Rumbarger Cemetery

Thank you, Zack, Dom, Alex, Alexa and Jackie for helping us keep the cemetery maintained this summer. It looks great! These students worked all summer in 90+ degree heat and humidity, mowing, trimming and weed eating.

The back part of the cemetery all mowed and trimmed.

One of the 11 urns we planted this year at Rumbarger.

Some Yucca bushes blooming towards the back end of Rumbarger.

Thank you Dollymama! We have a dedicated board that really wants to make Main St look good when you're entering DuBois. We have had support from the City of DuBois, local businesses and several people in the community too. We have 11 flower urns planted full of flowers through out the eight acres, the front sign is planted, the Soldiers Circle got new plants and our new flower bed by the electrical box is full of flowers too. The 11 flower urns have been empty for over 50 years, so it's nice to see color and flowers again. Some of the urns are over 100 years old, but they are still holding up. If you get a chance to go for a walk, check out how good the cemetery is looking. We are so appreciative of the way the people in our area are getting involved and helping us out.

Childs Mausoleum Restoration Project April, 2012

Childs Mausoleum Restoration Project April, 2012

Childs Mausoleum Restoration Project April, 2012

Childs Mausoleum Restoration Project April, 2012

Childs Mausoleum Restoration Project April, 2012 From left, volunteering after work, Scott Farrell, Ron Miknis, Ed Wells and Greg Vida apply a coat of cement to a crumbling mausoleum at Rumbarger Cemetery in DuBois Thursday, April 12, 2012 as part of an ongoing effort to restore the historic site. Zack Farrell also helped out with the project. Zack will use the time he volunteered towards his community service for school. Thank you all for helping out. We really appreciate your time and efforts. (Courier Express, PhoCC)

What a sad story and how awful for the families. I heard there are several people from the mine explosion buried in Rumbarger Cemetery. I wonder if they have any relatives around that would care for their graves?

Aerial view of Rumbarger Cemetery.

http://www.geocaching.com Check out this link to the Clearfield County Recreation and Tourism Authority. They have put together a cemetery Geo-cache trail and Rumbarger is part of their trail. John Rumbarger came to this area of Clearfield County in the early 1870

Thank you for the interesting article that mentioned the Electric Park! I never even heard of the Electric Park in DuBois.

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?

Does anyone know where Electric Park was located? They talk about it in the story above.

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.

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

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.

The way the cemetery used to look when it was an overgrown jumbled mess of weeds and groundhogs.

Interesting Story! John Rumbarger came to this area of Clearfield County in the early 1870

Knarr monument

Do any of the local Knarr families know anything about the stately Knarr monument that sits atop the hill in Rumbarger?

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".

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!!