Old Replogle cemetery, Snyder farm graveyard, Bedford Co., PA.
"Snyder farm graveyard, near New Enterprise; Bloomfield Twp.,
Bedford Co., PA:
"As I recall, New Enterprise's post office was in the back of a
store. The postmaster gave me easy-to-follow directions to the
Snyder farm--almost straight down the hill.
"Mr. Roy Snyder gave us directions to the cemetery which was
close to his home. He took us there on our third attempt to find
it. While we were in the correct location, we could not see the
cemetery or its fence over his corn.
"...To get to the cemetery, we went down the road from his
home, a left turn and another left onto a dirt road going up a
hill a short distance through a grove of trees. At the top of the
grove, we parked on a fairly flat land that was not plowed. The
cemetery was fairly close to where we parked...less than 1/3 mile
away, to the right of the car.
"The cemetery had a wire fence on the side where the Replogle
tombstones were. The fence is probably around the entire cemetery
but it and the cemetery could not be seen as they were covered
with brambles, which were also on the wire fence we crawled
over...I find myself thinking the Replogle graves were in a
corner of the cemetery. Mr. Snyder knew where the Replogle graves
were and had worn leather gloves and moved the brambles as well
as he was able to from the Replogle tombstones: Rinehart, Jr.;
son Jacob ("Jacob, son of Rinehart Replogle" appeared to be
written with a stick); "wife of Rinehart Replogle," Catherine
Brown; they were in one row facing another row where Rinehart,
Jr.'s son George (who supposedly died in Iowa) and his first wife
Sally Brown are buried, their tombstones facing Rinehart, Jr.'s
and family.
"Jacob's tombstone...I fail to see how there was enough room
for a gravesite between mom and dad.
"...I discovered that the cement-slab-tombstone for Rinehart,
Jr.'s son in the cemetery was for a "Jacob" and not for a "John."
"The Replogle Genealogy" shows that Jacob left many descendants
and did not die until about 1862 in Ohio.
"DAR in their November 1980 magazine said the gravesite for
Rinehart, Sr. had been located in this cemetery. Mr. Snyder was
not aware of it...I do not believe proof for his gravesite in
this cemetery has been found.
"When Thomas C. and Robert E. Imler indexed this
cemetery, years before 1980...they found no gravesite for
Rinehart, Sr. They give names for all tombstones except for two
unmarked fieldstones. The source is "Bedford Co. PA Cemeteries,"
p. 432, Vol. 8, 1964(?)."-Madeline Raymond, 12 Nov. 1990.