Exeter Township has many cemeteries. Some are small family cemeteries such as the McMillan on a hill off Route 92 south of the William Coray home, now owned by Bertha L. Wilson. Jonathon S. Bodle was burried here in 1824. Other family burial plots are the no longer existing Lewis Cemetery on Sutton Creek Road near Rout 92; the Mantanye Cemetery on Lockville Road; and off Peck's Road;, the vandalized Jones Cemetery. Lewis Jones was buried here in 1818. Other family burial grounds still in use are the Huff Cemetery along Rout 92 in Harding and the Dreisbach Cemetery nearby.
The Baldwin Cemetery, also known as the Harding Cemetery, was named for the Baldwin family which settled on an original land grant in the area. It is described by Earnest Gray Smith in "The History of Wilkes-Barre" as follows: "Still another of the older burying grounds first dedicated as a family plot and later opened to public use, has been described by Mr. Hatron in his Sunday Independant sketches as follows: The Baldwin Cemetery which is located in Exeter Township is outstanding because of the great length of time over which it's use has been extended. Interments were first made at the very start of the nineteenth Century. At the present time, more than one hundred years later, it is still the burial ground of people of that section". Now encompassing the Baldwin Cemetery is the Mountain View Cemetery, widely used by area residents as well as non residents because of it's beauty.
The Mt. Zion United Methodist Church has it's own burial ground established as a private cemetery and taken over by the church in 1851. The oldest stone in it is dated 1853. Veterans of the war of 1812, the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and World Wars I and II are buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
The Dymond Hollow Methodist Church has a private cemetery, the ground for which was given by John Booth and Mary Whitlock Dymond and dedicated in 1869. |
