Lost Resting Places: Sheridan Cemetery

Sheridan School & Cemetery

View from Morgans Road

     In Huntingdon County, on the eastern side of Raystown Lake, there is a small cemetery that is overgrown with weeds and disheveled. Alongside the cemetery is a brick building that is also in need of some repairs. With a lot of research I could not find out much about this building or cemetery. The graveyard is known as Sheridan Cemetery but the building is called a school. I found it odd that a school would be next to a cemetery and believe it must have been a church at sometime and made into a school or vise versa.

 

            The cemetery has about twenty head stones dating from the mid 1800’s to the early 1900’s. Most of the stones are overgrown with plants and flowers that had been left there long ago. The cemetery and building sit alongside Morgans Road north of the intersection of Chilcote’s and Morgan’s Road. Please be respectful of the site if you wish to visit.