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From: "laney" <>
Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Hannastown Graveyard, ca 1813.
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:13:47 -0400


oops twice try the link below again as i corrected it sorry senior moment
----- Original Message -----
From: "laney" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Hannastown Graveyard, ca 1813.


> oops
> www.pa-roots.com/~westmoreland/historyproject/vol1/chap12.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "laney" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Hannastown Graveyard, ca 1813.
>
>
>> try this
>>
>> www.pa-roots.com~westmoreland/historyproject/vol1/chap12.html
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "laney" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Hannastown Graveyard, ca 1813.
>>
>>
>>> the whole address did not come though
>>> www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/ff29.html
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Beaurega" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:31 PM
>>> Subject: [PAWESTMO] Hannastown Graveyard, ca 1813.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I found this 1895 map of the Hannastown settlement by John B. Steel on
>>>> rootsweb.com
>>>> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/ff29.
>>>> html
>>>> The map take awhile to download and shows the surrounding farms.
>>>>
>>>> I have always wondered who the people's names were that were at
>>>> Hannastown
>>>> during the massacre. I wondered where the victims were buried. I have
>>>> never seen any listing of who died (9? or 20?) or a complete listing of
>>>> who
>>>> was there.
>>>>
>>>> 0.2 miles west of the crossroads at Old Hannastown on Forbes Trail are
>>>> two
>>>> cemetery sites. The one is shown on topgraphic maps of the USGS as
>>>> north
>>>> of the road. It has a huge monument with the name Steel on it. Across
>>>> the
>>>> road in a poor rail fenced off area, is a small graveyard that is
>>>> marked
>>>> on
>>>> the above map as the Hannastown graveyard..
>>>>
>>>> The oldest marker in the small graveyard that I could read was for Mary
>>>> Stephenson died Apr 12, 1813 aged 56 years. So she was old enough to
>>>> be
>>>> alive at Hannastown but was she there? I believe the grave next to her
>>>> is
>>>> her husband (badly broken, face delemaination). They have what appears
>>>> to
>>>> me to be footstones. The one opposite Mary says, "M. (gone)". The
>>>> other says, "S . S." So her husband was prbably Mr. S.
>>>> Stephenson.
>>>>
>>>> A very badly broken stone says KiziaMason. It does say Mason. I could
>>>> not
>>>> read anything else without some water.
>>>> A newer stone of granite, says Robert Bell 1841-1915, 40 years a
>>>> servant
>>>> of William Steel. It appears to me that this poor graveyard is for
>>>> lesser
>>>> members of the Steel family households. The site has an estimated room
>>>> for
>>>> 36 graves. No others were seen or depressions noted. No field stones
>>>> were
>>>> seen.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know who else is buried in this graveyard or who these
>>>> people
>>>> were? Was the Hannastown graveyard really in use in 1782? I suspect
>>>> not.
>>>> I suspect that John Steel knew of his ancestors farm and this lesser
>>>> cemetery site in 1895. Mary had to be there by 1895. So he marked it
>>>> but
>>>> not the family's impressive one north of the road. This Steel family
>>>> site
>>>> appears to be on the location of Gallows Hill on the map and just up
>>>> the
>>>> hill from Old Hannastown 0.2 miles.
>>>>
>>>> So where is the original Hannastown graveyard of those that fell in
>>>> 1782?
>>>> Who were they?
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
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