KEATING SUMMIT CEMETERY
GPS Coordinates: 41°41'4.80"N, 78°10'41.29"W

Cemetery is above Reed Run road as you drive south from Keating Summit in a grove of hemlocks - very derelict.

Compiled from the records of The Potter County Historical Society
and PHGS by: Charles & Kathleen Heffner

Updated by: Dana Valley and with contributions from our users.

Photo by Barb Hyde

There are many damaged and unreadable stones in this neglected little cemetery. Also, judging from the gaps between the stones that do exist, it is likely that most of the burials in this cemetery are unmarked. There is a row of five military service markers, but they are not associated with graves.

BURLEW, Charles W. Born, died 1-11-1936. Age: 76y 3m 9d
BUTLER, Bertha. Born 1887, died 1917
BUTLER, Forrest G. Born 6-5-1899, died 5-7-1912 - Son of Claud and Ella M. Butler. (1900 Keating Census)
CANNON, Pearl. Born 4-8-1909, died 4-17-1909 - Dau. of John B. and Ethel Cannon
DAY, Mary. Spouse of E. E. Day. Born 1885, died 1908
HAYNES, Catherine [Katie]. Spouse of William S. Born 11-1851, died 1908 - (1900 Portage - Austin Census)
HAYNES, William S.. Spouse of Catherine. Born 9-1845, died 1931 - (1900 Portage - Austin Census)
HOOKS, Findley E. Born 4-24-1893, died 2-9-1978 - WW I Vet, US Navy
JONES, Ethel. Born 3-2-1895, died 8-11-1895 - Dau of Jared and Stella Jones
JONES, Jared F. Spouse of Stella. Born 9-13-1868, died 3-27-1901
KAPLE, Kathryn M. Spouse of Arthur R. KAPLE. Born 4-12-1926, died 3-08-2007. Age: 80y - Dau of Theodore F. and Gladys A. (Yentzer) Stewart. Born in Port Allegany PA, d. Erie PA (Select Specialty Hosp), Wed 10-05-1944 in Wellsville NY (he d. 8-12-2002)
KELLY, Harry W. Born 7-??-1886, died 4-9-1889. Age: 2y 9m. - Son of John and Emma M. Kelly
LEIGHTLEY, Larry M. Born 10-7-1969, died 10-7-1989 - Peacetime Vet, US Army, PFC
MCLEOD, Alex D. Born 8-10-1860, died 5-18-1905
MCLEOD, Sophia J. Born 1868, died 1953
MITCHELTREE, John Dingle. Spouse of Martha J. Clark. Born 3-9-1837, died 3-2-1918. Age: 80y 11m 21d - Born in Clinton Co. John, Becky, Martha and all 10 their children lived amicably and openly together for 32 years.
- Civil War VetProb buried in Odin with Becky. Shirley Wiggins, wswmtree@comcast.net
MITCHELTREE, Martha Jane (Clark). Spouse of John D. Born 4-1837, died Aft 6-1910 - No Marker. From Jersey Shore. (1900, 1910 Keating Census)
MITCHELTREE, Ned P. Born 6-5-1908, died 10-20-1908
MITCHELTREE, Pauline (Parker) [Polly]. Spouse of William. Born 1888, died 10-1908 - Dau of Noah Parker of Gardeau, McKean Co.
MORE, Charlotte M. Spouse of Harry M. Born, died 4-14-1907. Age: 26y 10m 21d
MORE, Leo T. Born 5-7-1900, died 8-8-1900 - Son of Harry M. and Charlotte M. More
QUICK, Samuel E. Born, died 5-8-1889. Age: 63 - Civil War Vet
RINEHULS, Rebecca G. Spouse of William H. Born 1848, died 1904
RINEHULS, William H. Spouse of Rebecca G. Born 1885, died 5-6-1923 - Killed by a train at Niagra Falls.
SACKETT, Lennie. Born, died 3-22-1888. Age: 8y 10m 25d - Son of A.J. and M. Sackett
SUMMERSON, Myrtle A (Vanvolkinburg). Born 6-1891, died 1912 - Dau of Amsey and Anna (Matthews) VanVolkinburg.
VANVOLKINBURG, Olee I.rwin. Born 11-20-1897, died 11-1918 - Son of Amsey and Anna (Matthews) VanVolkenburg
VANVOLKINBURG, Sanford. Spouse of Amy Jenkins/ Mary Ann Johnson. Born 1817, died 6-26-1894
** See link below for VanVolkinburg Family
WEAVER, Alice Snowie. Born 1885, died 1888
WEAVER, Bird Lansing. Born 173, died 1888
WEAVER, Della Maud. Born 1874, died 1888
WEAVER, Rosell. Born 1854, died 1888


** VanVolkinburg Family (External link)

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