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Mercer
County Cemeteries |
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Mercer
Citizen's
Cemetery
History
of Mercer Citizen's Cemetery
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from History
of Mercer County, 1888, page 373
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Mercer has two burial
places. One of these is the burial ground north and west of the
First Presbyterian Church. It was established at a very early
period, and served to be the last resting place of many of the old and
prominent citizens of Mercer and the vicinity. Of late years it
has been much neglected, weeds and briars growing luxuriantly, and, in
many cases, rendering it almost impossible to reach the monuments and
tablets erected over the graves.
The other is the Citizens' Cemetery, which was established by the act
of the General Assembly, approved April 14, 1842. It embraces
about four acres in the south part of the borough, and was incorporated
by Lewis Weaver, Henry Forker, R. L. Maxwell,
William Maxwell, R. T. Clark, J. R. Hunter, Joseph Gordon, Samuel
Griffith, R. Hanna, J. Sykes, W. McMillan, J. McBirney, John Sloss, B.
Lindsay, W.S. Rankin, B.H. Henderson, John S. Pearson, William M.
Gibson, E. F. Pearson, William Stewart, J. Pew, George Kline, W.Gregory,
Joseph Sheriff, T. Graham, R. Shipler, J. Phipps, J. Pearson, J. Hosack,
A. Stewart, Joseph Shipler, Joseph Forker, E.W. Carter, W.M. Stephenson,
J.L. McQuillan, Thomas J. Mowry, Joseph Thompson, John Moore, A.E.
Eberhart, T.J. Hirst, J. Baskin, John Forker, George Bell, Adam Forker
and J.D. McGill. By charter the
affairs of the organization are to be directed by a president and six
managers, to whom is entrusted the management of the institution.
The grounds are neatly laid out, and shaded, and contain some neat and
handsome monuments.
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