Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Thank you to all the businesses and people that made the first Wreaths Across America in DuBois such a success! We placed over 100 wreaths on veterans graves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Wreaths Across America ceremony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Wreaths Across America ceremony. Scouts helping place the wreaths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 The Rumbarger grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Mel Amrhein, playing taps at Franklin Rumbarger's grave at the Wreaths Across America ceremony. We had a great weather day for the ceremony. December 10, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Thank you to Penn State University DuBois Campus for donating several cement benches to the cemetery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 DuBois was called Rumbarger before it was renamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 The "Before" picture of the Tonks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Penn State DuBois campus students helping out their community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 From on top of Rumbarger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Yes, we even have an official hidden Geocache right in the middle of DuBois. The Offical Clearfield County Geotrail Geocache located in Rumbarger Cemetery, DuBois, PA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 The beautiful sign that graces our front entrance, donated by Paul Sekula of Sekula Signs. Thank you Paul for the wonderful gift to our community! Your generosity is admirable, we appreciate all your support and what you have done for us and the community!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Since the society recently gained ownership through the Clearfield County Courts, Sekula Signs came up and updated our sign. Now our sign reads at the bottom "owned and maintained by the Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 15, 2012 Author Share Posted February 15, 2012 Do any of the local Knarr families know anything about the stately Knarr monument that sits atop the hill in Rumbarger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rok Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Kudos to the RCPS! What a wonderful job so far on this historic piece of hallowed ground! I hope that the fruits of your labor and good works continue to gain momentum. I am looking forward to providing service to your group this year! I am wondering if all the naysayers and critics have done their share? Can anyone answer that for me? I am thinking of one in particular that I would love to see there with their sleeves rolled up working instead of making comments and asking about getting involved but never putting their efforts where their mouths are! You know who you are!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Knarr monument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Interesting Story! John Rumbarger came to this area of Clearfield County in the early 1870 beadbabe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 The way the cemetery used to look when it was an overgrown jumbled mess of weeds and groundhogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 The area behind the cannons is the same area where the above picture with the jumbled mess of weeds and vines was taken. As you can see in this "after" photo, we are making progress, it's slow but we are making progress. Everyone on our board works and we are all volunteers, so we mow, weed eat and trim in the evenings and weekends when we can. Volunteers to help out are needed. Anyone can mow, trim or weed eat in any area of the 8 acres at anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Interesting story from 1924, 88 years ago. People now are always saying how people do crazy things now in the news and it didn't happen with the older generations. It sounds like people were just as violent back then! DuBois Morning Courier, March 5, 1924 ATTORNEY VICTIM OF ATTACK MADE YESTERDAY A. M. H. A. Moore, prominent lawyer and Secretary of the DuBois Cemetery Company, was brutally assaulted yesterday morning in Rumbarger Cemetery by Special Officer Russell Love for the City of DuBois, and placed under arrest on a charge of assault and battery himself, and forced to spend an hour in the city lock-up, later being released for a hearing before Alderman D. D. Neff. It is alleged that previous to being assaulted by Officer Love, Mr. Moore did not address a word to the officer and had no controversy with him and that before he realized what was being done, Mr. Moore was struck by the officer beadbabe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Can anyone tell me what it is about this screen where all the text and everything goes waaaay over and off the charts. It is really hard to read moving back and forth. Thanks so much for the interesting material. And the wonderful job of bringing back such a hallowed area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich00 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 May I suggest going to the view tab on your web browser, and using the "zoom" feature, reduce the size of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 A story from 1894 DuBois Weekly Courier, Thursday, August 2, 1894 Thursday evening during the band concert at Electric park a number of young people entered Rumbarger cemetery and during the playing of the pieces by the band danced on the platform that is used for speaking on Decoration day. The parties who are guilty of such behavior ought to be ashamed to look any honest person in the face. If they have no departed friends or relatives sleeping in the cemetery there are hundreds of people in town who have and respect for the living as well as the dead should deter any person from such unbecoming conduct. If self-respect will not keep people from using the platform in the cemetery for a dancing place the cemetery association ought to take a hand and have the parties arrested and punished. A fine for tresspass, perhaps, would not be half as pleasant for them as dancing over the graves of the departed members of the families of their neighbors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Does anyone know where Electric Park was located? They talk about it in the story above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumbarger Cemetery Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 August 25, 1939 From the Weekly Profile. This was a weekly newspaper published in DuBois from 1939 through the early 1940's. Look at the old time car coming up Main St. The sidewalks were still brick and you can see the DuBois Brewery stack in the picture. Does anyone know what that tall building to the left of the Brewery stack was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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