CEMETERY: Maurer-Gwin Cemetery, Juniata Gap, Blair County, PA

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                       Tombstones in Maurer-Gwin Cemetery
                                    
  The following are the tombstones recorded in the Maurer-Gwin Cemetery 
on August 30, 1999.  This small family cemetery is in the woods in 
Juniata Gap near the SE corner of the intersection of Gwin Road 
(sometime called the back road by the Penn State Altoona Campus) and a 
road the locals call the Coleman Loop. Gwin Road ends at a T 
intersection with the Coleman Loop. The entry road to the cemetery 
appears to be a driveway to a pair of houses (which it is) which goes 
up across from where Glichand road splits off the Coleman Loop.  
Approximately 50 to 60 percent of the tombstones are not readable.  
Many, especially those for children, were nothing more than field stone 
markers.  Others have deteriorated to where they are unreadable.  
  Several are included in this listing from the research of the late 
Wilma Emes Kelly, where her notes indicate people were buried there or 
where obituaries list them as being buried there.  Where more complete 
dates are known and no conflict exists, the more complete dates have 
been given here.  Names have also been expanded where known, thus A. L. 
Maurer is listed as Maurer, Abraham Lincoln.
  This census was conducted by Scott Troutman with the assistance of 
Barbara Troutman and Andrew Peterman.

NAME                     BORN           DIED

Degand, Dianna J.                       1951
     (next to grave Our Baby 1938-194?)

Gladwell, George W.      10-10-1859
     (h. Sarah Gladwell)
Gladwell, Sarah A.       3-17-1841      9-15-1910
     (w. George Gladwell)

Gwin, A                                           Civil War veteran
     (h. Sarah Gwin)
Gwin, Maxwell            6-14-1884      6-1-1901
     (Co. K 76 Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers)
Gwin, Sarah              12-12-1804     3-22-1895
     (w. A. Gwin)

Kephart, Joseph          1841           12-6-1931

Larson, Henry            1890           1951
     (Pvt. 1st Company C 305th PH S16BN - WW I)
     (h. Iva Larson)
Larson, Iva M.           1892           1934
     (w. Henry Larson)

Howard, George                          Nov 1902   Pvt (Civil War)

Hoyt, Sallhos                                      (Civil War Veteran)

M., K. E.                  1883           1907

Matthews, James                         9-8-1887
     (Pvt Pennsylvania Volunteers Co. G 12th Regt.- Civil War)

Maurer, Abraham Lincoln  1872           1974
     (h. of Margaret Howard Maurer)
Maurer, Albert Clair     1913           1913 (no marker)
     (s. Sherwood M. Maurer, twin died at birth)
Maurer, Barbara (Manley) 2-13-1808      1-31-1877
     (w. of Jacob Maurer)
Maurer, Betty            5-5-1915       16-7-1999 
Maurer, Edward Blair     1913           1913 (no marker)
     (s. Sherwood M. Maurer, twin died at birth)
Maurer, Homer Wray       9-12-1915 9-12-1915 (no marker)
     (s. Sherwood M. Maurer, died at birth)
Maurer, Howard Clark     1917           1917
     (s. Sherwood M. Maurer, died at birth)
Maurer, Irene (Burkhart) 11-3-1875      11-11-1942 (no marker)
     (w. Sherwood M. Maurer)
Maurer, Jacob            1789           Dec 6 1868
     (h. Barbara Manley, war 1812 veteran)
     Note grave is mismarked with a Civil War veteran flag holder.
Maurer, James Knox Polk  3-20-1845      5-5-1910
     (h. Matilda Ann Maurer)
Maurer, Jesse            1834           stillborn
     (s. Jacob Maurer)
Maurer, John Raymond     4-6-1891       4-18-1893
     (s. James Knox Polk Maurer)
Maurer, Margaret H(oward) 1875          1948
     (w. of Abraham Lincoln Maurer)      
Maurer, Marvin Roy       5-21-1880      10-16-1892
     (s. James Knox Polk Maurer)
Maurer, Matilda Ann (Miller)6-11-1850   8-6-1922
     (w. James Knox Polk Maurer)
Maurer, Sherwood Mellville 28-3-1866    21-4-1933 (no marker)
Maurer, Susie            3-5-1864       8-20-1878
     (d. George & E. Maurer)
Maurer, Tobias           1839           1851
     (s. Jacob Maurer)
     
McCartney, Irene G.      Mar 1860       12-17-1918
     (w. Martin L. McCartney)
McCartney, Martin L.     2-3-1845       3-1-1920
     (h. Irene McCartney, Civil War veteran)
McCartney, Savilla       3-30-1859      10-3-1876

Miller, John Kagerise    8-29-1852      3-24-1934
     (brother of Matilda Ann Maurer)

Thompson, Clanna E       12-10-1866     6-10-1914 
     (w. of Theodore Thompson)
Thompson, Gladys E.      1918           1921
Thompson, Theodore B.    11-9-1861      7-20-1923
     (h. of Clanna Thompson)

Waite, Bertha            12-3-1871      7-13-1902
     (next to graves labeled Bertha Baby, Infant, Infant)

Wills, J. P.                            
     (Company A 205 PA Infantry - Civil War)
Wills, Samuel A.         4-6-1836       3-3-1916
     (Co. 5 PA reserves - Civil War)

Yon, Sarah J. (Wills)    2-28-1870      6-16-1890 
     (wife of William Yon - no tombstone but listed in obituary as 
being buried in Maurer Cemetery)

Yon, William             10-18-1865     7-Aug-1899
    (no tombstone but listed in obituary as being buried in Maurer 
Cemetery)

Young, Anne                             8-15-1878
     (w. Joseph Young)
Young, Joseph            6-10-1831      6-14-1911
     (h. Anne Young)
Young, William E.        4-2-1865       6-14-1930