My eldest daughter attends college at IUP in Indiana, and on our drives to and from the college, I noticed a road that turns off to Georgeville in East Mahoning Twp., Indiana Co., PA. According to my records, John Samuel Knisely and his wife Susanna (Lingenfelter) Knisely raised their twelve daughters in Georgeville, and in fact, John and Susanna are alleged to have died there, but no one seems to have death dates or burial information for them. The eighth of their twelve daughters was my great great grandmother, Minvera (Knisely) Bish, wife of Michael Bish. On May 5th of this year when we went to IUP to move Jaren home for the summer, I made my husband take a "detour" to Georgeville to see if we could find any cemeteries and/or a burial place for Susanna and John Samuel. The narrow road twists and turns all over the place, and has some very charming Amish farms all along both sides of the road, but we could not find any cemeteries. In fact, I don't even remember seeing any CHURCHES in Georgeville, which was quite small. (We were kind of in a hurry and maybe didn't explore as much as we should have.) Can anyone on the list give me the lowdown on cemeteries in or near Georgeville? Better yet, does anyone know where the Kniselys may be buried? John Samuel Knisely was born Nov. 19, 1807 in Bedford Co., PA, and Susanna Lingenfelter was born circa 1812 also in Bedford Co., PA. TIA, Sherry Bish Jesberger

Sherry, I can tell you there is a church with cemetery and old graves at Gilgal. This is not too far from Georgeville. I was there about 5 or 6 years ago and the church, Presbyterian, was going strong. Your people might be buried there. I would try to go to the Indiana County Historical Society Library located in downtown Indiana - Clark House is the name of their location. They have a wonderful library and much information on cemeteries. It was in that library where I was given maps and directions to Gilgal and also to cemetery at North Point. This is just an excellent place for information. Best wishes, Elizabeth Jones ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry" <genequeen@alltel.net> To: <PAINDIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:41 AM Subject: [INDIANA] Cemeteries in or near Georgeville, East Mahoning Twp. > My eldest daughter attends college at IUP in Indiana, and on our drives to and from the college, I noticed a road that turns off to Georgeville in East Mahoning Twp., Indiana Co., PA. > > According to my records, John Samuel Knisely and his wife Susanna (Lingenfelter) Knisely raised their twelve daughters in Georgeville, and in fact, John and Susanna are alleged to have died there, but no one seems to have death dates or burial information for them. The eighth of their twelve daughters was my great great grandmother, Minvera (Knisely) Bish, wife of Michael Bish. > > On May 5th of this year when we went to IUP to move Jaren home for the summer, I made my husband take a "detour" to Georgeville to see if we could find any cemeteries and/or a burial place for Susanna and John Samuel. The narrow road twists and turns all over the place, and has some very charming Amish farms all along both sides of the road, but we could not find any cemeteries. In fact, I don't even remember seeing any CHURCHES in Georgeville, which was quite small. (We were kind of in a hurry and maybe didn't explore as much as we should have.) > > Can anyone on the list give me the lowdown on cemeteries in or near Georgeville? Better yet, does anyone know where the Kniselys may be buried? John Samuel Knisely was born Nov. 19, 1807 in Bedford Co., PA, and Susanna Lingenfelter was born circa 1812 also in Bedford Co., PA. > > TIA, > > Sherry Bish Jesberger > > > ==== PAINDIAN Mailing List ==== > Search the INDIANA CO mailing list ARCHIVES > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > Enter: PAINDIAN >