Shaw Cemetery
In 1832 Moses Dennis Shaw (1811-1890) married Julia A. Miller and moved
his growing family from Livingston County, NY to Summerhill Township,
Crawford County, PA. He built his home on South Townline Road, had a
few more children (11 in all), and donated land for an Evangelical
Church (Shaw Church) and a cemetery (Shaw Cemetery) on Dicksonburg Road
next to land belonging to Minor Walton. A number of individuals (most
related to each other through blood or marriage) are buried there; a
number of them in unmarked graves.
The earliest known burial was Thomas Shaw, son of M. D. and Julia Miller
Shaw who died 4 April 1862 at age 24. Thomas, who served with the 145
PA Vol. Infantry during the rebellion, died of diseases contracted during service.
Currently, neighbors in the area are putting together a cemetery
association and are planning on selling burial plots. Membership in the
association will be $20.00 a family per year to help with the upkeep of the cemetery.
Because of the large number of umarked graves, the information listed
has been taken from family records, obits, and existing gravestones.