Ateon-Aton Cemetery

AKA: 

Number of Burials (approximate):  8

Dates of Activity:  1908 - present

Documentation/Publication: 

CCGS, The Cemeteries of Colebrook, East Keating, Grugan, Leidy, Noyes, and West Keating Townships (2008)

Directions/GPS: 

From the intersection of Jay and Water Streets in Lock Haven (the Lock Haven Courthouse), travel west on Water Street for 1 mile.  Turn right onto PA Route 120 (Susquehanna Avenue) and travel 38.9 miles, to Keating.  Turn left onto Keating Road and go over the bridge.  Continue on this road.  At 0.7 mile, the road splits three ways.  Continue on Keating Mountain Road (gravel) which is toward your left but not the leftmost road.  From this point, travel 6.6 miles.  At a "T" in the road, bear right, keeping on Keating Mountain Road, and travel another 4.0 miles, a total of 10.6 miles on Keating Mountain Road.  (At the 7.5 mile point you will pass a turn-off to Dutchman Road and at 8.5 miles a turn-off to Birch Island Road.  Do not take these.)  You will come to a trailer on the left, which is the home of the Summersons in 2006, at 5759 Keating Mountain Road.  The cemetery is across the road, on the right side, up a slope in the woods about 100 yards at the old fence row line.  Parts of the wire fence are still there.

GPS = N41 11.820 W78 02.033

Landowner / Caretaker:

Ateon Cemetery

Pottersdale, PA 16871

Condition/Needs: 

Good

History:

Mortimer P. Aton came to Keating Mountain before the Civil War and opened a blacksmith shop.  He was married to Rebecca Rohn; after their divorce, he remarried to Esther Schmoke.  At his death, he was buried on a piece of property adjoining the Summerson lands.  His family was interred there with him.