Judy, In 1795 what was then Potter Township was much larger than it is now. Today that area would be the townships of Potter, Gregg, Harris, part of College, and part of Penn; it also contained the present day boroughs of Centre Hall, part of Millheim and part of State College. Not all of those areas were settled at that early date, however; thus, there are a few cemeteries that may have contained your ancestor. In present-day Potter Township the Centre Hill Cemetery may have been so old; it was associated with the Presbyterian Church. The oldest stone dates from 1801, but there are many unmarked graves, and simple fieldstones with no inscriptions. The churchyard at Emanuel's Union Church, Tusseyville, has gravestones as old as 1785 within its limits. Going down the valley, Reichard Cemetery (first associated with the family and later used by the United Brethren Church) was in existence as early as 1800, although it was destroyed in 1949 and most of the gravestones lost. There is no record of this cemetery other than what I was able to record from the two remaining markers in 1997. Many of the early burials were made at Aaronsburg, in neighboring Haines Township (which was carved from Potter in 1790); the Reformed Cemetery there dates from about 1797; the Lutheran Cemetery from 1794. Many people were buried on their farms with little trace of their graves remaining. William Sankey, the pioneer of that family, was buried on a fallow field on his Potter Township farm in 1794; the exact site remains a mystery to this day. There was a graveyard along Cedar Creek on present day Route 45, in Harris Township, which was established about the year 1790 or 1791. About ten or twelve stones remain today. There was to have been a Presbyterian church built on the site, but this never occurred. The cemetery is in poor repair, with almost all the stones knocked over by pasturing Black Angus Bulls, or leaning against trees. I recorded this cemetery in 1996 or thereabouts, and it is published in the Centre County Genealogical Society's work "The Cemeteries of Harris Township." The mother (or wife?) of General Potter is supposed to have been buried there, in 1791. There is no marker. These are the oldest graveyards I can think of that still survive in that vicinity. The Abraham Standford family, murdered by the Indians in 1778, were buried in the corner of a field on their farm. Two soldiers (Thomas Van Doran and Jacob Shadacre) defending Potter's fort were similarly killed in an engagement with the Indians that year, and were buried along present day Route 45. Their graves are marked. No other persons are buried at either location besides those above named, so far as is known to history. Justin Justin Kirk Houser Genealogist/Researcher of Central PA and Beyond Main Lines: Houser, Breon, Shawley, Ranio (and others) President, BAHS Class of 2003 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"