Shawnee Cemetery, Plymouth, Pennsylvania

Shawnee Cemetery
Details
Established 1873
Country United States
Coordinates 41°14′31″N 75°57′41″W / 41.24190°N 75.96140°W / 41.24190; -75.96140
No. of interments 15,000
Find a Grave Shawnee Cemetery

Shawnee Cemetery in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, is located on 13-1/2 acres on a hillside overlooking Wyoming Valley. The Shawnee Cemetery Association was chartered on September 5, 1873, after which land was purchased from Ira and Oliver Davenport, and John B. Smith. Interments began in the fall of 1873, many of which were, initially, reinterments from other older cemeteries. [1]

A view of the Shawnee Cemetery taken about 1908 by the photographer Fred Clemow.


Notable interments

  • Morgan Bevan, (died in 1924), served as Plymouth's 18th Burgess from 1906 to 1909.
  • Elijah Coxe (died in 1918), was elected Plymouth's 16th Burgess in 1900.
  • Stanley Woodward Davenport (died September 26, 1921), member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Captain John Dennis (died in 1887), was elected Plymouth's 10th Burgess in 1881.
  • Daniel B. Loderick (died in 1898), was elected Plymouth 14th Burgess, serving from 1893 to 1897.
  • Alfred J. Martin (died in 1913), was elected Plymouth's 12th Burgess in 1889.
  • David D. Morris (died in 1919), was elected Plymouth's 19th Burgess in 1909.
  • Abram Nesbitt (died in 1846), veteran of the Revolutionary War.
  • Peter C. Roberts (died in 1894), appointed Plymouth's 13th Burgess in 1890.
  • George Washington Shonk (died August 14, 1900), member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • John Jenks Shonk (died May 1, 1904), coal operator, served in the Pennsylvania State Legislature from 1875 to 1878.
  • John B. Smith (died July 19, 1904), coal operator, served in the Pennsylvania State Legislature from 1877 to 1880.
  • Philip Walters (died in 1916), served as Plymouth's 15th Burgess from 1897 to 1900.

References

  1. ↑ History of Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming Counties, Pa. (New York, New York: W.W. Munsell & Co., 1980).
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