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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 ...
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...