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South Hadley in the American Revolutionary War

John Pendleton

John Pendleton

John Pendleton (FINDAGRAVE) settled in the James Street section of South Hadley in the late 1700s. South Hadley once was a quarter mile longer to the south along its entire border with Chicopee. In 1806 Hampshire County divided into many counties and it was agreed to bring the border of Hampden and Hampshire more to the north. The Lamb family married into the Pendleton family and it is thought that the early Lamb burials were in the Pendleton Cemetery. This early cemetery was a churchyard cemetery were the church was never built. John Pendleton left the Chicopee area and moved to near its border within South Hadley. There a village started of Baptists. The church was too expensive to build but a cemetery for these people was needed. The cemetery was moved in the 1880s to this the South Hadley Village Cemetery. In a similar view, in 1870 Elsie Morgan Pendleton is recorded in the Chicopee city data as having a burial in Chicopee yet is with a stone here. She must have been moved to this cemetery. Did the move happen in the 1870s? Hard to tell. I have search the entire death register of Chicopee from 1848 to 1880 and there are many burials of Chicopee deaths in the South Hadley Falls Cemetery but none listed into the Pine Grove Cemetery.

Central Methodist Episcopal Church

Central Methodist Episcopal Church was first at 51 Perkins Street and then was next at 85 Center Street in 1924. The plaque on the Perkins Street Methodist Episcopal Church states that the church is from 1839 and was called the Methodist Episcopal Church.