Lock Berlin Community Cemetery - Lock Berlin, New York
Posted by: PTCrazy
N 43° 04.785 W 076° 56.795
18T E 341540 N 4771509
This cemetery is located behind the Lock Berlin Fellowship of Faith Church in the small community of Lock Berlin, New York.
Waymark Code: WM4NZV
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2008
Views: 5
This old cemetery is located behind what used to be the Lock Berlin United Methodist Church. After many years of low attendance at this church, it became a church badly in need of repair. However, in recent years, there was renewed interest in the old church and a new fellowship was started that has taken time to repair the church back to usable condition. It is now called the Fellowship of Faith Church. The cemetery behind the church dates back to the early 1800's with most of the stones dating before 1900. There have been a few new graves added here in recent years, according to the caretaker of the church, as interest in the church grew, so did interest in the cemetery. The caretaker of the church just happened to be there when I stopped here and was very nice. He allowed my daughter and I to go inside the church to see what it looked like and then gave us a walking tour of the cemetery to point out some of the local "heroes" that are buried here. The founder of the Village of Lock Berlin, Solomon Ford, is buried here, along with a Revolutionary War Veteran, Charles Steuerwald, which is also a zinc headstone. There are approx. 200 graves in this cemetery.
City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Not listed
Approximate number of graves: Not listed
Cemetery Status: Not listed
Cemetery Website: Not listed
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