History and Genealogy of Ransom Township and Newton Township

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<center>Ransom

Valley Cemetery

An alphabetical listing and location of

tombstones

of the people buried in Ransom Valley Cemetery which is located next to

the Ransom Valley Church, Ransom Township, Lackawanna County,

Pennsylvania. 

The land donated by John and Jacob Dorsheimer in 1846.

There is a book about the History of Ransom

It includes copies of

actual records from the church and cemetery from 1911 to 1967.

also has write-ups on John and Jacob Dorsheimer and the church and

cemetery's

restoration.

It lists the burial date that some of the people who

were buried.

This is not my book, but it was written by Mildred

Hopkins Pretzer, another

descendant of Jacob Dorsheimer.

Some of my information found in these pages was

used in this book.

The cost of this book is $12.50.  For more

information, please <a href="mailto:lacoe@microserve.net">email me</a>.

This cemetery is becoming overgrown with

breirs  and poisin ivy (in the Turner lot section).

The cemetery did recently receive new wood chipping (or something

similar to this)

on the entrance walkway and into the church.   The best

looking sections are Taft

through Geary/Gardner lots (around the church). Since 1999, there has

been some vandalism.

Around 2000, there were some stones like John Rader's that were tipped

over.

There are lights at night at the cemetery to deter vandalism.

In order to preserve the tombstones of this

cemetery, I took digital pictures of

all the tombstones in May 2006.  Since

there is about 500 pictures taken,

I am not able to post them online.  If

there are an tombstones that

you would like to see, please <a

href="mailto:lacoe@microserve.net">email me</a>.  Some stones

which were

unable to be read in 1999, were able to be identified in 2006 with

the use of a digital camera.

<a href="ransomcemlist.html">List

of people buried in the cemetery</a>

<a href="ransomcemkey.html">Key

to the cemetery maps</a>

<a href="ransomcema.html">Cemetery

part A

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<a href="ransomcemb.html">Cemetery

part B</a>

<a href="ransomcemc.html">Cemetery

part C</a>

<a href="ransomcemd.html">Cemetery

part D</a>

<a href="ransomceme.html">Cemetery

part E</a>

<a href="http://www.geocities.com/ransomvalleycem2/">Pictures

of the cemetery

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<a href="rcemsources.html">Others

sources for some of the people buried in the cemetery</a>

<a href="ransomcemnotes.html">More

information for some of the people buried in the cemetery</a>

<a href="ransomchurchcem.html">Index

of </a><a href="ransomchurchcem.html"> History

of Ransom

Valley Church and Cemetery</a>

Compiled by   <a

href="mailto:lacoe@microserve.net">Susan LaCoe</a>

great, great, great granddaughter of Philip and

Susan Dorsheimer Barrier

and

great, great, great, great granddaughter of Jacob

and Barbara Brong Dorsheimer

June 1999

updated March 2008

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