The old burial ground, a place of common reception for the dead in this neighborhood, is situated on the Southern limit of the borough of Saltsburg, on the banks of the Conemaugh River. When this spot was chosen, which we suppose was to be about 1800, it would have proven a convenient and not unpleasant resting-place for the dead. In the course of time, the surveys for the Pennsylvania canal traversed the bank of the river and the final location of this public improvement, penetrated the sacred spot, resulting in the exhumation of some of the bodies and rendering the place no longer untenable for the use to which it had been devoted. As in all old burial grounds, the living simply chose a spot in which to inter their dead, fencing it in to keep the cattle from desecrating it, there being little regard paid to uniformity, symmetry, or beautification.

Two graves of all who were interred here in the early days, have been preserved with any indication of care, and they are surrounded by a small enclosure most aptly described in the following lines:

" A winding wall of mossy stone,
frost-flung and broken lines,
a lonesome acre thinly grown
with grass and wandering vines".

The information above was taken from the Saltsburg Press news paper dated October 6, 1875. There are only two graves that the information was recorded. Over the years, development of this ground has caused the remaining gravestones to be lost. It is possible that the stones could be found in the town of Saltsburg.

In 2019, a 92 year old man was interviewed and he said he remembered the old burial ground as a young boy. He stated that the graves had a cast iron fence around them. Now there is a water treatment plant at the location of the burial ground and no sign of any markers.

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Transcription of Newspaper Article that includes a list of burials:

Removing the Old Graveyard

Thursday Aug 13, 1896
Indiana Democrat

Following is the proceedings of the meeting held Friday evening by the proper authorities of the two churches in regard to the moving of the graves from the old graveyard. Last week we gave an account of what improvements were to be made and we have reason to believe that the project will be carried out, and that the grounds will be made beautiful.

At the suggestion of the Borough Council the Boards of Trustees of the United Presbyterian and Presbyterian churches met jointly and passed a resolution requesting persons who have deceased relations and friends buried in the U.P. and Presbyterian church yards to remove them to some of the cemeteries or other burial grounds. The dilapidated and neglected condition of the graves and the grounds is anything but creditable to the town or the friends of those who remains lie in these churchyards. Should the friends in these church yards neglect or refuse to remove them, an application will be made to have them removed by due course of law.
G.W. Simpson
Pres. U.P Board Trustees

W.A. At. Clair, Presbyterian Board Trustees.

Below is a list of names of persons buried in these church yards so far as they can be ascertained.

Presbyterian Church Yard

Nancy J. McElhoes
William L. Fenton
Daniel Repine and wife
J.T. Fenton
John Johnston
William Sebring
Henry Shyrock
Jesse J. Thompson
Amelia Shyrock
Jesse Griffith
__________Shyrock
Pamelia Dougherty
__________Shyrock
John Dougherty
Mary McLaughlin
Robert O.Patton
James McLaughlin
James W. Dunham
William Henry
Woodward Clark
John C. George
John Omudson
James C.Lucas
William Crawford and wife
Lafayette Young
Ann Eliza Young
Herbert Hill
Anna M. Johnston
Sarah Hill
James McKeenan
Phillip Rice and wife
Thomas T. Snyder
James Moorhead
Fergus Moorhead
Joseph Kelly
John Johnston, esq.
James Kelly
Robert Johnston
Robert W. Allison
3 Lewis children
Jane Johnston
Willie Mahan
Elizabeth Allison
James Johnston and wife
Sarah B. Allison
Sarah L. Loughry
Stacy B. Shyrock and wife
Wilson Long
Leroy Work
Eliza Marlin
Beckie Work
Cyrus Clark
Anna J. Arthur
Margaret Ewing
Robert Fleming
______Ewing
Abraham Moore
________Stuchell
Abel Findley
________Stuchell
Thomas Findley
Robert Coulter
Nathan Lockhart
Mary Coulter
Samuel Hill
Nelson L. McClaren
William H. Newell
Nancy J. Boreland
_________Wilson
Alice S. Richardson
_________Wilson
George Trimble
Two children
Nancy McClenahan
Fergus Moorhead
Hugh R. Gaston
John Ross and wife
Elias Simpson
James McMullen
Catherine Oniel
G.P Reed and daughter
Issac Oaiel
Christopher Allshouse
Sara E. Ewing
Martin Carnahan
Thomas B. McMullen and wife
John Stuchell
Mrs. H.J. Thomas and son
Jane R. Stuchell
James Taylor
William J. Stuchell
Abram Stuchell

U.P. Churchyard

Issac M______
Milinda C. Wiggins
John E. Myers
Eliza Wiggins
Elizabeth Myers
James B.A. Criley
Robert Myers
Samuel Stewart
Martha Mahan
Margaret Mahan
_______Stewart
John Mahan and wife
Hanna Morrison
Nancy Mahan
Samuel Katon
Patrick Mahan
Claudius McKee
Thomas Dickson
William Trimble
James McKee
Thomas L. Wiggins
R.Wiggins
Margaret Trimble
Mary Smith
Mary Ann Hamill
Margaret Calhoun
Samuel Hammill
David McLeesh
George Trimble
Margaret Hart
Anne Trimble
Nancy H. McGee
Mary Thompson, Infant
Fulton
James Thompson
Frank Young
Mary Kier
Sally Young
Two children of Simeon Truby
Alice LaRue Thompson
Willie Young
Caroline T. Young
Rebecca Thompson
Jacob K. McAllister
Milton Lowry
Robert Stephens
Mary Trimble
Lucy Jane Trimble
R.N.B.
W.T. McGee
Bicca Adams
William Kelly
Catherine Findley
Archibald Kelly
Mary Adams
Susanna Walker
H. Thompson
John J. McKee
Jane Pattison
Cassandra McKee
Jane Pattison
Joseph Wilson
Viniza Trimble
Matthew Wilson
Jane Trimble
Hannah Fiar
Elizabeth Trimble
Eliza Adair
Elizabeth Trimble
M.H.
Frank Lichteberger
Charles Lichteberger
Nancy O. Hicks
Isabella Lytle
Two children of P. Beatty
Mary D. Lytle
28 unmarked graves