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Remembering our ancestors is a very important way to honor them and their contributions
to the history of the Bennett's Valley. The Mt Zion Historical Society in conjunction with the Elk County PAGenWeb
genealogy project is taking on another
extensive project to honor our ancestors and share the results of this work with those genealogists
and family researches of the Bennett's Valley. This project will be to compile a listing of all those interred
at cemeteries within and near Jay and Benezette Townships. Please see the links to access our cemetery listings.
If you see any mistakes ( we're sure there are some) or updates needed please let us know.
You will find more genealogy information (census records, cemetery listings, etc) for our ancestors from the Bennett's
Valley and Elk County at the
Click here for the Elk County
PAGenWeb website.
Cemetery listings are a great resource for searching our ancestors. We and
other contributors have recently
visited many of the cemeteries in the Bennett's Valley and are providing an as up to date listing as we can.
These listings have been reviewed against other information available
and added or changed to make these as complete as possible- which none ever will be.
The spirit here is to share these listings for all to see- There is no copyrighting of these
listings intended- but the contributors wish that these are not copied for any commercial purpose.
If you have any that you can contribute that would be great. Let me know.
Having recently gone to many of these cemeteries we've found and learned from other contributiors
that many of these smaller cemeteries are primarily very old family plots such as Morey, Lewis,
Dennison, Rothrock,and Kincaids and are in disrepair. Three of these have but one stone remaining.
The Dennison plot has three broken and desecrated grave stones. Hopefully at some future date
someone will attempt to upgrade some of these sites. The Potter Goff cemetery on Gray Hill Road
only has two readable grave stones. There must be at least twenty gravestones of native rock which
have no information except to identify a grave site.
We are also including some additional web sites that you may find of interest regarding
the history and genealogy of Bennett's Valley and Elk County.
Elk County History from the Elk County Historical Society |
History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter, Pennsylvania J.H. Beers & Co as transcribed by Nathan Zipfel for the Elk County Genealogy Site |
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