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Photo of Swinggate Entrance sent in by Al Dickgieser

Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 - Do You Know that you can search just the 600 pages of Tioga County Cemetery Records on the site by using the Cemeteries -Tioga button in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current What's New Page? If you use that partition follow these steps to search just one cemetery.  1. Choose Cemeteries - Tioga.  2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Newbury or Furman] AND a surname.  3. Choose the Find ALL Words option. Then it will find just the pages with that surname in the one cemetery you indicated.

Located about 1500 feet northeast of intersection of Route 58089 and Twp. road 643, on lands formerly owned by H.B Mattison Copied by Earl Cooper & Emma ATWELL Cooper, R.D.1, Middlebury Center, Pa. 16935 June 1972 .

See Also Swing Gate Cemetery Obituary Page

Joyce (July 2006)
Al Dickgieser here, Recently we searched for Swing Gate Cemetery, but had a hard time with the directions.  Swing Gate Cemetery is located at 881 Swing Gate Rd.  If you take Water St. out of Knoxville, PA.  And go 4.0 miles from the Knoxville Bridge you will be at Swing Gate Entrance (see attached photo).  The cemetery is located at the top of the hill on the left-hand side in a thicket of brush and trees.  The cemetery is not visible, only after you walk into the thicket. Most gravestones are lying down, from ground settlement.  Twp  #643 is Cooper Rd, which you can take from Rt. 249 to Swing Gate Rd. then turn right, the entrance is just a short ways on the left.  If you need help in finding the cemetery, you can stop at a large farmhouse just down the road on the left. The name on the mailbox is Homer Erway and he can direct you to the site. In talking with him, he said he has several people asking him about Swing Gate Cemetery each year.
Al Dickgieser
 

CHRISTIAN	Iva	1889	1914		daughter of Andrew and Dora, Stone erected by Jemison Grange No. 1497
BARGER	Sarah		May 15, 1866	80 yr. 9 mo. 20 da.
THOMPSON	James		July 7, 1865	82 yr. 2 mo. 27 da
THOMPSON	Jane		Sept.-----		wife of James
BOOM	Matthew		May 2, 1864	71 yr. 10 mo.
BOOM	Caroline		Apr. 11, 1875	77 yr. 1 mo.
CLARK	Susana G.	Mar. 23, 1837	Oct. 1, 1874		wife of Leonard Clark
COOPER	Julia	May 20, 1841	14-Jun-08		wife of Burdick Cooper
BENNETT	Ralph H.	Aug 19, 1860	Apr. 22, 1877
BENNETT	Eva	Nov. 8, 1862	Nov 16, 1877
BENNETT	Cromwell		Mar. 21, 1867	65 yr. 5 mo. 3 da.
BENNETT	Sally		May 20, 1873	81 yr. 18 da.
CORWIN	Martha		June 29, 1866	33 yr. 6 mo. 29 da.	wife of Daniel T. Corwin
WATKINS	William	Apr. 3, 1800	Jan. 20, 1888
WATKINS	Lorena M.	Feb. 25, 1823	---		wife of William Watkins
WATKINS	Maurice O.	May 7, 1865	Oct 8., 1870
WATKINS	Herbert D.		Feb. 7, 1857		son of W. and L.M.
WATKINS	Edward		Oct. 2, 1861		son of W. and L.M.
COOPER	Jason		Oct. 5, 1863	65 yr.
COOPER	Mariah CHAMPLAIN		Feb. 5, 1872	70 yr. 5 mo. 25 da.	wife of Jason Cooper
COOPER	Soloman M.	Apr. 23, 1826	1-11- ?		('Salmon' on marker)
COOPER	Thomas	May 21, 1855	Feb. 23, 1886		son of S.M. and Urania
COOPER	Winchester E.	Nov. 23, 1837	Feb. 3, 1913
COOPER	Urania J. MACK	Apr. 22, 1826	Jan. 24, 1902		wife of W.E. Cooper
COOPER	Ella A.		Oct. 6, 1862	1 yr. 7 ?	dau. of W.E. and U.J.
COOPER	Wm. M.		Mar. 15, 1858	2 mo. 14 da.	son of W.E. and U.J.
COOPER	Nathaniel				Said to be here. No Marker.
KING	Samuel P.		May 15, 1867
KING	Nellie		Mar. 26, 1875	70 yr. 8 mo. ?	wife of Samuel P. King
HUDSON	Mandana		Dec. 30, 1873	26 yr. 10 ?	wife of W.H.
COOPER	Jason				in Capt. James Taylor's Co. 30th Reg. Vermont May 4, 1813 for 1 year

Joyce Thanks for the reply.  I have attach a picture that I took at Swing Gate of My wife's Great, Great Grandfather William Watkins.  Your sites has been a great help, it saves a lot of walking.  Thanks again for all your work in making it easier to located old family members. Al Dickgieser Note from Joyce - Tombstone also includes Lorena but does not mention her own surname. Her own nameShe was born Lorena Maria Lamphere . She died December 1, 1893 in Deerfield Twp.  .