Display Patriot - P-179435 - John HEMINGER/HEMMINGER II
John HEMINGER/HEMMINGER II
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P-179435
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Grave relocated to Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Braddock Road Ave., Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA in 1926
No FInd-a-Grave record there 18 Sep 2020
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
In 1882 it was described as just back of the church, on Church Street, but is now abandoned for burial purposes. It was the first and only graveyard in the village, and among the old settlers are the following interments (over 47 listed there, with the last one about 1879)
This cemetery is now extinct with re-internments, date unknown, in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Ref. History of the county of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882. pg 543
Author: Clark Roy Brocht
John Hemminger was born, May 1758 or 1759, in Lancaster County, PA. He died 05 April 1842, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA. He enlisted 21 April 1777 as a Private in Col. Patton’s Regiment Continental Line. He later enlisted in the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment of Capt. Joseph Powell, Commander at Germantown, PA. He was discharged in Lebanon County, PA. Pension certificate # 5222.
He married Mary Ann (?) born 24 February 1766 in Frederick, MD. She died 14 January 1847 in Pittsburgh, PA or Mt. Pleasant, PA.
Children: Joseph, born 1791
John, born 1793, married Mary “Polly” Schneider
Annie C., married Andrew Aikens.
John Hemminger and Mary Ann are buried in the large Mt. Pleasant Cemetery on the top of the hill where the large guns are located.
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