Cemeteries: WPA Records of Yoder Cemetery, Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Yoder Cemetery
    Survey Date:            circa 1946
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Stonycreek Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated on the Lester Pyle Farm in Stonycreek Twp., Somerset County, PA. 
                            Near line of Ephriam Walker, Josiah Weigle, and Frank Cable Farms 
                            adjoining Lands of David Snyder and Uriah Lehman Farms.
  
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    LAST-NAME   FIRST-NAME   BIRTH-DATE   DEATH-DATE   AGE/AGED   INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Adult        .            .            .          .
    UNKNOWN     Child        .            .            .          distinctly visible not inscribed.
  
    Also said to contain in all 13 graves, some are partly destroyed by strip mining. Said to be Yoder Families. 
    Also about 4 rods north of Cemetery, a Mrs. Yoder was buried who committed suicide by hanging about 1860. 
    Her lone grave was enclosed by a rather elaborate stone wall now entirely destroyed.
    Stripping Employees said they saw bones going over the ground embankment.
  
  Total 13 Graves
  Lester Pyle, John Henning, E.C. Saylor 
  22 Jul 1946