Grace, Yes, it was very, very wrong indeed. I'll go into a little more detail to relate the story as best I can. As near as I can tell, Joseph Reichard and his father, Joseph Reichard Sr., were the original owners of the land. They were likely members of the United Brethren in Christ Church. Today that denomination is merged into the United Methodist Church (our church was a U.B. church prior to mergers in 1946 and 1968 that re-named us a United Methodist Church). The Reichards very generously donated some land on the edge of their property for the use of folks in the community, and United Brethren in particular, who might wish to be buried there. Certainly most of the Reichards were buried there, including Joseph Sr., who died in 1813. It is said that the Rev. Adam Noonan, who was one of the most influential preachers in the United Brethren Church, was buried there also. Now, the United Brethren influence in and around Millheim died out in the 1860s or so. I doubt that the cemetery was used much after the 1870s. It just kind of sat there, along the road on top the hill, bordered on all three sides by farmland. There were something like 30 graves in the plot. I have talked to an old man in the area, and he filled in the rest of the story. Around 1945 or so, a Mr. Yearick bought what had been the old Reichard farm. Apparently when he bought it, if there had been any reservation in the deeds prior stating the cemetery was not part of the farm, it wasn't copied into his deed. It may be that the Reichards never officially gave the cemetery land away, so it always remained a part of that farm. At any rate, Mr. Yearick desired to expand his farm, and to do so, he had to get rid of the old United Brethren burial plot along the road. He pulled out all the tombstones and stacked them up in a pile along the road, on the edge of the plot. The old man I talked to said that Mr. Yearick could not wrest one stone out of the ground; it was too deeply imbedded. That was a simple sandstone with the initials "A. M. S." scratched into it. It remains there today. Like the man who desired to build his barns bigger in the Bible, Mr. Yearick took sick and died in 1951 or 1952, when he was still a fairly young man. By then, however, the damage had been done. People who could use the stones as stepping-stones in a walkway, or worse yet, broken up for the base of cement porches or sidewalks, gradually hauled them away, one by one. The old man recalls that he stepped out of his home one day and looked down the alley to see two teenage girls hauling away the last headstone. He couldn't catch up to them by the time they disappeared from sight. The base of that stone, complete with the stone cutter's name, is the other remaining monument in the cemetery. That last stone was removed some time around 1959. And thus one of the oldest cemeteries in the region was destroyed, and some history was lost forever. Sad, isn't it? 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"