Heerman's Family Burying Gound, Scranton, PA

Heerman's Family Burying Gound, Scranton, PA
Located at 2412 North Main Ave., less than a city block from where N. Main intersects Parker St. All the stones are of nine members of the Henry Heermans family, all of whom died in the middle and late 19th Century. Henry was a prominent merchant in Providence. The HEERMANS family were early settlers of the valley. Henry had first settled in Pittston with his father. He later moved to Salem Corners (now Hamlin) where he was postmaster, constable and tavern owner. He finally settled in Razorville (now the Providence section of Scranton) around 1829. His daughter Catherine, by his first wife married W(illiam). W(illander). WINTON, another prominent early settler, and the father of A. H. Winton, the subject of a book by the same name. The first burial was his wife Fandima Nicholson Heermans, who died in 1831 at the age of 40. The last burial was of Henry’s second wife, Sarah, in 1868. It was originally on the Heermans Family farm, and was part of the estate of Henry Herrmans. The stones of Henry and Sarah Ann are rather large obelisks and quite easy to read. Sarah’s is the tallest with Henry’s to the right. In the rear are smaller stones laid flat. All of them either have no writing on them or they are placed with writing down. One very clearly has “R.A.” engraved on it, directly behind the stone of Ruth Ann.

Heerman's Family Burying Ground
This is a well-maintained family burying ground on what was then the Heeramn's Farm. Names and dates were
taken from the stones and from newspaper articles
Surname	Forename	Birth Date	Death Date	Notes
HEERMANS	Caroline		1847	Aged 18 yrs., 5 mos. & 15 days
				Daughter of Henry and Sarah Ann HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Fandina NICHOLSON	27 August 1791	30 October 1831	Aged 40 years
				Wife of Henry HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Harriet		1 September 1860	Aged 22 yrs., 5 mos. & 28 days
				Daughter of Henry and Sarah HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Henry	1791	27 October1843	Aged 52 yrs & 4 mos.

HEERMANS	Holden A.		25 October 1830	Son of Artemus and Mahalia Violeeta TRIPP
				HEERMANS
HEERMANS	Infant daughter		July 1836	Daughter of Henry and Sarah HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Infant son		25 April 1819	Infant son of Henry and Fandina HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Olive	1 April 1833	26 May 1843	Aged 10 yrs., 1 mo. & 25 days
				Daughter of Henry and Sarah Ann HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Ruth Ann	3 January 1846	8 October 1844	Aged 1 yr., 2 mos. & 26 days
				Daughter of Henry and Sarah Ann HEERMANS

Surname	Forename	Birth Date	Death Date	Notes
HEERMANS	Sarah Ann	7 February 1809	24 August 1868	Aged 59 yrs., 6 mos. & 17 days
				Wife of Henry HEERMANS

HEERMANS	Sarah Ann	17 November 1842	2 May 1844	Aged 1 yr., 5 mos. & 15 days
				Infant daughter of Henry and Sarah Ann HEERMANS

WINTON	Gertrude	24 April 1849	8 August 1850	AE 1 yr., 3 mos. & 15 days
				Daughter of William and Catherine HEERMANS
				WINTON

WINTON	James C		September 1866	Infant son of A. M. WINTON

Thank you to Thomas Price for providing this information, May 2021

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