Montour County Cemeteries

B nai Zion Old CemeteryB’nai Zion New Cemetery, DanvilleBillmeyer Cemetery, WashingtonvilleBrights Cemetery, MausdaleCenter CemeteryChillisquaque Cemetery, MexicoColumbia Hill CemeteryDanville Eastern MennoniteDerry CemeteryEpiscopal Cemetery, DanvilleFairview Cemetery, DanvilleGerman Catholic Cemetery (Mahoning Township)Grovania CemeteryGrove Presbyterian ChurchHendrickson Cemetery, DanvilleLight Street CemeteryLongs CemeteryMadden CemeteryMausdaleMooresburg United Methodist Church CemeteryMount Vernon CemeteryOak Grove CemeteryOdd Fellow Cemetery, DanvilleOld Presbyterian Church Cemetery, DanvilleOld Saint Josephs … Read more

Columbia County Cemeteries

Aristes Cemetery, AristesBelles CemeteryBenton Cemetery, BentonBerwick Cemetery, BerwickBoston CemeteryBower CemeteryBriar Creek Union Cemetery, Briar CreekBroadfordingBrown Cemetery, MifflinvilleCanby Cemetery, Mount Pleasant Twp, Millertown County Home (Poor Farm)Creasy Family CemeteryCreveling Cemetery, AlmediaCrouse Family CemeteryDavis Chapel CemeteryDotterer Cemetery (Fishing Creek)Dutch Hill Cemetery, Bloomsburg Ebeneezer CemeteryElan Memorial CemeteryLime Ridge, Emanuel Reformed Church CemeteryEsther Furnace Cemetery, CatawissaFallowbrook/Davis-Harrington, BentonFisher Cemetery, MainvilleFisherdale … Read more

Historical Account of the Expedition Against the Ohio Indians

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNTOF THE EXPEDITIONAGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS,IN THE YEAR MDCCLXIV. UNDER THE COMMAND OF HENRY BOUQUET, ESQ. COLONEL OF FOOT, AND NOW BRIGADIER GENERAL IN AMERICA. Including his Transactions with the INDIANS,Relative to the DELIVERY of their PRISONERS,And the PRELIMINARIES of PEACE. With an INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT of the Preceding CAMPAIGN, And BATTLE at BUSHY-RUN. … Read more

Glimpses of Lower Merion History, Montgomery County

Glimpses of Lower Merion Historyby Charles R. BarkerCharles R. Barker (1876-1961), a resident of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, was a frequent contributor to the Montgomery County Historical Society publications.(Planned as a series of newspaper articles, but never published) Much more than two and a half centuries have rolled by since the founding of Pennsylvania. During that lapse … Read more

Vincent Mennonite Church Burying Ground, Chester County

VINCENT MENNONITE CHURCH BURYING GROUND NEAR SPRING CITY, CHESTER COUNTY, PA., FORMERLY KNOWN AS “RHOAD’S BURYING GROUND.”Copied by George F. P. Wanger, Pottstown, Pa. *”    Copied Oct. 11, 1914.  The additional valuable information, not contained upon the tombstones, is given by Mr. Wanger in parentheses.  G.M.B. Acker, Catharine, (w. of Jacob), b. Dec. 20, 1800, … Read more

St Daniel’s (Corner) Church Cemetery, Berks County

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS, ST. DANIEL’S (CORNER) CHURCH, BERKS COUNTY, PA. By Michael Alvin Gruber, A. M., Washington, D. C.     Inscriptions from tombstone of persons born prior to the year 1776 and buried in the old graveyard adjoining St. Daniel’s (Corner) Church, or the Lutheran congregation in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, located about a mile … Read more

Price Burial Ground, Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County

Tombstones, Price Burial Ground,Lower Salford Township, Montgomery, Co., Pa. By George F. P. Wanger, Pottstown, Pa. TITLE OF BURIAL GROUNDOn the Price Farm, Lower Salford township, Montg. Co., Pa. Deed      Dated June 27, 1720       for 200 Acres and allowanceDirk Jansen et Margaret ux to Jacob Price Deed     Date Feb. 27, 1741Jacob … Read more

Old Salem Cemetery, Derry Township, Westmoreland County

TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS, OLD SALEM CEMETERY, DERRY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Contributed by Miss Elizabeth Machesney, Greensburg, Pa. (note – this is only a partial transcription) Thomas Anderson, Died April 30, 1829, Aged 103 yrs.Nancy Baird, wife of John Baird of Pittsburgh, Died July 25, 1813, Age 21 yrs.In memory of Nancy, wife of John Baird … Read more