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Loop Family Cemetery

Memorials	:	0
Location	:	Lemasters, Franklin County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8618670, -77.8445500
Description	:	This cemetery has around two dozen stones, few of which are legible today. Most of the inscriptions listed in the memorials within this cemetery come from two separate records that were made years ago. The most recent published record of inscriptions is for inscriptions read on 12 June 1969 by John F. W. Pfluger and published in 1986. Transcripts of these inscriptions appear in Vol. 18 of the Tombstone Inscriptions of Franklin County Pennsylvania, which is available at the Franklin County Historical Society. It names the cemetery the, "Loop Farm Family Cemetery," and reports that it is approximately one mile... Read More	This cemetery has around two dozen stones, few of which are legible today. Most of the inscriptions listed in the memorials within this cemetery come from two separate records that were made years ago. The most recent published record of inscriptions is for inscriptions read on 12 June 1969 by John F. W. Pfluger and published in 1986. Transcripts of these inscriptions appear in Vol. 18 of the Tombstone Inscriptions of Franklin County Pennsylvania, which is available at the Franklin County Historical Society. It names the cemetery the, "Loop Farm Family Cemetery," and reports that it is approximately one mile north east of the village of Lemasters in Peters Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. An earlier record of burials in the cemetery is a diagram attributed to "Samuel H. Garns, son of Samuel Garns, Sr," [sic] which was included in the Appendix to "The Garns Family Roots," written by Miriam Garns and published in 1987. We believe that she created the diagram from something he had drawn in order to include a printed version of the diagram in her book and in the process attributed it to him as noted above. A copy of the diagram may be seen with the cemetery photographs. Miriam Garns was a great-granddaughter of Samuel Garns, who was buried in the cemetery when he died in 1880. Her book may also be found at the Franklin County Historical Society. Samuel H. Garns had to have been Samuel Henry Garns, who was born in 1861 and died in 1962. He was a first-cousin, once-removed, of Miriam Garns and would have been a young man when many of the burials in the cemetery occurred. However, he was actually a grandson of Samuel Garns, Sr., not a son as reported by Miriam Garns. Since he was more than 50 years older than Miriam Garns, she may have presumed he was the son of Samuel Garns, Sr. The diagram has the words "child" and "infant" behind a number of names. For example, "William Brindle (child)" appears three times, "Samuel Brindle (child)" appears four times, "Henry Garns (infant)" appears once and "H. Garns (infant) (infant)" appears once. We know that Henry Garns had three stillborn daughters and have never come across evidence that a Henry Garns or an H. Garns died as an infant. Therefore we believe that these were actually the children of William Brindle, Samuel Brindle, and Henry Garns who either were never named or whose names could not be recalled by Samuel H. Garns when he drew the original diagram. We do not believe that three Brindle children in the community were named William Brindle or that four Brindle children in the community were named Samuel and that they all died and were buried near each other in the same cemetery. To believe otherwise requires one to accept that several families gave the same name to either brothers or cousins who all died and that none of these families duplicated the names of daughters that died as infants or children.

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Longitude: -77.8445500

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