McAninch Farm Cemetery, Jefferson County, Penn., Updated 2023

FAG’2022 Photos (online)

A "McAninch Family Cemetery" site has been created on the findagrave.com website. [Note 8]

There are many errors on that website, with the location given as "Brookville, Jefferson County";

of course, the "McAninch Farm Cemetery" cemetery has not moved, and it is still where it has

always been, on the (former) McAninch farm near Ohl in Beaver Township, Jefferson County.

There are (headstone) tombstone photographs for six McAninch graves posted online in 2022,

along with GPS coordinates posted for five of these people:

(FAG’2022-1) Almira J McAninch ("Almira J." confirmed by her tombstone photo) (GPS),

(FAG’2022-2) Elijah McAninch ("Elijah "McAnich" (sic), spelling on his tombstone) (GPS),

(FAG’2022-3) Elmira McAninch ("Elmira" on photograph of her tombstone) (no GPS location),

(FAG’2022-4) Henry Hamilton McAninch ("H. H. McAninch" on his tombstone photo) (GPS),

(FAG’2022-5) Sarah E. McAninch ("Sarah E." on tombstone photo, not "Sarah C.") (GPS), and

(FAG’2022-6) William T McAninch ("William T." confirmed by photo of his tombstone) (GPS).

Others’2023 (possible other people, analysis)

William H. McAninch and Isabel (Hopkins) McAninch

William H. McAninch (b.ca.1783; died 19 Jan. 1864, age 81) (so, William b.ca.1783, not 1771)

and his wife Isabel (Hopkins) McAninch (b.ca.1783, d.ca.1864) were married ca.1803 in

Armstrong County. William and Isabel had twelve children, including sons Elijah McAninch

(b.27 Aug. 1810, d.1 Aug. 1840) and Henry H. McAninch (b.10 June 1818, d.15 May 1875).

Both boys were born at Brady’s Bend, Armstrong (now Clarion) County (not Dauphin County).

William and Isabel are living in Beaver Township in the 1860 census, so, William and/or Isabel

could have been buried at the McAninch Family Cemetery 3 or 4 years later. Unfortunately, it is

not known where William and/or Isabel are buried, and there are no records that would confirm

or contradict possible William and/or Isabel burials on the McAninch farm. [Note 6] [Note 7]

Crowe, Jane M. (McAninch) Edmonds

Elijah McAninch (b.1810, d.1840) is buried at the McAninch Farm cemetery. However, his wife

Jane M. (Crowe) (McAninch) Edmonds (b.1813, Armstrong Co.) is not buried here. After Elijah

died, his widow Jane married (2nd) Thomas Edmonds ca.1842; Thomas died in 1884, Jane died

in 1898, and they are both buried in the Ohl Cemetery, Ohl, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.

Crowe, Mary H. "Polly" (McAninch)

Henry H. McAninch (b.10 June 1818, d.15 May 1875) is buried in the McAninch Farm Cemetery.

However, his wife Mary H. "Polly" (Crowe) McAninch (b.ca.1820, Armstrong Co.) was living in

Beaver Township in 1880, age 58, and later living in Bellevue (Allegheny County), Penn., in 1898,

according to the Commemorative Biographical Record 1898 book [CBR, Note 1]. It is not known

when or where she died, but she is probably not buried in the McAninch Farm Cemetery .

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McAninch Farm Cemetery, Beaver Township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania (2023)

McA. Family Hist. NL v.XXXI (31) n.2 / Nov. 2023 / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2023-23