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BB15'1995-97 (survey, 15 stones)

During1995-1996-1997, Blanche Blizzard saw 15 gravestones at the McAninch Farm Cemetery,

and made a layout sketch ("McAninch Cemetery" "Near Ohl on Copenhauer Rd" "March 1995"),

reported in the "McAninch Farm Cemetery, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania" 1997 article. [Note 4]

An exact 2023 re-reading of Blanche’s cemetery layout sketch drawing (dated "March 1995")

can be summarized here. Blanche reported seeing 15 stones, arranged more-or-less in 5 rows

(left-to-right) and 5 columns (top-to-bottom), and quoting the exact text written on her sketch

(with multiple text lines on some stones, shown in ""s), following her cemetery layout sketch

(the compass orientation North-South-East-West is not marked on her drawing, and is unknown).

Stones ‘St’ 01-15 (numbered sequentially here), rows 1-5, and 5 columns, indented left-to-right:

(St01, Row1, Left) "A I M"

(St02, Row1, Center) "__?__"

(St03, Row2, Left) "Almira J" "Daug W L & J Mc" "1855?"

(St04, Row2, Center) "Elmer"

(St05, Row2, Right) "I J M"

(St06, Row3, Left) "N E M"

(St07, Row3, Center) "R J M"

(St08, Row4, Left1) "Rebecca" "J & H Mc" "9-26-1849" "14yrs 9mos 11d"

(St09, Row4, Left2) "W T M A"

(St10, Row4, Center) "H H M"

(St11, Row4, Right1) "Alvin H" "10-10-1885" "2yrs 1mo 22d"

(St12, Row4, Right2) "Isabel" "1856-Daug" "H & J Mc"

(St13, Row5, Left) "W M T" "Son H.H." "4-2-1841" "6mos 5d"

(St14, Row5, Center) "Henry H. Mc" "5-15-1875"

(St15, Row5, Right) "Samantha Dumbert"

"5yrs 5mos 5d" "11-20-1850"

BB'10Graves (analysis, 10 graves, 2023)

Traditional ‘headstone’ (tombstone) monuments and smaller ‘footstone’ markers were both used

in the McAninch Farm Cemetery. As surveyed by Blanche Blizzard in 1995, the 5 or 6 stones

with only 3 or 4 letters (initials) are now believed to be footstones, placed at the opposite end of

the grave from the main headstone monument or tombstone marker.

There appear to be five pairs of headstones and corresponding footstones marking some of these

McAninch graves. Analysis of the relative positions of the 15 stones drawn by Blanche Blizzard

leads to a net total of ten graves on her survey, with 9 different individuals that can be identified

from the combinations of these 15 stones. and another grave marked "Unknown" on her survey.

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McAninch Farm Cemetery, Beaver Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (2023)

McA. Family Hist. NL v.XXXI (31) n.2 / Nov. 2023 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2023-20