Cemeteries: WPA Records of Zimmerman Farm Old Burial Ground, Jenner Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Zimmerman Farm Old Burial Ground
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Jenner Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated on the Henry Zimmerman farm 
                            about one and one half miles south west of Stoyestown in Jenner Township, Somerset Co. PA.
  
    Additional Information: The farm before its purchase by Mr. Zimmerman forty years ago 
                            was owned by a Short, a Gardner had taken out the patent from the state.     
                            
                            Mr. Zimmerman's father told him about the old grave yard supposedly 
                            containing twenty three graves, and showed him its location.  
                            It was grown over with sassafras trees twenty feet high.  
                            Mr. Zimmerman cut down the trees and underbrush and noticed 
                            a plot of land about forty by fifty feet slightly elevated. 
                            
                            The "grave like" appearance of the surface of the plot and the 
                            regular placing of a few flat field stones indicate a burial plot.  
                            The only two people known to be buried there. 
  
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    LAST-NAME   FIRST-NAME   BIRTH-DATE   DEATH-DATE   AGE/AGED   INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    BERKEY      Adult male   .            .            .          reported to be the first buried
    GARDNER     Adult male   .            .            .          choked to death on a piece of meat while attending
    ~           ~            ~            ~            ~          ...a party at this place
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  Total 23 graves