AKA: Ziegler Cemetery
Number of Burials (approximate): 350
Dates of Activity: 1840 - present
Documentation/Publication:
CCGS, The Cemeteries of Dunnstable Township (2006)
Directions/GPS:
From the intersection of Jay and Water Streets in Lock Haven, head South one block and turn left onto East Main Street (PA Route 150). Travel 4.3 miles and turn left onto Stewart Road. Travel 0.2 mile and turn left at a sign which reads St. John Cemetery. Follow the gravel road (TR 429) a few hundred yards uphill to the cemetery on a bluff overlooking the Susquehanna River.
N41 09.853 W77 22.749
Landowner / Caretaker:
Ziegler Cemetery
RD 1
Lock Haven, PA 17745
Condition/Needs:
Very Good
History:
Burials commenced in St. John Cemetery at an early date, the first known interment being that of Henry Strayer, in May 1840. Many interments of the Strayer, Ziegler, Deis, Getz and other early families were made in the 1840s and 1850s. A log church was built for the Lutheran and German Reformed congregations of the area.
On November 18, 1872, Jacob Gets and Catharine his wife, of Dunnstable Township, deeded to Jacob Sands and John Mateer, trustees of the German Lutheran and German Reformed Congregation of St. John's Church, a tract of 57 perches in Dunnstable Township, for the sum of twenty dollars.
On August 25, 1902, the St. Johns Cemetery Company presented a petition to be chartered in Clinton County. They represented themselves as maintaining, conducting, ornamenting and beautifying a place for the burial of the dead. The first members of the Board of Trustees were A. F. Goodman, W. P. Messerly, J. F. Schab, John L. Hinzi and George A. Getz. The company was chartered September 24, 1902.
George Getz Ohl, board member, superintendent, and secretary of Woolrich Woolen Mills, was a long time active member of the cemetery board until his death in 1902. Burials continue in the cemetery to this day.
St. John (Ziegler) Church was later torn down and the structure was reassembled in the Woolrich Community Park.