Old Pioneer Cemetery

(Herrold Family Cemetery)

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THE CEMETERY

The Old Pioneer Cemetery (a.k.a. - The Herrold Family Cemetery; a.k.a.- Herrold's Graveyard) is located on Peffer Valley Rd., Port Trevorton, (Union Township), Snyder County, Pennsylvania.  In it are buried members of the Herrold family and soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

John George Herrold, Sr. (N15)

"In honor of John George Herrold, Sr., 1725-1803, first Herrold in the Susquehanna Valley and the pioneers of that period are gratefully remembered by their posterity.  Dedicated July 3, 1937, by the Memorial Committee of the Herrold Reunion Association.  Memorial Committee:  T.G. Herrold, Chairman; Ned E. Herrold, Treas.; Chester S. Herrold, Francis Shaffer, Frank S. Attinger, Dr. Charles A. Fisher, Family Historian."

Anna Maria Benesch Herrold (N16)

"Anna Maria Benesch Herrold

Wife

Muhlbach - Miesau, Germany - 1725 

Chapman Township - 1802

Mother of all Snyder County Herrolds

Herrold Reunion - 2002"

John George Herrold, Jr. (N23)

"George Herrold

Pvt. 3 Bn. Pa. Mil.

Rev. War.

April 27, 1779

John George Herrold, Jr."

Other Tombstones and Monuments in the Old Pioneer Cemetery

                

Casper Reed Captain 3 Bn.Pa.Mil. Rev. War. August 1802

At rest Indian 1835 John Borka Soldier of Washington 1777

Nicholas Straser Pennsylvania Pvt. 6 Bn. Berks County Mil. Rev. War. 1814 John Nicholas Strawser.

Philip Burket     Pennsylvania             Pvt. Harris's Pa. Regt.        Rev. War   January 9, 1835   Philip Burkhart.