Cemeteries: WPA Records of Claypole Cemetery, Summit Township, Somerset County, PA 
    
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    Cemetery Name:          Claypole Cemetery
    Survey Date:            circa 1934
    State:                  Pennsylvania
    County:                 Somerset
    City/Town/Township:     Summit Township
    Cemetery Location:      Situated in Summit Twp., Somerset Co., PA. 
                            on the Oscar Shaffer farm south of the buildings 
                            about 15 rods in the woods probably cleared at one time.
  
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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      Child              .             .               .           .
    UNKNOWN      Child              .             .               .           .
    UNKNOWN      Child              .             .               .           .
    UNKNOWN      Child              .             .               .           .
    UNKNOWN      Child              .             .               .           .
    [NOTE: more than likely some of the following names are some of the above unknown names.]
    CLAYPOLE     Family members     .             .               .           Said to contain members of the Claypole Family
    CLAYPOLE     Molly              .             2 June 1859     71y         An estate of Mary Claypole was probated at Somerset in 1860,
    ~            ~                  ~             ~               ~           ...and a burial record of Bishop C.G. Lint
    CLAYPOLE     Elizabeth          .             .               .           Will of Mary Claypole dated 8 Dec 1851 probated 30 Apr 1860
    ~            ~                  ~             ~               ~           ...names daughters Mary & Elizabeth Claypole, in the
    ~            ~                  ~             ~               ~           ...meantime Elizabeth Claypole died and is likely buried here.
    CLAYPOLE     James              .             .               .           One grave is possibly James Claypole an early settler on the farm.
  
  Total 10 graves
  E.C.S. 1936
  
  
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    LAST-NAME    FIRST-NAME         BIRTH-DATE    DEATH-DATE      AGE/AGED    INSCRIPTION and ADDL-INFORMATION
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    UNKNOWN      .                  .             .               .           1 field stone visable. 
    Said to contain 3 graves of Claypole people, probably James Claypole.
  
    Mary Claypole buried here made will dated 8 Dec 1851 - 
    probated 30 Apr 1860 names daughters Mary & Elizabeth Claypole
    in the meantime Elizabeth Claypole died, and is like [sic] buried here.
  
    NOTE: Cemetery description for second page is slighty different than first page.
    Situated in Summit Twp., on the farm of Oscar Shaffer formerly the August Heining farm in the woods
    at the edge of the field next to the house, south of the house about 15 rods near a large chestnut stump.