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Sweitzer’s Memorial Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 20, 2011

Sweitzer’s Memorial Cemetery is located on the western side of Main Street (Route 225) heading south out of the center of Berrysburg toward Elizabethville.  The cemetery is also known as the “E.U.B. Cemetery.”  It’s a large cemetery with several sections and offers a nice view of the valley – including the spire of the St. […]

Peace Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 19, 2011

Peace Cemetery is located within the Borough of Berrysburg on Third Street and North Main Street.  The Peace Church of the United Church of Christ is located about one blocks from the cemetery.  This is an old cemetery and contains the graves of many Civil War soldiers. A representative group of four Civil War graves […]

Old Methodist Cemetery, Berrysburg

| July 18, 2011

Old Methodist Cemetery is located west, just outside the borough streets of Berrysburg, traveling on Route 25 toward Millersburg.  It’s on the right side and there is no clearly marked entrance.  In fact, a sign on the only access road notes that the road is a private driveway and warns, “Do Not Enter.”  Many Civil […]

Descendants of Johann Philip Klinger, Immigrant

| June 26, 2011

Johann Philip Klinger (1723-1811) is buried in Zion (Klinger’s) Church Cemetery, Erdman, Lykens Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.  Johann Philip was an immigrant and Revolutionary War soldier, and one of his sons, Johann Peter Klinger (1773-1858) married Catharine Steinbruch (1774-1845), the granddaughter of Johann Peter Hoffman (1709-1797), and was the subject of a post this past […]

Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger & Catharina Steinbruch

| June 21, 2011

There are many branches of the Klinger family in the Lykens Valley area. Many persons with the Klinger surname served in the Civil War. One good attempt to sort out a major branch of the Klinger family was made by Max E. Klinger and is entitled The Descendants of Johann Peter Klinger and Catharina Steinbruch. […]