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From: "Karl E. Moyer" <>
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS-L] Where are Zug, Stauffer and Mastersonville Cemeteries?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:05:25 -0400 (EDT)


Let me ask any list readers to make corrections to any errors I
might have in my response to this inquiry. Thank you.

On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, GeraldWR wrote:

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> Is any one able to give me road directions to the following cemeteries ?
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> Zug Cemetery northeast of Manheim, PA

In Penn Twp, somehwere on the north side of Airy Hill Road and
east of Locust Grove Road, east of some farm buildlings there. It has a
wall around it.

> Stauffer Cemetery south of Hershey, PA

I assume this refers to the cemetery adjoining Stauffer's
Mennonite Church, SE of Hershey PA. Drive PA Rt. 743 northward from
Elizabethtown or south from US 322 at Hockersville until you get to
Bachmanville Road going east. (Bachmanville Road leaves PA 743 slightly
south of Fishburn's United Methodist Church.) Drive east on Bachmanville
Road for several miles, including around several 90-degree turns to the
right and left; Stauffer's Church eventually appears on your left, and the
cemetery is slightly up the hill to the left as you look at the church.
If there is also a Stauffer Family cemetery on a farm south of
Hershey, I can't give any guidance.
An interesting place en route on Bachmanville Road: the limestone
Church building and adjoining Cemetery of Hershey's Reformed Mennonite
Church, ca. 1 mile east of PA Rt 743 on Bachmanville Road, where Milton
Snavely Hershey's parents were first buried before he had them re-buried
in Hershey Cemetery NE of Hershey. He reportedly gave some $$$ for the
upkeep of this Hershey's Reformed Mennonite Meeting House and cemetery.

> Brethren Cemetery near Mastersonville, PA

You likely refer to the Brethren in Christ Church, as opposed to
the Brethren, i.e., Churchof the Brethren, cemetery in Mastersonville. The
church and cemetery are on Colebrook Road at the east side of
Mastersonville, going toward Manheim. To reach Mastersonville from HBG:
take the Pa. Turnpike to PA Rt. 72 (Lebanon-Lancaster interchange; south
on PA 72 to the Elizabethtown Road (at the sign to Ruhl's Church); west on
E-town Road to Colebrook Road, and turn right at Colebook Road into
Mastersonville; the church and cemetery will be on a hill on your right
as you enter the 'ville.

It might be worth a trip first, however, to Lanc. Co. Historical
Society, 230 North President Avenue, Lancaster, where one finds cemetery
records for both of the Lanc. Co. cemeteries in question.

Cordially,

Dr. Karl E. Moyer
Lancaster PA

> I have clues that I have ancesters burried in these.
>
> Gerald Rhoades
> Harrisburg, PA
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