and still stands, about a mile from Sharptown, on the road leading to Swedesboro. Now the farm of John Grispin and the old house was demolished a few years ago and replaced with a more modern structure. here the infant society continued to meet for years, and here the Word of God was preached by the first Methodist ministers in NJ. Here Abbott and his earnest associates in the ministry proclaimed salvation to the perishing souls. " "In the year 1795, it was resolved to build a house of God. A location was fixed upon, where now stand the old Pilesgrove meeting-house. The idea of building a church in the village was not at that time entertained on account of the extreme wickedness of the place. The house was built of wood, thirty five feet in length and thirty feet in width with a gallery in one end and was, at that time of the erection, considered a very commodious building. The old house still stand there, with recent repairs upon it, and is only used on funeral occassions." I'm sure that Woodstown would have additional material on this area, and it's growth. Susan