PROVIDENCE, PA.
The location of the Tripp Burying Ground was not
next to the Tripp House as often stated in recent years, but was
relatively close to it.
The late George Broadbent's grandmother, Katy Tripp was the last Tripp to live in the Tripp House. George knew that the Tripp Burial Ground was not next to the house as often suggested, but also did not know just exactly on the property where it was located.
An early illustration of a Tripp burial, showed the coach and horses departing from the front porch of the Tripp House after services, for the burial.
"Tripp Graveyard Most Likely First In Scranton"
Charles A. McCarthy's research, "Burying Grounds" in the region, revealed that Tripp's Graveyard, near the later site of the Mount Pleasant Colliery, probably was the first cemetery on the site of present day Scranton. [Also same site of Diamond Shaft in Providence.]
In the June, 1887 Wilkes Barre Record, Dr. H.H. Hollister wrote;
"As early as 1787 there was but a single burying place from the head of the Lackawanna River to it's mouth at Pittston. This was known as Tripp's Graveyard, on the edge of Capoose."
"Isaac Tripp, 'a man of five and 30," built a shelter among the pines in Capoose Meadow in 1771."
Dr Hollister recalled that Dr. Silas B. Robinson, who in 1823 came to Providence Township, "where he creditably practiced his profession nearly 40 years, " died in 1860 and was interred in the old Tripp "burying ground."
Dr. Hollister stated, "it was later covered by a culm bank."
Seventeen bodies of the Tripp's, two LaFrance's, and one Keen, had been removed to two Tripp plots in Forest Hill Cemetery in Dunmore, Pa. in early November, 1870 and November, 1872. where they are marked today with the original gravestones laid flat upon their graves. (Link: Forest Hill Cemetery Data Base)
Dr. Silas B. Robinson and wife Maria Slocum Robinson, were removed and reburied in 1878 in Dunmore Cemetery in Dunmore, Pa., and are so marked with a monument there today.
Information provided by Norma V Reese and Ralph W Robinson II
The late George Broadbent's grandmother, Katy Tripp was the last Tripp to live in the Tripp House. George knew that the Tripp Burial Ground was not next to the house as often suggested, but also did not know just exactly on the property where it was located.
An early illustration of a Tripp burial, showed the coach and horses departing from the front porch of the Tripp House after services, for the burial.
"Tripp Graveyard Most Likely First In Scranton"
Charles A. McCarthy's research, "Burying Grounds" in the region, revealed that Tripp's Graveyard, near the later site of the Mount Pleasant Colliery, probably was the first cemetery on the site of present day Scranton. [Also same site of Diamond Shaft in Providence.]
In the June, 1887 Wilkes Barre Record, Dr. H.H. Hollister wrote;
"As early as 1787 there was but a single burying place from the head of the Lackawanna River to it's mouth at Pittston. This was known as Tripp's Graveyard, on the edge of Capoose."
"Isaac Tripp, 'a man of five and 30," built a shelter among the pines in Capoose Meadow in 1771."
Dr Hollister recalled that Dr. Silas B. Robinson, who in 1823 came to Providence Township, "where he creditably practiced his profession nearly 40 years, " died in 1860 and was interred in the old Tripp "burying ground."
Dr. Hollister stated, "it was later covered by a culm bank."
Seventeen bodies of the Tripp's, two LaFrance's, and one Keen, had been removed to two Tripp plots in Forest Hill Cemetery in Dunmore, Pa. in early November, 1870 and November, 1872. where they are marked today with the original gravestones laid flat upon their graves. (Link: Forest Hill Cemetery Data Base)
Dr. Silas B. Robinson and wife Maria Slocum Robinson, were removed and reburied in 1878 in Dunmore Cemetery in Dunmore, Pa., and are so marked with a monument there today.
Information provided by Norma V Reese and Ralph W Robinson II
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