Cemetery

About Deep Run West Cemetery Records and a Brief History.

If you are interested in the headstone inscriptions, especially the oldest stones that predate our official church records, please see this page, courtesy of the Bucks County Genealogical Society.  If you still don't find what you want, check out this database of 86,000 burial records from 125 local cemeteries of various denominations at the Mennonite Heritage Center.

Deep Run West in Perkasie, PA, was founded in 1849 after issues divided the existing congregation into two groups. These groups eventually became “Old Order Mennonites—Deep Run East” and “New Order Mennonites—Deep Run West.”  The issues involved creating a written church constitution, Sunday Schools, and church publications.

Within a hundred years, those “new” ideas were eventually embraced by the “Old Order Mennonites.”  Today, we share services and combine youth groups with each other a few times each year, where both congregations have their own specialties.

Allen M. Fretz (1853-1943: Pictured below) was a longtime pastor at Deep Run West and an outstanding leader among progressive Mennonites locally. Click his picture below to learn more about his unique story.