We Salute Our Veterans – American Revolutionary War

Mount Olivet Cemetery is rich in history. Would you believe that 1400+ men and women who served our country are buried here?

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission published a booklet, Information Leaflet #5, stating that the American Revolutionary War ‘was an armed demonstration to protest the treatment being accorded by the British government.’  According to this leaflet, the duration of this war was 1775-1783, and Pennsylvania had men who rose to defend their country’s freedom.

Mount Olivet Cemetery is the final resting place for eight known veterans from the American Revolutionary War.

  • Col. Richard McAllister

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    Shown above, the blue and red wool uniform coat is one example of military dress in the Pennsylvania State Museum’s collection, and which is attributed to Henry Felty of York County. Felty appears in the muster rolls of the 8th Battalion, 1st Company of the York County Militia in 1778 and is listed in the 7th Battalion, 2nd Company in 1779. (http://statemuseumpa.org/washingtons-army-buttons)
  • Henry Felty
  • Jacob Eichelberger, Sr.
  • Captain Casper Reineker
  • Henry DeWald
  • Christopher Slagle
  • Col. Henry Slagle
  • Johan Heinrich Welsch

Ninety years ago the Colonel Richard McCalister Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was established. McCalister and his family were buried in Emanuel Church Cemetery in Hanover, and later reinterred to Mount Olivet Cemetery.

These facts and more are yet to be discovered at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Come on out to help us celebrate our veterans on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 2:oo PM at the Garden of Honor at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 725 Baltimore Street, Hanover, PA.

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Discoverer of legacies.

My journey with the Daughters of the American Revolution started with this tombstone of Ida May Sherman. My research has gone beyond my ancestors to the discovery of the historic mysteries that lie within cemeteies.

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