Weld Cemetery

Beccaria Township

Clearfeld County

Submitted by Justin Kirk Houser

Inventoried by Justin Kirk Houser and JoAnn K. Marshall, August 16, 2001

Directions: Take Chestnut Road from Blain City to Utahville for 3 miles; turn left on Weld Cemetery road, past an A-frame house. The road is not marked. Travel for ¼ mile on this road. The cemetery is on your left; there is a parking area on the left before the cemetery. Last house before cemetery either way is an A-frame on the right.

Rows read South to North, beginning on the East side of cemetery.

 

Section/

Row. Stone

 

1.1.1 blank footstone (loose)

1.1.2 Schryver, Clarissa, w/o Dr. A. T., brick in ground for ftst 11-06-1822 12-10-1860

1.1 Four spaces

1.1.3 Bratton, George W, *FLT; ftst Father on right 10-22-1822 01-14-1887

1.1.3 Bratton, Sarah, w/o George W; ftst Mother on left 03-18-1825 10-06-1903

1.1.4 Bratton, Emma K, d/o G W & S; ftst EKB (loose), a 2.8.27 12-20-1863

1.1.4 Bratton, Mollie, d/o Jane, ftst MB (loose), a 0.3.26 09-13-1867

1.1.4 Stonecutter: Sauser, Tyrone

1.1 Two spaces

1.1.5 Bratton, Willie

1.1.6 Bratton, Willie (at foot of grave) 1875 1877

1.1.7 Bratton, John W. (at foot of grave) *FLT 1849 1921

1.1.8 Bratton monument

1.1.9 G. W. B.

1.2.1 Crabtree, William 1880 1931

1.2.1 Crabtree, Irena R 1871 1964

1.2.2 Weld, Emma J, w/o Hamilton; ftst Emma Weld 1846 1926

1.2.3 Weld, Virginia, ftst large concrete slab 05-08-1922 11-02-1933

1.2.4 Weld, Minnie E, Mother 1889 1955

1.2 Four spaces

1.2.5 Nevling, Edgar M 1908 1968

1.2.6 Nevling, L Z, Father (at foot of grave) 1858 1928

1.2.7 Nevling monument

[there is evidence of a grave here]

1.2.8 Nevling, Nellie C 1867 1950

1.2.9 Nevling, Clara M 1903 1937

1.2.10 Carns, Mary Margaret Nevling 1900 1970

1.2 Six spaces

1.2.11 Weld, John, a 82.11.18 08-11-1863

1.2.12 Weld, Agness, w/o J, a 68.0.16 03-21-1855

1.2.12 "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord"

1.2.13 Weld, Gilbert S, s/o J & M E, a 3.4 or 1.17 06-02-1855

1.2.14 Weld, John 12-05-1814 01-24-1861

1.2.14 "The hand of affliction falls heavily, now I am left with my children to mourn, the friend of my

1.2.14 youth lies silent and low, in this cold grave yard alone." Footstone J. W. (loose); headstone

1.2.14 broken off base.

1.2.15 Glasgow, Mary E, w/o John; formerly w/o John Weld, a 61.11.2 11-10-1888

1.2.15 Footstone M. E. G.

1.2.16 Unmarked footstone

1.2.17 Unmarked footstone

1.2.18 Weld, Theodore, s/o John & M E, a 17.10.7, ftst T W 04-03-1870

1.2.19 Native fieldstone, flat in the ground

1.2.20 Loose footstone

1.2.21 G S

1.2 Four spaces

1.2.22 Weld, Jennie M, Stone Funeral Home Marker 1855 1897

1.2.23 Weld, John M, Stone Funeral Home Marker 1850 1893

1.3.1 ____, Jefferson

1.3.2 ____, Rebecca E

1.3 [#1-2 match]

