Site Description

This page has been designed to provide you with genealogical information regarding the cemetery, information recorded on the stones, photographs of the cemetery, links to other genealogy-related sites, and a summary of my Eagle Scout project to clean-up the cemetery.

Contacting Me

If you have any questions you can e-mail me at [email protected]; or, write me at:

  Sam Lentz
  614 Bowman St.
  Millersburg, PA 17061

Cemetery Description

The cemetery, containing around 100 stones, is located in Halifax, Pennsylvania (about a half-hour north of Harrisburg). While traveling north on Rt. 225, roughly a mile past Peter's Mountain, you'll see the Matamoras Community Church on your right. The front of the building is very tall and slopes downward toward the back. About 200 yards past the church, take a right turn onto Matamoras Road. If traveling south, Matamoras Road is less than a half-mile past the turn-off for Rt. 147. There are two signs for Camp Hebron on Rt. 225. The northmost sign is at Matamoras Road. After turning, the cemetery will be 100 yards down the road to your left.

The stones in the cemetery are very old, mostly from the 18^th and 19^th centuries. The headstones were in bad repair, and to my knowledge, no records had been kept of the information. Whether due to natural causes or vandalism, the stones have often been knocked over in the cemetery, and a new plan for action was needed. Enter my Eagle Scout project! :)

Click HERE to begin a tour of the entire cemetery.

Click HERE to download a copy of all of the information we have recorded and a printable map of the cemetery. Please note that this file is a Zip file. If you don't have a Zip compression utility, download WinZip.

Note: I apologize for the appearance of the site if your are using Netscape; some of the aesthetics might not line up perfectly. All of the information should still be there, however. Netscape wouldn't install correctly on my computer, so I couldn't check it while I was designing the site. :(