CEMETERY: Pillow Cemetery, Partial, Mifflin Township, Dauphin County, PA

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Pillow Cemetery, Dauphin Co., Pa.
Abstracted by Josiah V. Thompson, Nov. 16, 1923, and extracted from the 
Josiah V. Thompson Journals 

Last Name  First Name  Middle Name Birth        Death        Comment
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Witmer     David                   Sep 8 1824   May 19 1896  age 71/6/11
Witmer     Mary                    Sep 10 1829  May 19 1891  age 62/2/9, w/o David Witmer
Witmer     J           Frank                    Dec 2 1910   age 56/6/21
Witmer     John        H           1851         1915         
Weiser     John                                 Mar 1 1905   age 62/4/11, Pvt, Co I, Pa Cal Vol
Weiser     Jestina                                           
Bohner     Henry                   Dec 31 1786  Sep 27 1874  age 84/8/27
Bohner     Esther                  Oct 16 1807  Mar 8 1870   age 62/4/23, w/o Henry Bohner

Pillow, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillow,_Pennsylvania  
Pillow was founded in 1818 by John Snyder, a land developer from 
Mercer County, as Snydertown (Schneiderstettle). The borough was 
incorporated as Uniontown on April 20, 1864. When the town got its 
first post office in 1847, a post office under the name Uniontown 
already existed. A postal official substituted the name "Pillow" 
after General Gideon Pillow, who was popular at the time for his 
victories in the Mexican-American War. Over the next hundred years, 
the new name slowly took hold, and on November 2, 1965, the residents 
voted to change the official name of the town to Pillow.

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