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A historic African American cemetery in Penbrook, Dauphin County, PA |
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Lincoln Cemetery, Dauphin CountyImage Gallery - Page 1A preservation organization has been set up to look after this cemetery. The contact address is below. Contributions for the care and preservation of this cemetery may be sent to this organization: |
![]() This tombstone, the inscription on which has worn away, is of a style popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is possible that it pre-dates even the Herr Street site, having possibly been moved there in the late 1850's from the old African American burial grounds next to Meadow Lane and Fourth Street. |
![]() Escaping from slavery in North Carolina in 1863, Slaughter joined Company B of the 3rd N.C. Colored Infantry, which became the 37th U.S.C.T. infantry regiment. He moved to Harrisburg well after the war and joined the local African American G.A.R., David Stevens Post 520. He died on February 17, 1943, seven months after Barton's death. Harrisburg American Legion Post 733 is named in his honor. Calobe Jackson notes, " I just found that Ephriam Slaughter entered the USCT as Ephraim Newsome. Newsome was the surname of Ephraim's owner when he was a slave in NC. Pension records list both names. Ephraim Newsome is the name listed on USCT Memorial in Washington DC." (email 26 October 2009) |
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![]() One of these men, William T. Lee was 21 years old when he was mustered into Company H of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry regiment. Mustering in on June 6, 1863, Lee was probably one of many "overflow" enlistments which began to fill out the ranks of the 55th after the ranks of the 54th were full. Three days after Lee was mustered in, 135 more men left Harrisburg for Boston to enlist in this regiment.
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Known Burials at Lincoln Cemetery:
Surnames, unknown and A-C | Surnames D-G | Surnames H-L | Surnames M-P | Surnames Q-S | Surnames T-Z
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