History of Delaware County Pennsylvania – Table of Contents

History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania by Henry Graham Ashmead, Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co. 1884   Table of Contents Chapter I – Physical Geography and Geology of Delaware County Chapter II – The Early Settlement of Delaware County to the Grant of the Province of William Penn Chapter III – The Circular Boundary Line between … Read more

April 2011 Friends of PA-Roots Newsletter

Friends of PA-Roots Newsletter April 2011 PA-Roots – Bringing our Past into the Future================================================================== PA-Roots continues to grow and add data that is free to access. Since our last Newsletter there have been thousands of new pages of data published. Some of the key highlights include: – Over 9,000 tombstone photographs from cemeteries in Mifflin … Read more

Spending time in the cemetery

Allen, Byrd

It seems that recently I have been doing a lot of work with cemetery transcriptions and tombstone photos.  I think I’ve always had a fascination with cemeteries.  It must have started when I was just a child visiting a cemetery that my grandparents were buried in and it has grown from there.  I remember when … Read more

St. Mark’s Lutheran Cemetery, Dormantown, Decatur Township, Mifflin County

St Mark’s Lutheran CemeteryDormantownDecatur TownshipMifflin County, Pennsylvania   Contributed by Mona Anderson Surname First Name Middle Name Date of Birth Date of Death Age at Death Notes Barger Dewey A 1898 1956     Barger Esther H 1904 1956   Wife of Dewey A Barger Boreman Marianne     1 January 1929     Boreman … Read more