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Also called Pine - Glen Cemetery Stevens Township Pag |
The old Rocky Glenn Cemetery, if it exists was located on the edge of the woods on the former Arden and Mary Learn farm in Stevens Township, Bradford County, PA. It was on the first dirt road to the left, by the Locust Inn in Stevensville, Pennsylvania on Route 706 which is right near the Saint Matthews Episcopal Church. The Inn has burned since my interview with Mary and has been replaced by what is now known as Gilles Restaurant. The Locust Inn served as the parsonage for the Saint Matthews Episcopal Church before it became an Inn. Their is wild arbutus growing where the schoolhouse (Methodist) connection church used to be located. On the edge of the woods the ground hollows. Mary felt that was where the cemetery was located. She was a firm believer that it was there. William Avis is alleged to have been buried there, a Civil War soldier who was listed when the cemetery was catalogued by the WPA about 1940. He can be found on the WPA map. There is no evidence of a cemetery according to Mary Learn left except the hollowed ground and the arbutus. Mary went on Arbutus doesn't grow just everywhere., there had to be a reason for it being there. The schoolhouse was removed to across the road from the Gilles Restaurant where the small old white building still rests. There is nothing left of Rocky/Pine Glenn but the memories, all those huge rocks and deep gorges. I have a few news articles in the older newspapers but nothing mentions the cemetery or church.
Carol HOOSE Brotzman
Beaver Meadows Church Historian