Butler County PA Archives Photo Tombstone.....Harmonist Cemetery, Harmony, PA ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ellis Michaels Sep 2006 Photos may be viewed at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/butler/tombstones/harmonist-jackson.htm Cemetery: Harmonist Cemetery, Harmony, Jackson Township, Butler County, PA DIRECTIONS TO CEMETERY: 1. From Rt 79, Take Zelienople Exit 2. Take Rt 68 West towards Harmony/Zelienople. 3. Cemetery located on left just outside Historical Harmony District. GPS COORDINATES: (northeast corner) Lat: N 40 48.101 Long: W080 07.404 Elevation: 930' Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Marker: HARMONIST CEMETERY Burial Place of Harmonist Society, 1805 - 1815. Graves were not marked. The stone wall was built in 1869, after the Harmonists had returned from Indiana and settled at "Old Economy" in Beaver County. Historic Harmony Inc Metal Informational Marker: HARMONY SOCIETY CEMETERY The Harmony Society covered its unmarked graves with rocks and fenced the cemetery. Elias Zeigler was paig $6,030 in 1869 to wall it with stones quarried from a hillside near the Little Connoquenessing, a mile to the northeast, that were shaped and laid by Charles, Jacob and George Cable. The unique Mossaic tablets gate weighs more than a ton. Exposure has obliterated German inscriptions above the gate. Across Top HIER RUHEN 100 MITGLIEDER DER HARMONIE GESELLSCHAFT GESTORBEN VON 1805 BIS 1815 (HERE REST 100 MEMBERS OF THE HARMONY SOCIETY WHO DIED FROM 1805 TO 1815) Center of Panel ICH WEISS, DASS MEIN ERLOSER LEBT UND ER WIRD MICH HERNACH AUS DER ERDE AUFERWECKEN. Hieb Job 19.15. (I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH, AND THAT HE SHALL AWAKEN ME FROM THE EARTH. Job 19.25.) SELIG IST DER UND HEILIG, DER THEIL HAT AN DER ERSTEN AUFERSTEHUNG; UBER SOLCHE HAT DER ANDRE TOD KEINE MACHT; SONDERN SIE WERDEN PRIESTER GOTTES UND CHRISTI SEYN, UND MIT IHM REGIEREN TAUSEND JAHR. Jesus Rev. 20.6. (BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE THAT HATH PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION; OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HATH NO POWER, BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS. Revelation 20.6.) SEY GETREU BIS AN DEN TOD, SO WILL ICH DIR DIE KRONE DES LEBENS GEBEN. Jesus Rev. 2.10. (BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE THEE THE CROWN OF LIFE. Revelation 2.10) Left Arch ICH BIN DIE AUFERSTEHUNG UND DAS LEBEN, WER AN MICH GLAUBT, DER WIRD LEBEN, OB ER GLEICH STURBE. Jesus John 11.25. (I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE; HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME SHALL LIVE THOUGH HE DIE. John 11.25.) Right Arch ES WIRD DIE POSUANE SCHALLEN, UND DIE TODTON WERDEN AUFERSTEHEN UNVERWESLICH, UND WIR WERDEN VERWANDELT WERDEN. Paulus 1 Cor. 15.52 (THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE TRANSFIGURED. 1 Cornthians 15.52.) Historic Harmony Inc Metal Informational Marker: JOHANNES RAPP The Harmonist did not mark graves. This stone memorializes Johannes Rapp, son of Harmony Society founder Johann Georg Rapp, who was injured fatally in an industrial accident; the location of his grave within the cemetery is unknown. Non-Harmonists donated the stone, which the society accepted reluctantly. Allheir leigt und ruht der Leichnam von JOHANNES RAPP welcher Gestoren den 19ten Decemb. 1783 Gestorben den 27slb Jull, 1812 Heir liegtein Thonaus Schliesset auf das edre salz zum neuen Leibe der Lebens froh wird stehen auf. Here lies and rests the body of JOHANNES RAPP who was born on 19 Dec 1783 died on 27 Jul 1812 This stone made of clay will stand here until decay breaks down the salt of the earth to a new body (which) happy of life will arise