Donna, Do you know if you have any Snell's in this book? Thanks, Jeanette from OH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Heller Zinn" <djzinn@pa.net> To: <payork@rootsweb.com>; <gjsmith58@comcast.net>; <PAADAMS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [PAYork] Oldest cemeteries in York, now Adams County? > Hello Judy and fellow listers: > > I'm reading my copy of The History of Adams County - 1886 and here's a > brief > synopsis of the dates of oldest churches... which may help to locate the > oldest cemeteries? > > Huntingdon Twp. > The oldest church appears to be Christ Protestant Episcopal Church which > is > to date back to 1756. In about 1755 a church ws erected on the "Glebe". > > The next oldest looks to be Rock Chapel, near York Springs. This was to > be > the first Methodist Church built in the county - erected between 1773 and > 1776. > > Tyrone Twp. > There were only two churches listed - both beginning in the 1840s. One > was > the United Brethren in Christ and the other was the Evangelical Lutheran > Society of Heidlersburg. > > One of the oldest cemeteries appears to be in Conowago Twp. - the Conowago > Chapel-yard - as it is named in the book. It states: "In 1752 the body of > Dudley Digges, who was shot by Jacob Kitzmiller, was buried here." > > Another of the oldest cemeteries may be the St. Michael's Lutheran > Cemetery, > near McSherrystown - also in Conowago Twp. - where the book states: "It > is > thought that there Rev. David Chandler, the first Lutheran preacher, was > buried in 1744." > > In Cumberland Twp., it appears that "the old Marsh Creek Cemetery commonly > called McClellan's" could be the oldest in that county with deaths/burials > listed as far back as 1758..... as well as the graveyard known as Black's > Cemetery where several of the deaths occurred in 1749. > > These are just a few of the eldest within these townships.... there may be > some older in the other townships. > > Donna Heller Zinn of Newville, Cumberland Co., PA. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <gjsmith58@comcast.net> > To: <payork@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:20 PM > Subject: [PAYork] Oldest cemeteries in York, now Adams County? > > >> Would anyone know the location of the oldest cemeteries in York, now >> Adams > County? . These cemeteries would be located in either Tyrone or > Huntington > townships. >> Thank You >> Judy Smith/Colorado > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAYORK > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAYORK Message Board are > gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed > messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed > messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. > ************ > Visit the York County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~payork/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAYORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

You can check that publication yourself. The History of Adams County was added to the Adams County Archives a few years ago. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/adams/ Additionally, The History of York County is available on the York County Archives site. Both are part of the USGenWeb Project. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/york/ Kathy -----Original Message----- From: payork-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:payork-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Edward Robison Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:55 PM To: payork@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAYork] Oldest cemeteries in York, now Adams County? Donna, Do you know if you have any Snell's in this book? Thanks, Jeanette from OH. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Heller Zinn" <djzinn@pa.net> To: <payork@rootsweb.com>; <gjsmith58@comcast.net>; <PAADAMS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:16 PM Subject: Re: [PAYork] Oldest cemeteries in York, now Adams County? > Hello Judy and fellow listers: > > I'm reading my copy of The History of Adams County - 1886 and here's a

Hello Jeannette and Fellow Listers: In the History of Adams County, PA. - 1886 is: SCHNELL, H. K. - pg.325, pg. 327 SCHNELL's Store - pg.325 pg. 325 BOROUGH OF NEW OXFORD ......Mathias Martin built the third house (now occupied by Thomas Himes), in 1800. About this time a house was built where Mr. Gitt erected his residence in 1876. George Bange, the first store-keeper, lived in a house built by George Kuhn about 1800. Schnell's shoe store is built on the site. ....... A petition was presented to the judge of quarter sessions in April, 1874, asking for the incorporation of the borough. This was granted August 20, 1874, and the first election was held at the Washington House in October 1874. Dr. J. W. Hendrix was elected burgess in 1874, and served down to 1885, when T. Bowers was elected. The councilmen elected annually are named in the following list: ........... 1879 - W. D. Himes, J. S. Gitt, Levi Wagner, Dr. Smith, H. K. Schnell, J. B. Gross. pg. 327 OXFORD TOWNSHIP CEMETERY New Oxford Cemetery - Incorporation of this cemetery was granted by the court on January 12, 1865. I was about five and one-half acres of ground a half mile west of the borough, running south from the turnpike to the Conowago Creek. .....The present officers are president, A. S. Himes; managers, H. K. Schnell, A. C. Diehl, William D. Himes and Abraham Sheely; secretary, Wiliam D. Himes. There was no SNELLs listed in the index. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: [PAYork] Oldest cemeteries in York, now Adams County? > Donna, > Do you know if you have any Snell's in this book? Thanks, Jeanette from OH. > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hello Judy and fellow listers: > > > > I'm reading my copy of The History of Adams County - 1886 > >and here's a > > brief > > synopsis of the dates of oldest churches... which may help to locate the > > oldest cemeteries?