Cemetery Transcriptions

Felgar Road Cemetery

Directions: Take Route 31E towards Somerset. Where Routes 31E and 381N intersect go approximately 7/10 mile, turn left on 381N towards Kregar; 381N will cross 130, go approximately 4 miles to Felgar Road. You will see the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the right. Mailboxes in this area list their address as Stahlstown (Westmoreland County). Bear to the right on a small gravel road. The cemetery is on state game lands (Forbes State Forest). Do not attempt to visit this cemetery in the winter to spring. Road is only passable with a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

Row 1 (starting at the farthest red post; right to left)

  1. Reitz, Rose A 1901-XX
  2. Tiger, Mertin J b 4-3-1883, d 10-1911
  3. Sunken stone
  4. Sunken stone
  5. Sunken stone
  6. Sunken stone
  7. Sunken stone
  8. Sunken stone

Row 2 (left to right)

  1. Sunken stone
  2. Showman, Noah (couldn't read dates)
  3. Showman, Sarah L d/o F and M Showman, d 1822
  4. Showman, Ella C d/o F and M Showman, d 11-16-1833, age 13 years
  5. Showman, Mary b 12-15-1840, d 4-14-1905
  6. Showman, Joseph b 7-29-1840, d 8-22-1918 (PA Volunteers; civil war veteran)
  7. Moore, Zebulon d 7-1893
  8. Moore, Lydia d 8-6-1896, age 92 years
  9. Small stone
  10. Missing stone; base is all that's left

Row 3 (right to left)

  1. Tiny stone unreadable
  2. Tiny stone unreadable
  3. Tiny stone unreadable
  4. Tiny stone unreadable
  5. Tiny stone unreadable
  6. Tiny stone unreadable
  7. Tiny stone unreadable

Row 4 (right to left)

  1. Joseph or Moses (last name unreadable)
  2. Philip (last name unreadable)
  3. Israel (last name unreadable)
  4. Unreadable
  5. Unreadable
  6. Unreadable
  7. Unreadable
  8. Nedrow (first name unreadable)
  9. Nedrow, Henry d 12-1881, age 39 years, 5 months, 1 day
  10. Merringer, Peter b 2-22-1891, d 9-26-1913
  11. Small stone
  12. Small stone

Row 5 (left to right)

  1. Knupp, Anthony 1852-1910; Knupp, Elizabeth 1850-1938 (wife)
  2. Knupp, Pious T b 1-25-1886, d 12-23-1953 (son)
  3. Bisel, infant daughter of CS and Phebe Bisel d 1921
  4. Small stone
  5. Knupp, Belle L b 5-21-1882, d 6-12-1908
  6. Small stone
  7. Knupp, Emanuel d 11-22-1893, age 81 years
  8. Knupp, Howard (?)
  9. Knupp, Levi d 2-23-1891, age 18 years, 8 months

    Very large snowball tree

  10. Knupp, Infant son of Levi and (?) Knupp d 8-11-1822
  11. Knupp, Leah M d 1871
  12. Knupp, Jacob d 6-2-1872, age 71 years
  13. Knupp, infant (stone unreadable)
  14. Knupp, Ephraim
  15. Knupp, Bryan
  16. Knupp, Seth

Row 6 (left to right)

  1. Small stone
  2. Small stone
  3. Small stone
  4. Small stone
  5. Small stone
  6. Small stone
  7. Small stone
  8. Small stone
  9. Small stone
  10. Small stone
  11. Small stone
  12. Small stone
  13. Small stone

Row 7 (left to right)

  1. Small stone
  2. Small stone
  3. Small stone
  4. Small stone
  5. Small stone
  6. Small stone
  7. Small stone
  8. Small stone
  9. Small stone
  10. Small stone
  11. Small stone
  12. Small stone
  13. Small stone
  14. Small stone
  15. Howard, Harvey W 1875-1956; Howard, Clara 1886-1921 (large marble stone)
  16. Small stone
  17. Small stone

Row 8 (left to right)

  1. Small stones
  2. Small stone
  3. Small stone

Row 9 (right to left)

  1. Shaulis, Forest b 5-20-1912, d 4-19-1913
  2. Shaulis, Nila V w/o WE Shawlis b 1-20-1890, d 4-21-1913

    Very large snowball tree

  3. Shaulis, Rebecca b 11-16-1824, d 1-8-1906
  4. Unreadable
  5. More, Isaac A 1844-1907; More, Mary 1836-1907 (wife)
  6. Knupp, Russell E d 3-28-1904, age 19 years, 5 months, 9 days
  7. Knupp, David
  8. Knupp, David
  9. Auman, Olaha (?) 1862-1864
  10. Knupp, Noah s/o D and S Knupp d 9-8-1854, age 8 years, 11 days

Row 10 (left to right)

  1. Small stones
  2. Small stone
  3. Small stone
  4. Knupp, Isaac SR b 3-22-1830, d 11-5-1906, age 76 years, 7 months, 14 days; Knupp, Sally (no dates)
  5. Knupp, Harry E b 2-17-1911, d 2-1-1913
  6. Knupp, Oliver C b 7-2-1908, d 3-1925
  7. Small stone
  8. Small stone
  9. Small stone
  10. Small stone
  11. Small stone
  12. Small stone
  13. Small stone
  14. Tiger, Lucinda w/o MH Tiger, b 6-18-1890, d 10-9-1918

Row 11 (right to left)

  1. Small stone
  2. Small stone
  3. Small stone
  4. Kramer, Joseph V 1863-1915 (father)
  5. Small stone
  6. Hetzer, Daniel b 8-24-1822, d 1-18-1905
  7. Small stone
  8. Hetzer, Mary d 7-19-1889, age 74 years, 5 months, 7 days
  9. Small stone
  10. Broken stone
  11. Small stone
  12. Small stone
  13. Small stone

Row 12 (right to left)

  1. Moore, Rebecca J 1861-1866
  2. Moore, Daniel 1865-1877
  3. Small white stone
  4. Moore, Mary A b 6-3-1822, d 2-28-1899
  5. Moore, George b 6-14-1814, d 10-1832
  6. Small stone
  7. Small stone
  8. Frop, Eva May

Row 13 (right to left)

  1. Shawley, Frank 1890-1933 (Zimmerman Funeral Home marker)
  2. Moore, Mary Ann d/o WM and LB Moore d 8-7-1898, age 5 months
  3. Moore, Roxie Irene d 1923 (Zimmerman Funeral Home marker)
  4. Moore, Helen Ruth d 1924 (Zimmerman Funeral Home marker)
  5. Moore, Lois Louis 1929-1932 (Zimmerman Funeral Home marker)
  6. Small stone
  7. Bisel, Charles S 1877-1925
  8. Small stone
  9. Small stone
  10. Small stone

Cemetery visited and transcribed by Carol Pack Urban 11-25-2000