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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter, having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and "....seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" After the Am...
This cemetery is located in Farmers Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania. It's also known as St. John's Union Cemetery . Find a Grave
Fairview Cemetery may, from outward appearances, seem to be a public cemetery; it is however a church-related one. The cemetery was an outgrowth of a purchase of land by St John's Lutheran Church in Millheim. The congregation itself was organized on 28 April 1877 and had its first council meeting in October of the same year. From that point on the development of the church was rather dynamic. ...
There are no records to show if this cemetery existed at this location prior to the erection of the church in 1834. The earliest burial found was in 1835. Jacob Albright, founder of the Evangelical Association began preaching in Christopher Spangler's home in Brush Valley in 1806. The congregation grew and in 1834 the first unit of the church office in Rebersburg was dedicated. Without any spec...
This cemetery is located on 305 Heckman Cemetery Road, Spring Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
The Eagle Cemetery Association was chartered in August 1866 with 2 1/2 acres of land for burials near the Eagle Iron Works. The Eagle Iron Works was started by Roland Curtain in 1810 when he erected the first forge at Curtin. He moved his residence to Bellefonte in 1821. These are a few burials in the cemetery from as early as the 1830s. The first directors of the Cemetery Association in 1866 ...
This cemetery is located on 1032 Benner Pike, State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This project is for those buried in St. Peter's Lutheran & Reformed Cemetery, Rebersburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
Rev. Michael Schenck I and his family came to land one mile east of the present-day Howard near Bald Eagle Creek in December 1795. When one of the children died in 1797, a graveyard was started near the family dwelling. As other deaths occurred in the family and neighboring families, more interments were made. Many of the earliest graves were marked with shaped fieldstones and no inscriptions o...
The Christian Disciple Church was begun in May 1832 when Nathan Mitchell baptized candidates in Beech Creek. After worshiping in Nestleroad's Grove until it became too cold, they moved to a barn and then to a log schoolhouse which soon became too small for the crowd. A plot of ground was secured from Simon Lingle, where part of the cemetery now is, and a forty by the forty-five-foot building wa...
Bellefonte Academy was a historic school building located at Bellefonte, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The original building was built in 1805, as a two-story, rectangular limestone building. It was enlarged between 1839 and 1845, with the addition of two bays and wings to the north and south. After a fire in 1904, the building was rebuilt with the addition of a third story and the addition of a...
The full name of this cemetery is Snow Shoe-Askey Cemetery , although it's always referred to as "Askey's". The second permanent settler to the Snow Shoe region was Samuel Askey and his family. In the fall of 1818, he settled on a tract of land that now contains the cemetery bearing his name. According to the Linn& and another booklet, done by Gilliland in which no dates were given [ but I bel...
The Marsh Creek Advent Church was organized in 1848 and a church was built in 1849. An acre of ground was presented by General Irvin and Colonel Gregg. The cemetery adjoins the church. From an entry in his diary, Stanley Watson was selling cemetery plots in 1906. Stanley and John Thomas Watson, whose land adjoined the church property, sold or donated cemetery plots to many persons over the year...
This project is for those buried in Stover Cemetery, Aaronsburg, Centre County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is located at the southwest corner of the intersection at Farmall Drive and SR 45 (Penns Valley Road); East of Aaronsburg. It is also known as Wolf's Chapel Cemetery . Find a Grave