Ruth GAGLIARDI is planning a trip to Beaver Co. and would like to locate the graves of her ancestors Jonathon C. COLEMAN and his wife Kezia. I saw their graves at a small cemetery in Raccoon Twp. in 1968 while searching for my RAMBO relatives. On a return trip there in 1981 we could not locate several of the gravestones including Kezia COLEMAN's. The Crail Farm and Center Church Cemetery on Moffet Mill Rd. is in Racoon Twp about 4 1/2 miles east of the Shippingport Bridge which crosses the Ohio River. The cemetery is just west of Raccoon Creek midway between where Fishpot Run and Gums Run enter Racoon Creek. My maps are a bit old so if anyone can add to or correct these directions please let us know. Directions from Rt. 18. Rt. 18 runs generally in a SW direction through Southern Beaver Co. from Monaca to Frankfort Springs. It crosses Holt Rd. at a point about 2 miles directly East of the Shippingport Bridge. Turn East on Holt Rd. Heading East you will pass through the small community of Holt at Patterson Rd. Continue another 3/4 mile East on Holt Rd. and turn Right on Moffet Mill Rd. [I don't know if there is a road sign for Moffet Mill Rd. At one time Holt Rd. continued on to Raccoon Creek. My maps seem to indicate that it fizzles out now]. Moffet Mill Rd. meanders its way downhill toward Raccoon Creek. Travel about 1/2 mile and start watching for the cemetery which is on the left [north] side of the Road. The cemetery is just before you reach a road that intersects on the right and runs south along Raccoon Creek. If you get to Raccoon Creek you've gone too far. The cemetery may be hard to spot. The last time I was there in 1981 it was overgrown with trees. Most of the gravestones had fallen flat. A few were leaning against trees. There may have been a church at the site at one time, but any evidence of the building is long gone. I did hear of a Boy Scout project to clean up the cemetery. Hopefully it is in better shape now. I suggest that you stop at the farm house just west of the cemetery on the North side of the road. The man that lived there in 1981 said that the cemetery was on his property and was not happy that we entered without his permission. I believe that his name was Mr. HOLLISTER. He said that there had been motorcycle gangs and wild parties in that remote area in recent years and that the cemetery had been vandalized. We soothed him by promissing to send him a write up of the inscriptions that we found at the cemetery. In 1968 and 1981 Jonathon C. COLEMAN's gravestone was leaning against a tree in the North West corner of the cemetery. It read: Jonathon C. COLEMAN died Aug. 9, 1863 in his 99 yr. There was a nearby footstone still in the ground with initials J C C In 1968 we also saw his wife's gravestone. We couldn't locate it in 1981. It read: Kezia wife of J. C. COLEMAN Died Jan. 9th 1852 in her 66 yr. I will comment more about the missing gravestones in another message. Regards, Gary R. Tafini gtafini@tir.com Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA