Meyer Family Cemetery in Shirksville, Pennsylvania

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Coordinates: 40.43275, -76.41089
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This early cemetery is located on the former Jacob Meyer Homestead. It stands on top of a hill in a field on private property to the east of the Shirksville Mennonite Meetinghouse. A wire fence surrounds the cemetery.

Jacob Meyer, elder of the Little Swatara German Baptist congregation, warranted this 141-acre farm on November 15, 1749. It was passed on to his son and grandson who are buried in the family cemetery on the farm. Jacob and his wife, Magdalena Frantz, are presumed to also have been buried here although no stones for them are extant. A large number of descendants of this Meyer family, many of them still members of the Church of the Brethren, the Brethren in Christ or the Mennonite Church, live in Pennsylvania, Ontario, Virginia, Ohio and states further west.

The Meyer German Baptist Meetinghouse still stands on the eastern boundary of what used to be Jacob and Magdalena Meyer's farm. The name of this congregation has been changed to "Mount Zion Road Church of the Brethren."