Cemeteries: WPA Records of Burial Gorund on old Rhoads Farm, Lower Turkeyfoot Township, Somerset County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by the Somerset County Federated Library System and its constituent libraries, the Meyersdale Public Library, Somerset County Public Library, Windber Public Library and Mary S. Biesecker Library. Transcribed by: Beverly Sellers-Niel and proofread by April Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/ To view other cemetery listings in this project, go to http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/wpa/toc.html __________________________________________________________ Cemetery Name: Burial Gorund on old Rhoads Farm Survey Date: circa 1934 State: Pennsylvania County: Somerset City/Town/Township: Lower Turkeyfoot Township Cemetery Location: Burial Ground on Old Rhoads farm. Situated one mile from Ursina, Lower Turkeyfoot Twp. Somerset Co. Pa., on road to Somerset. Farm now owned by Mathew Keck. Additional Information: [NOTE: This text file contains three different cemetery names which includes slight variations and information regarding the Samuel Rugg family.] IMAGE-URL: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/wpa/lower-tf/smcems/RHOADES-GRAVEYARD01.jpg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAST-NAME FIRST-NAME BIRTH-DATE DEATH-DATE AGE/AGED INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUGG Samuel . . . . RUGG Priscilla "Prissy" . . . w/o Samuel Rugg, known as Prissy RUGG Child . . . child/o Samuel and Priscilla Rugg RUGG Child . . . child/o Samuel and Priscilla Rugg RUGG Child . . . child/o Samuel and Priscilla Rugg RUGG Child . . . child/o Samuel and Priscilla Rugg RUGG Child . . . child/o Samuel and Priscilla Rugg UNKNOWN . . . . other member of Rugg family UNKNOWN . . . . other member of Rugg family UNKNOWN . . . . other member of Rugg family Total 10 graves, all unmarked --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMAGE-URL: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/somerset/wpa/lower-tf/smcems/RHOADES-GRAVEYARD02.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cemetery Name: Israel Rhoades Farm Grave Yard also known as Rugg Cemetery Cemetery Location: Situated on the farm now owned by Matthew Keck, Lower Turkeyfoot Twp., Somerset Co. PA. Of Ursina, on a hill about 1 mile from old stone house owned by John Harned, on the Humbert Road. In this Grave Yard are supposed to be about ten or more graves, according to tradition there are buried here: Samuel Rugg; his wife, Priscilla Rugg; several children; and several other members of the Rugg Family. The Prissy Legend: Priscilla Rugg was generally known by the name of "Prissy", and if we may judge by the legends that cluster about her banem she must have been a notable character. It seems she was mentally unbalanced to some extent. Tradition has it that she owned a white horse which she used to ride over the countryside. Making frequent visits to the camps of Revolutionary War Soldiers, where spent considerable of her time. The old road passed the site of this grave yard and came out at the top of the hill at the farm now owned by John Garlitts. After the death of Prissy, she continued her rides - if the legend is true. And to this day the natives insist she is still riding the same white horse, and making the hills ring as she promised to do before she died.