Cemeteries: WPA Records of Unnamed Cemetery (The Black's Slave Cemetery), Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Unnamed Cemetery (The Black's Slave Cemetery)
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Stonycreek Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated in Stonycreek Twp., Somerset Co., PA. 
                            On the farm of Robert Baldwin.  
                            Formerly the old Black Homestead near Brotherton north of the road route 31, 
                            near the creek and east of the building about 50 rods 
                            under a large oak tree at the edge of the field. 
  
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    LAST-NAME   FIRST-NAME   BIRTH-DATE   DEATH-DATE   AGE/AGED   INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    UNKNOWN     Graves       .            .            .          .
  
    Containing about 18 graves well defined marked with native stone but no inscriptions on any of the stones. 
    No one knows who are buried here; there is a tradition that it is an Indian Burial place. Think this is a mistake.  
    More likely people who were traveling west on the old Glade Road, not residents who resided on this farm, 
    The blacks who were pioneer settlers on this farm are buried south of route 31 in Brothersvalley Twp.
  
  Total 18 graves
  J.J.S. & E.C.S. 
  2 Oct 1935
  
   (Note: In the fall of 1945, the State Archeologists studied this cemetery.
    Through their and the recollections of Mrs. Civilla Weigle it was determined that there were 35 graves in all.  
    These were that graves of the slaves owned by Henry Black, father of the Honorable J.S. Black.) 
    See "A Somerset County Historical Notebook" by Mary Hause. Sesqui-Centennial Publications No. 2.