Cemetery: Washington Presbyterian Church once sat there
Other: surname on most stones is Sedman, Coates
Sign: Yes
Street: In Pennsylvaina State Forest Land
City: Elmsport, Pa ( Near Lewisburg Prison)
Township:
County: Lycoming county
State: Pennsylvania
Nation: USA
Zip:
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: they're located right off state forest road there
are three of them
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: trees are uprooting stones and stuff
Property: Public
Access: Open
Enclosure: Wall-Broken
Gate: None
Established: 1790
Gravestones: 50 in one maybe a total of 300 in all three
Oldest: earliest i can recall seeing is a man that was in the
war of 1812
Newest: 1982 i think
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: Unsure
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Unsure
Association: Unsure
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Availability:
Landscaping: Yes
Paths: No
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: Yes
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: No
Slate: Unsure
Others: Unsure
Wood: No
Materials: Unsure
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: Yes
Plants: Yes
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Yes
Urns: No
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery vandalized
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: Yes
Pollution: Unknown
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1: Gravestones-Overturned
VA2: Gravestones-Broken
VA3: Gravestones-Stolen
VA4: Graffiti
VA5:
Overgrowth:
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2: Graves-Disturbing
Overgrowth3: Gravestones-Disturbing
Overgrowth4: Gravestones-Damaging
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2:
Owner: Cemetery
Use: Recreational
Bordering: Woods
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: you are the first i've contacted. I didn't know what
to do about them.


Surnames:

Coates, Sedman


Other_Information:

I really don't know much about the cemetery. I've only been there a few times. There's three sites in the vicinity. one is not really in bad shape as far as i could tell. The other two are horrible.
Stones are proped up by sticks. most stones are eroded to the point you can't read them.. Some stones are laying on top of a stone fence around the one cemetery. I wish i could give better directions to them.. They are located on state forest land which is why i was horrified to see them in the condition that they are in. the one cemetery does have marker saying that it used to be the site of the Washington Presbyterian Church dating before 1790. There are a few soldiers fro the civil war there and also i noted two from the war of 1812. Even the flags placed at the graves were in horrible condition. In one of the graveyards there's a huge grave that has a plaque on it saying that a bullet that killed the one solider ( JOhn Sedman Sechler) is buried there also. We do have vidoe footage of two of the graveyards the other one seemed as though it was in pretty good condition though we didn't venture into it. There is another what looks like a foundation of another building at the second graveyard. I have no idea if anyone is taking care of the graveyards or not.

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Name: Jenny Rupert
Email: j_rupert@cub.kcnet.org
Date: 5-5-03