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Thompson or Lock Cemetery

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Thompson or Lock Cemetery

Address:
SR 3002 & Pfoutz Valley Rd
Thompsontown, PA
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Directions: From Mifflintown, Follow SR 3002 [old Route 22] to Thompsontown, about 10 ½ miles. Drive through Thompsontown, passing the square, businesses, homes and Haldeman Park. Drive out of town an additional 1.6 miles. The cemetery is located on the right side of SR 3002 about 40 or more yards off the road, and is visible from that point. A long white board fence is a landmark for locating the cemetery.
History:

This cemetery is perhaps the oldest of all cemeteries in Juniata County as it was listed in 1767-1768 as being in Fermanagh Township, than Cumberland County. Situated on land that belonged to the James Mitcheltree Family; his death at the hands of Indians reportedly was the beginning of the cemetery.

The cemetery was known in earlier days as the Juniata Burying Ground and is called the Lock Cemetery presumably because it is near a now abandoned Pennsylvania Canal lock. In 1808 Robert Thompson purchased the farm on which the cemetery is located from the estate of James Mitcheltree. His father, pioneer John Thompson, lies buried in the cemetery which contains seven generations of Thompsons. [1]

[1] From family history supplied by Mrs. K Thompson Ulery, 1969.

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