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From: Floyd Miller <>
Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] Cemetery Transcripts by N.A. Gobrecht, Altoona, PA.
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:45:09 -0500 (EST)

I would also like to see if there are any MILLER's on that list mas I am
putting everything about the MILLER's of Adams Copunty, PA on my web
site for others to use:

www.unf.edu/~fmille/miller.htm



Tks.

(^__^)






On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Donna wrote:

> Hello List:
>
> I am in search of the complete transcript of tombstones from the Old
> Reformed and Lutheran Graveyard also known as the Arendtsville Cemetery,
> Adams Co., PA. that a N.A. GOBRECHT of Altoona, Blair Co., PA. did
> probably around 1910.
>
> The partial listing can be found in the PA German Magazine, the February
> 1910 Suppliment Paper VI on pages 15 and 16. N.A. Gobrecht only
> submitted for publication the "tombstone inscriptions of person born
> prior to 1800 and past 16 years at death at Arendtsville, Adams Co.,
> PA.".
>
> He informed the readers that there was "well over 1200 graves, over
> which there are no stones or markers, many having been broken off or
> pulled out by vandal hands to be piled up, with few exceptions in the
> corner of the old graveyard."
>
> My parents, when looking for my father's ancestors and distant relatives
> who were to be buried in that graveyard, were told that it had been
> buldozed over to make a bank parking lot with many stones covered over
> by blacktop. I am deeply appalled by that gesture of mankind destroying
> what the people buried there so long ago thought was a sacred place and
> that they would rest in peace until the ressurection. Sure some of them
> were to be exhumed and reburied in either the Greenmount or the Fairview
> Cemeteries, but only a few considering there were at least 1200 others
> buried in that cemetery.
>
> If anyone knows where I many find the complete listing of N.A. GOBRECHT
> of Altoona, PA. could you please e-mail me at:
>
> Thank you in advance... Donna HELLER ZINN of Cumberland Co., PA.
>
>

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