Cemeteries: WPA Records of Ellis Shoemaker Burial Ground, Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Ellis Shoemaker Burial Ground
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Elk Lick Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated 1/2 mile northeast of Springs Post Office, 
                            400 yards southeast of the buildings.
    Additional Information: Quite a large number of graves in ground, 
                            but only one of them inscribed, that of George Folk.
  
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    LAST-NAME     FIRST-NAME           BIRTH-DATE    DEATH-DATE    AGE/AGED   INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    FOLK          George               25 Oct 1761   25 Dec 1825   .          G x F (This was undoubtedly George Folk.
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...The most remose ancester of the Folk clan in this section)
    (FOLK)        (Jacob)              6 Dec 1790    Mar 1858      .          one grave (Jacob Folk)
    (FOLK)        (Abraham)            .             .             9y         s/o Jacob Folk, burned to death in home fire
    (FOLK)        (Christina)          .             .             7y         d/o Jacob Folk, burned to death in home fire
    (FOLK)        (Annie)              .             .             .          child
    (FOLK)        (William)            .             .             .          child
    (FOLK)        (Jonas)              .             .             .          infant
    (FOLK)        (Elizabeth Sayler)   .             .             .          .
    SMITH         Peter                .             .             .          .
    SHOEMAKER     Mathais              .             .             .          .
    HERSHBERGER   Jacob                .             .             .          child (died during an malignant type of dyptheria)
    HERSHBERGER   Nancy                .             .             .          child (died during an malignant type of dyptheria)
    HERSHBERGER   Henry                .             .             .          child (died during an malignant type of dyptheria)
    UNKNOWN       Cathering            .             .             .          child (died during an malignant type of dyptheria)
    FOLK          Harriet              .             .             .          child (died during an malignant type of dyptheria)
    HUFFERT       Philip               .             .             .          (Froze to death on a cold & stormy winter night. His body lay
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...under a deep snow drift, and was not found for 3 months
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...before the snow melted & exposed the body. Philip was roaming
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...nature & had no family connections, therefore he was not missed
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...for a long time. This happened quite near where this
    ~             ~                    ~             ~             ~          ...burial ground is located).
  
  Total graves 16