Gilpin Township - The Kidd Farm Cemetery is located off (now) Evergreen Road, also known as the Old Leechburg Road.
Go about 1 mile north of the Evergreen Cemetery turn east on Novinger Road, go about 3/4 of mile. The cemetery is on the right a few hundred feet in the trees. This cemetery is very difficult to find due to the dense forest and lack of any roads leading to it.

HISTORY OF THE KIDD FARM CEMETERY

This is one of the oldest cemeteries in Armstrong County, it started in the late 1700's, and is the final resting place of many of Armstrong Co's earliest pioneers.

The cemetery was named after a Civil War Veteran named H. Kidd, who owned the adjoining property.

It is said by some of the nearby residents, now long dead, that the cemetery contained about 100 graves. Some of the family names are Klingensmith and Riggle and their many relatives

This cemetery was abandoned in about 1888, when the Evergreen Cemetery was started a short distant to the south.
This property is now owned by the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Co., who use it as a dumping site. They bought the property from Robert J Clark in 1977. The previous owners are unknown.

There was a search of the Sober-Hill Cemetery and the Kidd Farm Cemetery on January 29, 1981 by Mrs. Raymond Ralston, Rt. 1. Box 385, Slippery Rock, PA. A copy of this is available at the Leechburg Historic Library, Leechburg, PA
In this search there were only three readable tombstones:

Sanford
Son of H&E. Klingensmith
Died April 23, 1812
Aged 8y 11D
(This would make his birth)
10 Apr 1834

Elizabeth Kuhns
Consort of
Jacob Kuhns
Died July 21
1836, aged 20y
1M 12D
(This would make her birth)
09 June 1816

DANI LAHG
GB D 2S HERZ
1788 GsT. D. 20
1789 DEC 15 1813
This is some what unreadable
I put down what I can see. on the report

Other Know Burials
Catharina Margaretta (Klingensmith) Klingensmith 1786—1826
daughter Catharina b. 1808
daughter aria Elizabeth b. 1810

Other Ancestors Thought to be Buried Here
Peter Klingensmith Jr. 1755—1818
Anna Margaretta (Spahr) Klingensmith d. before 1818
Phillip Klingensmith 1775—1729

Written by Lloyd Sober Oct 08, 2010

Note: GPS Coordinates of Latitude: 40.65472, Longitude: -79.59889 are precise and not an approximation.