Cemeteries
of
CARBON
COUNTY
It is said every person has three
deaths. The first is the actual
physical death, when the spirit leaves the body. The 2nd death is when the body is lowered into
the grave, never again to be seen in the flesh. The 3rd and final death comes much later, when
all who knew that person have joined him in the afterlife, and the name, even
existence of that person vanishes from knowledge.
Some of the cemeteries in Carbon County have kept good
records of those interred. Others
haven’t, with the only record of those interred being that which is etched in
stone. The phrase “etched in
stone” implies permanence, but in reality that is not true. Even solid stone weathers and erodes,
sometimes helped along by negligence and vandalism. To try to delay that “3rd death”, an effort is
being made to record from the old grave stones what can still be read, lest the
name, and all knowledge of the person laid to rest there, fades into
oblivion.
Much has already been done, and the following is a list of
cemetery records that now appear online.
Of these, only the Mauch Chunk Cemetery and St. John’s Towamensing
Cemetery had good records to work from.
The rest were gathered by recording the info on the old
gravestones. In the case of the
Mauch Chunk Cemetery, record keeping began in the 1860s, although the burials
began about 1819. I’ve spent time
there looking for those graves not in the records and adding them to the
record.
Though much has been done, much more remains to be done in
the preservation of these cemeteries.
Anyone interested in volunteering to help record other cemeteries in the
county, please contact me.
The
following cemeteries are complete lists
Following these, there are several partial
cemetery lists towards the bottom of the page.
In Jim Thorpe
On
the West Side of Jim Thorpe, Carbon’s most historic cemetery, online since
February of 2001. Includes lots of
additional genealogical info, with more to come…
THE UPPER MAUCH
CHUNK CEMETERY
On the East Side of
town, the borough’s other public cemetery
In East Mauch Chunk, in the old
Coalport section of town one of Jim Thorpe’s two Roman Catholic cemeteries –
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
CEMETERY
A work in progress by Bill Auld
In
East Penn Twp., the county’s oldest cemetery (online since 8/2005)
In
Franklin Twp.,
Online
since 2004, some updating done June 2005
In the borough of Beaver Meadows
THE ST. MARY
IRISH CATHOLIC CEMETERY
Added 1/01/2002
Established near
Lehigh Gap in 1844, now within the borough of Palmerton
THE
LITTLE WHITE CHURCH & CEMETERY
Added
12/28/2001
Just
over the county line in Luzerne, but being the resting place for many from
Carbon Co.
ST.
PATRICK’S CEMETERY AT AUDENREID
Added
11/14/2001
In
the east end of Franklin Twp., near Beltzville Dam
ST.
PAUL’S UNION CHURCH CEMETERY AT BIG CREEK
In
the woods of Packer Township, near Weatherly, abandoned, overgrown and very old
OLD
REED CEMETERY
And the
Between
Weatherly and White Haven, on a bluff overlooking Rockport
SALEM
REFORMED CHURCH CEMETERY
&
Added
10/31/2001
THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CEMETERY AT LAURYTOWN
In
the Mahoning Valley near St. John’s Lutheran Church
Added
4/20
Once in the town of Summit Hill, now long gone
Just
outside of Palmerton, one of the oldest cemeteries in Carbon
ST. JOHN’S
UNION CHURCH (OLD TOWAMENSING) CEMETERY
By Tom Jones
Added
5/20/2001
In
the midst of the borough of Nesquehoning
THE
PROTESTANT CEMETERY OF NESQUEHONING
In
Packer Twp., the cemetery most central to the early history of that part of
Carbon Co. north of the Broad Mountain
PACKER
/ ST. MATTHEW’S CEMETERY
Added
7/26/2001
Near
the border of Kidder and Penn Forest Townships is the
Adjacent
to the Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery
[Formerly this cemetery was listed as a separate cemetery, but is now included as part of the Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery – this link will take you to that site]
Added 5/24/2001
Although
located in White Haven, Luzerne Co., this partial listing is of families with
ties to Carbon County
Charlotte’s
lists for
In Mahoning Twp.
&
In Lehighton
THE
GNADENHUETTEN / LEHIGHTON CEMETERY
Beth’s
lists for
In East Penn Twp.
There are many other cemeteries in Carbon not mentioned here. Hopefully,
they too will one day be added to the list of records.
The
Carbon Co. History and Genealogy
home page
2001
Background image is of he
Benjamin Barge monument in the Upper Mauch Chunk Cemetery
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