Cemeteries: WPA Records of Joseph Berkey Graveyard, Paint Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Joseph Berkey Graveyard
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Paint Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated on the R.C. Hoover Farm about one mile southwest of Ashtola 
                            and about 500 yards north of Roaring Forks, in Paint Twp. Somerset Co. PA.
  
    Additional Information: The graveyard is on top of a hilly field back of the farm*- buildings 
                            it can most easily be reached by following the right fork of the road 
                            at the old stone bridge about a quarter of a mile.  The cemetery is 
                            then on the right of the road, and lies under a large old hemlock tree 
                            in the center of the field. It is thickly overgrown with brambles and 
                            has been unused for a number of years.  
  
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    The Graveyard contains 12 unmarked graves, probably those of various members of the 
    Berkey and Gordon families. The Farm was formerly the property of Joseph Berkey, 
    an early settler (who married into the Gordon family) and established the plot 
    as a final resting place for the members of his family. 
    
    Mrs. Milton Shaffer R.D. 1, Windber PA. has the Berkey Family Bible, 
    and can tel [sic] much of the Berkey Family History.
    
    (BERKEY)
    (GORDON)
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  12 Unidentified graves