Upcoming Cemetery Walk Will Feature Prominent Citizens

A cemetery walk through the graveyard in downtown Loysburg will be held Sunday, Oct. 3, beginning at 2 p.m. In case of inclement weather, the walk will be held the following Sunday at the same time. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend. Persons may bring a stool or light-weight lawn chair with them if they feel they may need to sit down at some of the grave sites with longer histories to be presented.

The walk will be led by David Snyder, who led a similar walk 10 years ago and who has been asked to do it again. He is a member of the adjacent St. John’s Reformed Church and will share information about that church’s founders who are buried there, including Mr. Snyder’s great-grandparents.

Burial sites to be visited include those of two Loysburg residents who perished in the great Johnstown Flood of 1889 and an unnamed young Italian immigrant who drowned while swimming in nearby Yellow Creek while there to help build the right-of-way for a never-finished railroad that would have connected central Morrisons Cove with Everett and Bedford.

Grave sites of prominent citizens to be mentioned include those of Henry Harrison Fisher, Hon. Joseph B. Noble, Daniel Lingenfelter, Henry S. Fluke, John Dittmar, Samuel B. Fluke, John and Samuel Nicodemus, James Beaver Butts, Benjamin F. Jamison, William Snyder, Joseph Markey, George W. Karns, Joseph Bayer and William H. Aaron.

Following the walk, those who are interested may drive with Mr. Snyder to the older Loysburg cemetery, just south of town, where he will point out the grave of Martin Loy Sr., one of the earliest settlers and for whom the town is named.