The private cemetery of the Wentz family, in the northern part of Worcester, is the oldest place of burial in the township. It was located on the estate of Peter Wentz and was primarily a burial ground for the early Wentz family and their retainers. Peter Wentz, the Immigrant, his wife, his children, and grandchildren to the number of thirty-six are buried in this cemetery near Worcester [Center Point, Skippackville], Pa. The farm to which the cenmetery belongs passed successively from Peter Wentz to his son, Abraham Wentz, Michael Croll, the Wancer [Warner?] family, John Fisher, and Hairy Heilman, who owned and occupied it in 1926. The Wentz family held a lease on the farm, which gave them the privilege to visit and repair the plot whenever they desired.

The cemetery, a plot about fifty feet square, is situated in the midst of a cultivated field on a declivity sloping towards the meadowbrook which flows westward to the Zacharias Creek. Formerly it was surrounded by a stone wall; it was long in a neglected condition, is seldom visited and is at some distance from any highway. Several years ago a member of the Wentz family living in Philadelphia had the tombstones reset and a cement wall built around the burial spot.

It is not known at what time the first interment was made in this cemetery, nor can it be told exactly from any memorials contained in the yard itself. The first persons buried here were probably the children and the grandchildren of the first Peter Wentz who died in infancy before 1740. From the inscription on the tombstone of Mrs. Peter Wentz it is evident that there was a burial ground here as early as 1744. Burials were made here as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. There now remain some sixteen monumental stones, of which only five or six are of marble. On a plain sandstone we have the initials "P. W. 1749" to the memory of the first Peter Wentz. Another stone of the same material bears the initials "E. L. W." and the date 1744 to the memory of Elizabeth, his wife. Mary, wife of Abraham Wentz, was the last personage deposited here. She died in 1803, aged 79.