(Located in an area locally known as
Jednota)
Researched by Linda J. Wileman
This cemetery is
located in Lower Swatara Township, Middletown, Pa. The area this
cemetery is found in is locally known as Jednota. At one time this farm
cemetery was the burial ground of the Stoner family and allied kin. All
that is known to be left of the farm is this cemetery and the adjacent
farm house, which is now a restaurant currently known as Bratina’s and
formerly known as the Old Stone Inn. The cemetery is located on
Pennsylvania State Road 230, which goes through Harrisburg, Steelton,
Highspire, Middletown, Elizabethtown and Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
The following table
shows the names and dates inscribed on the headstones in the cemetery.
The first column gives the name or initials found on each stone. The
second column gives the dates and other identifying inscribed on the
stone.
|
Name and
other identifying information |
Dates |
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C. G.
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No dates
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L. R.
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No dates
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B.Z.
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No dates
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A. Lincoln
(son of Michael and Mahilda) |
b.
4-26-1861 d. 8-10-1881
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John Stoner |
d. 2-5-1869
12 yrs. 3 mo. 5 days
|
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Mahilda N.
(wife of Michael Stoner) |
b.
4-26-1831(?) d. 4-16-1874
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Michael
Stoner (father) |
d.
10-29-1862 53 yrs 7 mo. 2days
|
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Lydia
Strayer (wife of Michael) |
d.
4-28-1851 36 years
|
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Elizabeth
Stoner |
b. 5-?-1844
d. 2-7-1869
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Jacob
Stoner |
d.
9-17-1829 30 years
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Henry W.
Stoner |
b.
11-22-1841 d. 12-28-1879 88 years
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Mary A.
Stoner |
b. 5-8-1815
d. 12-22-1910 (this was last burial in this cemetery
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Solomon
Stoner |
d.
12-3-1881 32 yrs. 3mo. 5 days
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Mary F.
Stoner |
d.
3-24-1879 32 yrs. 14 days
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M. S.
|
No date
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S.
|
No dates
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E. S.
|
No dates
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Henry
Stoner |
d.
10-17-1816 53 yrs. 6 mo. 11 days
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Mary Ann
(wife of Henry Stoner, daughter of George and Mary Neibling) |
b.
5-18-1775 d. 9-15-1844
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Elizabeth
Stoner |
b.
4-29-1866(?) d. 3-1-1892
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Martha
(wife of Henry Stoner) |
d.
4-17-1825 21 yrs. 7 mo.
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Magdelana
(wife of Henry Stoner) |
d. 4-5-1835
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Henry
Stoner |
b.
8-25-1797 d. 8 -?-? 49 yrs. 11 mo. 8 days
|
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Joseph (son
of George and Barbara Zimmerman) |
d.
11-19-1856 b. 7-9-1840
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Barbara
(Wife of George Zimmerman) (Daughter of H & M. Stoner
|
b.
11-5-1824 d. 8-16-1850
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M. N. S |
No dates
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A small
gray slate stone lies in the corner of the cemetery. On the
stone someone wrote the name Stoner. Under the name Stoner
three words were scratched; My God Knows. Apparently the writer
meant that only God knows who’s buried there.
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Benjamin
Core |
No dates Civil War Soldier 93rd
Pa. Vol Co. I
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Blank Stone |
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M.N.R.
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No Dates
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Blank Stone |
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S.A.S.
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No Dates
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M.S.
|
No Dates
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Blank Stone
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L.S.
|
No Dates
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Martin
Wetzel |
d.
6-13-1854
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Charles
Ritterspach |
d.
1-20-1852 32 yrs.
|
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Mahala
Neavling (consort of Charles) |
b.
1-15-1827 d. 10-16-1852 25 yrs. 9 mo. Days
|
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Edward (son
of Charles Mabal Ritterspach) |
b.
1-14-1851 d. 6-7-1851 |
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C. M. R.
|
b.
6-13-1848 d. 12-19-1850
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Catharine
Ghistwite |
b.
10-15-1784 d. 12-29-1855
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Blank stone |
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Blank stone |
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Mary Ann (dau
of Michael and Lydia Stoner) |
6-1835 3
yr. 6 mo.
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Infant of
Michael and Matilda Stoner |
d.
8-21-1853 5 days
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Infant of
Michael and Matilda Stoner |
Born and
died 3-1848
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H.S.
|
No dates
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Sarah Ann (dau.
of Michael Stoner) |
d.
7-22-1814 3 yrs. 19 days
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H. Z. S.
|
No dates –
Civil War Soldier
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H.W.S.
|
No dates
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George
Stoner |
b.
3-28-1835 d. 6-24-1902
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