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Paul Overfield Family Cemetery

Shoemakers, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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  • east of Freeman Tract Road in Middle Smithfield Township
    Shoemakers, Pennsylvania, USA

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This is one of the cemeteries surveyed in the design phase of the Tocks Island Dam project, identified as subject to submergence within the proposed Tocks Island Lake. The Pocono Record published special announcements of such endangered cemeteries and graves. This was the particular description published on 25 Sep 1972 (one of four cemeteries described in Middle Smithfield Township):

"Located along T515 between Camp Ministerium and Camp Miller. The following two names: WILLIAM OVERFIELD and PAUL OVERFIELD, were taken from headstones. There are apparently 18 other unidentified burials in the Family Plot."

This cemetery is on the land surveyed in 1755 for a warrant application by Paul Overfield, and warranted to him in 1762 after the local disruptions of the French and Indian War.

The Cemetery is today within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, east of the Freeman Tract Road that branches from the River Road southeast of the Park headquarters to parallel the Delaware River all the way into the Walpack Bend.

The two identified graves are Paul Overfield himself, who died in 1798, and a son William who predeceased him circa 1794-1797. Michelle Harrison-Kintner reported that William's stone was removed after the survey.








This is one of the cemeteries surveyed in the design phase of the Tocks Island Dam project, identified as subject to submergence within the proposed Tocks Island Lake. The Pocono Record published special announcements of such endangered cemeteries and graves. This was the particular description published on 25 Sep 1972 (one of four cemeteries described in Middle Smithfield Township):

"Located along T515 between Camp Ministerium and Camp Miller. The following two names: WILLIAM OVERFIELD and PAUL OVERFIELD, were taken from headstones. There are apparently 18 other unidentified burials in the Family Plot."

This cemetery is on the land surveyed in 1755 for a warrant application by Paul Overfield, and warranted to him in 1762 after the local disruptions of the French and Indian War.

The Cemetery is today within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, east of the Freeman Tract Road that branches from the River Road southeast of the Park headquarters to parallel the Delaware River all the way into the Walpack Bend.

The two identified graves are Paul Overfield himself, who died in 1798, and a son William who predeceased him circa 1794-1797. Michelle Harrison-Kintner reported that William's stone was removed after the survey.








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