CLINTON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY CEMETERY GUIDE            

MUNICIPALITY:  Noyes Township
CEMETERY NAME:  Noyes Cemetery SCHADT NUMBER:  116

AKA:  Westport Cemetery

Number of Burials (approximate):  150

Dates of Activity:  1872 - 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 33.3 miles into Westport.  Turn right onto Bitumen Road [past the bridge in Westport].  Travel 0.3 miles and turn right onto Plank Road.  Travel 0.1 mile and turn left at "Noyes Cemetery" sign.  Follow gravel road back a few hundred yards to cemetery on hillside.  There is a parking area to your left, but the ground is rutted.  The cemetery is not maintained and is overgrown, harboring ticks and snakes.

GPS = N41 17.948 W77 50.891

Landowner / Caretaker:

Noyes Cemetery

Shintown, PA 17764

 

Condition/Needs: 

Very poor; limbs and trees and brush must be removed, and many stones repaired.

 

History:

The definite history of this cemetery has not been established.  It probably was started as a community cemetery as Westport became increasingly populated with the lumber boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The land for the cemetery may have been given by A. C. Noyes or his brother Charles R. Noyes,prominent local residents.  The first burials appear to date to 1872, and, while in very poor condition, the cemetery is occasionally used today.