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Tindall Cemetery Reveals Forgotten Graves Of ManyVIEW CEMETERY-IN-THE-1 compares notes on long-deee / with Ernest K. Tindall.By DON BODNAR News Staff Writer“Bird was here.”That's a kind of funny inscription, maybe, chUced on a wood fence slat.Scratched on a tombstone, it's far, far from that.That’s what has been etched as • vandal’s addition to one man’s epitaph on a grave masker in an ignored, dismal, in-the-vood cemetery near Sand Bank Rd. at the southwest comer cl Shenamgo Twp.\ Few Remember It* It’s Just one form of vandalism In a cemetery that rests on a mound, protected from the swamp around it. A cemetery remembered by few,I It takes a safari to reach it.| A handful of mdn, one day last , week, drove to the Sand Bank i Rd. and parked. Three were i great-great-grandsons of the oldest man buried in the plot, William Tindall, bom 1745, age 93, died 1838.\ The group walked over rocks, sliding down from a limestone quarry, and pushed through the woods.I Tree-Covered MoundI The myrtle and tree-covered mound was ahead. Some trees and brush came from graves. One marker fdl or was pushed against a tree which just grew around it. A grouse took off. Paths of hunters zig-zagged among the tombstones and brush.The troupe expected aSCT/Jhat. They knew the “odd Tindall Cemetery” hadn’t been taken care of for years. Even for those descendants who would like to hack trees and weeds, cr spray water once in a while, there’s no road or path to get to the place.I Close scrutiny of faded epitaphs revealed names of great - great grandsons of William Tindall: L. J. Tindall. Pulaski RD 1; G. C. McCairt, 226 Vine St.; and Ernest K. Tindall, RD 7. i Little SuccessT They have been trying to get someone to improve the graveyard and have met with little success. More recent effort on their part is being made in fear of , having dirt and rocks slide down t from any stripping operation.» The side of the cemetery fac-j lag Sand Bank Rd. now has a ; rock-dirt slide aimed at it. About two years ago, slides from a coal-stone operation even blocked off the road to traffic.The fear among descendants is that the entire graveyard will be covered when and if stripping takes place on all sides.Bought by FirmJohn Tanner, Shenango Twp. supervisor, said the land all around the mound was bought by a stone firm about two years ago. He believes the cemetery wa s chartered in Beaver County be-. fore Lawrence County was incorporated in 1849 from parts of Beaver and Mercer counties.Assemblyman Dominick E. Ci-offi, who admitted he failed to get someone in Harrisburg interested in the cemetery a year or so ago, said he would take the matter there within two weeks. He plans to be in the Capitol on other• government business.He plans to use details furnished by the Tindall descendants — in-—New Castle News Photo ID—N. R. Casillo, with camera, members of the Tindall familychiding one that three army veterans were buried there. Only one vet’s grave was noticeable: Sgt. W. A. Shuler, Co. F, 137th Pennsylvania Infantry, Civil War. L. J. Tindall believes two other vets, one of the Revolutionary War add another of the Civil War, also are buried in the plot.Details Are Sketchy Of those remains in the cemetery, the most is known about William Tindall — although even reports on him are sketchy.As far as his three great -grandsons can determine:Tindafl came to this area in about 1796. He might have received a 400 - acre federal land grant. He erected a log cabin near! where the cemetery now is and traded with Indians.As legend has it, Tindall one day heard a turkey gobbling, put on his moccasins, grabbed a flintlock rifle, and sneaked through the woods.Burled on Spot As he got closer, he stopped and listened. Then, an Indian stuck his head up and then it went down. The next time up, Tindall shot him. Then he buried him on the spot.True or not, that’s been carried down through nine generations of Tindalls. Tindall reportedly traveled to Pittsburgh, the closest town, to get salt to trade with the Indians.He leaves many descendants scattered around New Castle and even through the west.Familiar Names Other markers show names also familiar in this area: Robert A. Aiken, died Dec. 21, 1892: Samuel Baldwin, died 1888; and Nicholas! Neusvondcr, died 1874.On the condition of the grave yard, one of Tindall's descendants said, I guess I’m just as much to blame as anycn-e else.” The toal number of graves is difficult to determine because of brush, dirt and possible theft of markers.SHOULDER FRACTUREDKevin'Scheffler, 15, of 1910 Delaware Ave., fell yesterday at 8:45 p. m. at the George Washington Junior High School playground, injuring his left shoulder. He was treated at Jameson Memorial Hospital for a fractured shoulder and released.Richard Hopper, 3Ms, of Piatts-burg, N. Y., was visiting with has grandfather at Mt. Jackson RD 7, when he was bitten by a dog. He was treated for a small laceration of the lip and small abrasion of the right jaw at Jameson Hospital and released.SAVEMORE ATRAY'SFURNITUREnrcrmiNT
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New Castle, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Aug 01, 1962
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