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 STAUFFER  MENNONITE  CEMETERY

The Stauffer Mennonite Cemetery sits on a hillside above Bachmanville Road in Derry Township, just north of the Conewago township line. The church is located in Conewago Township while the cemetery is in Derry Township. The cemetery was established 1857 by three men who purchased one acre of ground so people would have a burial ground and is documented on the map of Derry Township published in the Dauphin County Historical Atlas of 1875, p. 69.

In 1999 volunteers from the Derry Township Historical Society recorded the cemetery and compared their report to the listing provided by Pastor J. F. Zeager produced in 1984 by Bruce Hartman and Thomas Lehman. The final listing records 424 burials and includes the partial listing that has been available on the Internet for a number of years.

The cemetery was officially established about 1857 although the earliest death is much earlier, in 1799.

We would be happy to conduct a cemetery search or do more extensive research for you.  The cemetery search would include all Derry Township cemeteries plus others that are closely associated with our township.  Most of the names in our cemetery database are not available elsewhere on the Internet.  The cost is $5 per surname and you may supply up to three alternate spellings (total of four).  If you find your ancestors in the list below and require additional information, please contact us . 

For more thorough research, please request a copy of our research policy.   In addition, our obituary list and our name index of “lost and found” ancestors may be of interest to you.  Please check our main library page for these and other links, as we continue to update our information on line.

Names carved on the stones in this cemetery include: