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    1. Re: [PACENTRE] Mt Olivet Cemetery
    2. Sue, Penn Township, Centre County, was formed in 1844 from parts of Gregg and Haines Townships. It exists in the southeastern part of the county. The borough of Millheim, which is surrounded by Penn, was detached from Penn Township and made its own borough at January sessions, 1879. Another village in Penn Township is Coburn. The cemeteries in Penn Township are Paradise Cemetery (formerly an Evangelical cemetery, but the church has been torn down), Fairview West Cemetery (opened about 1997 because the Fairview Cemetery in Millheim was getting filled up), and the Salem United Church of Christ Cemetery, on the line with Gregg Township. The Borough of Millheim contains the old Union Cemetery, and Fairview Cemetery. Most of the residents of Penn Twp. and Millheim were buried in these places. Fairview Cemetery is still active; Union is not, but is quite well maintained. The Reichard United Brethren Cemetery once existed on a hill above Millheim. Around the 1940s the farmer who owned it took off all the tombstones and residents carried most of them away. I was up to the site in 1997 and discovered only two gravestones on the plot, most of which was plowed up for a field. It was founded around the year 1800. Justin Justin Kirk Houser Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond Main Lines: Houser, Breon, Shawley, Ranio/Hrynio (and others) President, BAHS Class of 2003 Student Representative, BASD Board of Education Listowner, PACENTRE-L@Rootsweb.com Historian, Schürch Association of North America (specialty Central PA lines) Member, Valley View United Methodist Church "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature"

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