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This is a picture of the whole graveyard today. Most of the markings on the gravestones are gone from erosion and from some vandalism. |
STOUT CEMETERY The Stout Cemetery is located at 8th and Chestnut Streets in Perkasie on an enclosed lot of 20 x 20 feet. |
The Stout family members were early pioneers of Perkasie who settled in the Pennsylvania province owned by William Penn and called Perkasie Manor. The old Stout homestead stood at what is now Main and Callowhill Streets.
John Michael Stout and Joan Jacob Stout came to America from Germany in 1733 and 1738. The oldest tombstone upon which a name of the occupant of a grave is given is Jacob Staut, who died April 30, 1779 aged 68 years and 6 months and marked on the grave den 30 April1779, Alt 68 1/2 Yahr (in German). The letters and figures were very difficult to decipher even in 1882 according to an account in the Central News (September 21, 1882).
The well educated Abraham Stout, son of Jacob Stout is buried in the Stout Cemetery. He attended Germantown Academy, became Justice of the Peace, and was a delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1790.
Typical of families of the 1700's the Stout family had their own cemetery. Relatives of the Stauts / Stouts with names such as Groff, Kletzing, Strassburger, Schleifer, and Leidy are also buried at this graveyard. Other family cemeteries are not found in the town of Perkasie because there were few settlers in the Perkasie area in the 1700's.
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A metal fence was placed around the graveyard sometime in the early 1800's. In 1926 a brick and stone wall was constructed around the graveyard using bricks imported from England early in the 18th century and stone taken from the original Stout home here in Perkasie. The bricks were taken originally from a pre-revolution building in Philadelphia which was razed (torn down) to provide an approach to the Delaware River bridge. |
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This is a plot map for Stout cemetery. The cemetery was started from either the mid- 1700's or the late 1700's to early 1800's. There are at least 36 stones in the cemetery. Names of those interred at Stout Cemetery are listed at the right. |
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| Some graves may have more than one stone (ex. a headstone and footstone and in a few cases, a stone in between).
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White marble used for the gravestones in the Stout Cemetery have deteriorated over more than 200 years. Many have become difficult to read and even the carvings are difficult to interpret (such as the angel shown on the grave at left and detail below)
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| Early writing on the tombstones is in German and the family name is spelled Staut. | Later tombstones are in English and the family name is spelled Stout. |
