Shoops Church, Dauphin Co., can easily be found on a USGNIS map. Go to http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form Fill in: Feature Name- Shoops State - Pennsylvania Feature type - scroll to 'Church' County - Dauphin Send query. Next page click on "Show feature location" Next page, wait for server to bring up maps (it may take a little time). Scroll down and there is Shoops Church at the red dot, south of Skyline View, southeast of Linglestown, and northwest of Hershey. You can use the USGNIS maps to find almost everything, churches, cemeteries, ridges, valleys, arroyos, basins, flats, bridges, parks, etc., etc. It's a long list from which to choose what you are hunting. Nelson R. Sulouff In Arizona ////////////////////////////////// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A B" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 9:23 AM Subject: [PADAUPHI] Remains of the Mumma Family Re-interred at Shope's Meeting House > Dear Doug and Charles: > > I checked back in my extensive newspaper archives on Dauphin County, and > found an article in 1897 which indicates that the remains of quite a number > of the Mumma family were removed from the old cemetery on the Mumma farm, > near Highspire, to the cemetery at Shoop's Church. The article gives the > names and tombstone dates for all those reinterred. It indicates all the > Mummas reinterred were from John Mumma, who died Aug. 13, 1857 aged 83 > years. At the end of the article it indicates "In this cemetery repose the > remains of the first Mummas who settled in Pennsylvania," which I take is a > reference to the cemetery at Shoop's Church. Maybe someone else can comment > on the location of this cemetery today, as I don't even reside in > Pennsylvania. > > Anyone wanting a copy of this send an SASE to me within a month from this > date to: > > Richard A. Bisbee > 135 Covell Rd. N.W. > Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5932