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Fort Barr Cemetery

New Derry, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Get directions Atlantic 3 Road
New Derry, Pennsylvania 15671 United States

Coordinates: 40.36335, -79.32861
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This cemetery, the oldest in the Derry Settlement, is surrounded by a white wooden fence with a gate in the middle of the south side. Alexander and Robert Barr were killed by the Indians in a skirmish retreating from Fort Wallace to Barr's Fort which were five miles apart. Barr's Fort was a mile north of New Derry. Pomeroy's Blockhouse stood a mile north of Ft. Barr, and Wilson's Blockhouse one mile west of New Derry. The location of the burials may have been arbitrarily established by members of the SAR in 1957. William Gilson married in 1764 Elizabeth Craighead who died in 1784. Her place of burial is not known. The log house used as a fort built by Robert and James Barr, in 1769 if not earlier, has been taken down by Edward Lamolinara and relocated. A stone addition has been built at the west side of the log house. Warren and Margaret (Peg) Moberg McFeaters took Fred W. Stewart notes which recorded the burials, to this site on November 13, 1987.

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