1.3.3 Marble about 18" x 8", no inscription

1.3 One space

1.3.4 Native fieldstone

1.3.5 Native fieldstone

1.3 Four spaces

1.3.6 Weld, Charles S, Woodmen of the World Memorial 07-28-1891 06-03-1918

1.3 Two spaces

1.3.7 Geary [at foot of grave]

1.3.8 Father [at foot of grave]

1.3.9 Weld, Aaron 10-11-1829 01-14-1873

1.3.9 Weld, Ellen R, Wife 07-29-1830 03-04-1915

1.3.9 Weld, Geary, Their Son 07-09-1869 10-03-1895

1.3.10 Mother [at foot of grave]

1.3 Two spaces

1.3.11 Weld, Emma, d/o H & E, a 3.5.0, ftst blank 11-28-1860

1.3.12 Weld, Cassius, s/o H & E, a 4.9.21, ftst C W 08-20-1864

1.3 [#11-12 on same base]

1.3.13 Weld, Emma, w/o Hamilton, a 45.11.22 04-14-1868

1.3.13 "Farewell husband and children all, from you a mother Christ doth call, Weep not for me, it is in

1.3.13 vain, to call me to your sight again."

1.3.14 Weld, Hamilton, a 53.9.8, illegible verse, ftst blank, 02-01-1819 11-09-1872

1.3.14 [stone broken off base]

1.3.15 Johnson, P T, a 36.5.6 05-29-1870

1.3.16 Johnson, Thomas, a 77.7.14, ftst T J 06-29-1864

1.3.17 ____, Howard Ashley 1910 1911

1.3.18 Weld, Ashley 03-17-1854 07-22-1945

1.3 [large myrtle patch with daylillies at end of row. Couldn’t find stones in it when probed with a stick.]

1.4 [Row starts ½ way down behind Emma Weld who d 1860]

1.4.1 Harkins, Dora, d/o Wm & Mary E, a (5.6.17)? (10-04-1876)?

1.4.2 Harkins, Harry, s/o Harry & M C 05-15-1900 08-20-1901

1.4.3 H H

1.5.1 Weld, L Dow

1.5.1 Weld, Rebecca Ann, Wife

1.5.2 Weld, May, d/o J D & J E, a 13.1.16, ftst M W 09-10-1881

1.5.3 _____, Jeffie

1.5.4 _____, Clara

1.5 [#3-4 match]

1.5 Six spaces

1.5.5 Wolfe, Emma Weld, "Loved in life, in death Remembered" 1858 1929

1.5.6 Unmarked fieldstone

1.5.7 Davis, Lenora Weld 1873 1930

1.5.8 Weld, William 1847 1928

1.5.9 Weld, Lionel W, Our Dear Father, a 62.1.6, ftst L W W 03-12-1888

1.5.9 "Dearest father thou hast left us, Here thy loss we deeply feel, But tis God that hath bereft us, He

1.5.9 can all our sorrows heal."

1.5 Two spaces

1.5.10 Harkins, William, Sergt Co D, 149th Inf *GAR 1839 1927

1.5.11 Harkins, Mary E 1843 1918

1.5.12 Footstone, no markings

1.6.1 Bratton, Edyth J 1880 1957

1.6.2 Straw, Amanda, stone at foot of grave 1857 1929

1.6.3 Straw, Evi J, Rest In Peace 1855 1912

1.6.4 Straw, Evi J, stone at foot of grave 1855 1912

1.6 Fifteen spaces

1.6.5 Dietrick, William A 1873 1925

1.6.6 Dietrich, Maude 1878 1938

1.6.7 Dietrich, Charles E 1906 1994

1.7.1 Weld, Jno L, Co E, 43 US VI, *SP, *FOE

1.7.2 Te___y [hand scratched]

1.8.1 fieldstone (flat), with two fieldtones as footstones, leaning on each other)

1.8 Five spaces

1.8.2 Weld, Randy W 07-14-1954 12-16-1974

1.8.2 "May his beautiful smile light up heaven forever." Also, a Plass FHM

1.8 Twelve spaces

1.8.3 Children of George and Catharine Roberts:

1.8.3 Roberts, Agnes L, a 11.3.10, ftst A L R 04-25-1881

1.8.3 "One less to love on earth, one more in heaven."

1.8.3 Roberts, Urban, a 6.1.3, ftst U R 04-17-1881

1.8.3 "He was a little angel from heaven sent; we thought he was given but was only lent."

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