More detailed information on the cemetery can be found here: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~palackaw/cemeteries/Petersburg/
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Petersburg Memorial Cemetery
The Petersburg Memorial Cemetery at 962 Paul Avenue in Scranton was established in 1853 and hasn't been used in decades. Very little maintenance is done here, parts are very overgrown, and a portion near the back is pretty much inaccessible. The iron fence across the front is heavily damaged, as is a number of grave markers near the entrance. Below are some photos from September 15, 2013.
Always a shame when places such as this are neglected :-(
ReplyDeleteI have been trying for years to have something done here. Julian Koch is my great great grandmother. You show her grave marker picture on your page.
ReplyDeleteThanks for highlighting the problems here.
09/28/2024 my brother and I visited the Cementery today. Somebody had really cleaned up a lot of the overgrowth but not near the back. That is a wreck. So many of the headstones are knocked over. My 3x Great Grandfather Adam Weingart, and his wife Philomena are both buried there but we could not find there headstone and it was not for lack of trying. It made me so sad to see the condition of this cementery. Does anyone know where the official records are kept? Town Hall? Dunmore Cemetery? I know they are there and he was one of he initial families to start their lives there coming from Germany in 1847. He built the 2nd framed house .
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