Stoner Family Cemetery
Lower Swatara Township
Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania
(Located in an area locally known as Jednota)
Compiled by Linda J. Wileman
Contributed by William Hartman
This cemetery is located in Lower Swatara Township, Middletown, Pa. The area this cemetery is found in is locally known as Jednota. At one time this farm cemetery was the burial ground of the Stoner family and allied kin. All that is known to be left of the farm is this cemetery and the adjacent farm house, which is now a restaurant currently known as Bratina’s and formerly known as the Old Stone Inn. The cemetery is located on Pennsylvania State Road 230, which goes through Harrisburg, Steelton, Highspire, Middletown, Elizabethtown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The following table shows the names and dates inscribed on the headstones in the cemetery. The first column gives the name or initials found on each stone. The second column gives the dates and other identifying inscribed on the stone.
| Name and other identifying information | Dates |
| C. G. | No dates |
| L. R. | No dates |
| B.Z. | No dates |
| A. Lincoln (son of Michael and Mahilda) | b. 4-26-1861 d. 8-10-1881 |
| John Stoner | d. 2-5-1869 12 yrs. 3 mo. 5 days |
| Mahilda N. (wife of Michael Stoner) | b. 4-26-1831(?) d. 4-16-1874 |
| Michael Stoner (father) | d. 10-29-1862 53 yrs 7 mo. 2days |
| Lydia Strayer (wife of Michael) | d. 4-28-1851 36 years |
| Elizabeth Stoner | b. 5-?-1844 d. 2-7-1869 |
| Jacob Stoner | d. 9-17-1829 30 years |
| Henry W. Stoner | b. 11-22-1841 d. 12-28-1879 88 years |
| Mary A. Stoner | b. 5-8-1815 d. 12-22-1910 (this was last burial in this cemetery |
| Solomon Stoner | d. 12-3-1881 32 yrs. 3mo. 5 days |
| Mary F. Stoner | d. 3-24-1879 32 yrs. 14 days
|
| M. S. | No date |
| S. | No dates |
| E. S. | No dates |
| Henry Stoner | d. 10-17-1816 53 yrs. 6 mo. 11 days |
| Mary Ann (wife of Henry Stoner, daughter of George and Mary Neibling) | b. 5-18-1775 d. 9-15-1844
|
| Elizabeth Stoner | b. 4-29-1866(?) d. 3-1-1892 |
| Martha (wife of Henry Stoner) | d. 4-17-1825 21 yrs. 7 mo. |
| Magdelana (wife of Henry Stoner) | d. 4-5-1835 |
| Henry Stoner | b. 8-25-1797 d. 8 -?-? 49 yrs. 11 mo. 8 days |
| Joseph (son of George and Barbara Zimmerman) | d. 11-19-1856 b. 7-9-1840
|
| Barbara (Wife of George Zimmerman) (Daughter of H & M. Stoner | b. 11-5-1824 d. 8-16-1850
|
| M. N. S | No dates |
| A small gray slate stone lies in the corner of the cemetery. On the stone someone wrote the name Stoner. Under the name Stoner three words were scratched; My God Knows. Apparently the writer meant that only God knows who’s buried there. | |
| Benjamin Core | No dates Civil War Soldier 93rd Pa. Vol Co. I |
| Blank Stone | |
| M.N.R. | No Dates |
| Blank Stone | |
| S.A.S. | No Dates |
| M.S. | No Dates |
| Blank Stone | |
| L.S. | No Dates |
| Martin Wetzel | d. 6-13-1854 |
| Charles Ritterspach | d. 1-20-1852 32 yrs. |
| Mahala Neavling (consort of Charles) | b. 1-15-1827 d. 10-16-1852 25 yrs. 9 mo. Days |
| Edward (son of Charles Mabal Ritterspach) | b. 1-14-1851 d. 6-7-1851 |
| C. M. R. | b. 6-13-1848 d. 12-19-1850 |
| Catharine Ghistwite | b. 10-15-1784 d. 12-29-1855 |
| Blank stone | |
| Blank stone | |
| Mary Ann (dau of Michael and Lydia Stoner) | 6-1835 3 yr. 6 mo.
|
| Infant of Michael and Matilda Stoner | d. 8-21-1853 5 days |
| Infant of Michael and Matilda Stoner | Born and died 3-1848 |
| H.S. | No dates |
| Sarah Ann (dau. of Michael Stoner) | d. 7-22-1814 3 yrs. 19 days |
| H. Z. S. | No dates – Civil War Soldier |
| H.W.S. | No dates |
| George Stoner | b. 3-28-1835 d. 6-24-1902 |
Some of these stones and stones with just initials are believed to be stones that were put at the foot of the graves. Since the initials match with the names on the headstones, the suggestion of these small stones being footstones may be correct.
Linda J. Wileman, 1979
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