Dauphin Co., Penna.
Londonderry Township
NISSLEY Farm Cemetery
formerly Russ Garver Farm
Now Nissleys
Located on Russ Garver's farm
restored by Jake Nissley in 1958

Submitted by Charles E. Fies

Data from Wm. H. Egle's Note and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s,
Fourth Series Volume 1, Pg. 120: Christian Garver, died in August, 1813,
left estate to: brother Michael's children Michael and Christian, sister Betty,
sister Barbara, married to John Nisley; and daughter Mrs. Kauffman
Mennonist Society of Londonderry, Henry Landis, bishop.

=First Name=	=Last Name=	===Date of Birth===	====Death====	====Age====
Wife Riften	Mumma	b.Nov 10 1809	d. May 20 1836	26Yr4Mo10Days
Martin	Rifley	b. Oct 15 1782	d. Jan 21 1841	58Yr3Mo6Days
Elizabeth	Riffley	b. Aug 29 1781	d. Mar 17 1861	79Y8Mo18Days
Almirat	Horning	b. Sep 12 11830	d. Oct 27 1841	11Yr1Mo15Days
Elizabeth	Nissli	b. July 1760	d. July 30 1822	62 Years
Jacob	Nissli	b. Jun 24 1754	d. Jan 29 1796	41Yr7Mo5Days
Elizabeth	Sherbern	b.	d. Dec 7 1830	60 Years
Catharina	Ridley	b.	d. Sep 5 1832	10 Months 6 Days
Anthony	Emerick	b. Dec 16 1819	d. Oct 21 1839	19Yr10Mo5Days
Elizabeth	Collingwood	b.	d. Jul 31 1827	16 Years
Eprata	Collingwood	b.	d. Jul 31 1828	.
Adaline	Heastan	b.	d. May	.
Catherine	Heastan	b.	d. Sep 15 1851	1 Month 24 Days
Maria	Katz	b.	d. Jul 5 1830	6 Years 5 Months
Lucetta	Horning	b.	d. Feb 27 1833	24Y4Mo14Days
John	Hotz	b. May 12 1786	d. Dec 2 1856	70Yr6Mo21Days
Mary Ann	Meckley	b.	d. Mar 29 1862	6Yr10Mo20Days
Suzanna	Hotz	b. Dec 6 1786	d. Sep 29 1857	70Yr9Mo23Days
David	Nissley	b. May 3 1826	d. Nov 14 1852	216Yr6Mo11Days
Anthony	Emerick	b. Feb 5 1785	d. Aug 21 1839	54Yr6Mo6Days
Samuel	Hummel	b. Feb 20 1848	d. Aug 13 1849	1Yr5Mo24Days
Moses	Bower	b. Nov 12 1807	d. Oct 21 1834	26Yr11Mo12Days
Mary Louisa	Unknown	b.	d. Sep 15 1838	1Yr3Mo1Day
Maria	Rifley	b. Aug 7 1807	d. Sep 7 1841	34 Years 1 Month
Susan	Heastan	b.	d. July 1828	3 Months
Sarah Ann	Hiestand	b.	d. Aug 27, 1834	30 Days
Heinrich	Rifley	b. Aug 8 1805	d. Apr 25, 1841	35Yrs8Mo17Days
Alexander	Swords	b. Jul 15 1823	d. Apr 24, 1847	23Yr9Mo9Days
Leah	Ettinger	b.	d. Apr 20 1860	About 18 Years
Solomon	Nisley	b. Apr 17 1853	d. Jan 25, 1856	.
Martin	Nissley	b. Aug 6 1845	d. Apr 26 1851	5Yr8Mo20Days
J. C., Father	Nissley	b.	d. Apr 2 1895	80Yr8Mo12Days
Melysa	Look	b. Jan 23 1851	d. May 14 1852	1Yr3Mo21Days
Samuel	Nissley	b. Dec 12 1856	d. Jul 12 1858	1Yr8Mo12Days
Barbara	Nissley	b. Jan 18 1818	d. Oct 13 1889	71Y8Mo25Days
James	Reed	b.	d. Nov 6 1829	3 Months 12 Days
Maria	K or Haltz	b.	d. Jul 5 1830	6 Years 50 Months
Jacob	Nissley	b. Jun 7 1855	d. Feb 7 1856	8 Months
Mary	Nissley	b. Nov 13 1847	d. Mar 7 1857	2 Years (?)
Moses	Campreu/bell	b. May 20 1799	d. Sep 24 1844	.

Tough-to-read Nissley, Nissley Farm, Londonderry Township
Note: Riften, Rifley, Riffley is German script engraving for Nissley

A Nissley Mansion Cemetery
Lower Swatara Township
Longview Drive
nearby the Swartz Farm

Egle's Notes & Queries of Penna
1700s-1800s 4th series Vol II Pg 347
read by E. W. S. Parthemore on Sep. 12, 1895
before the Dauphin County Historical Society

January 30, 1775 Proprieteries of Pennsylvania sold "Greenbanks" to
Abraham Regual; on February 13, 1779 sold to Jacob Richer;
November 26, 1795, sold to John & Molly Richer;
April 11, 1804, sold to Martin Nissley, Sr. & Elizabeth, from Lancaster;
June 13, 1825 sold to son Samuel Nissley, who in 1846 built the Mansion;
after his death to Martin 'Big Mart' Nissley;
then to son-in-law Adam Shope (owner of record in 1896)


To the rear of the Nissley Mansion (farmhouse), on a gentle elevation
enclosed by a neat paling fence, whitewashed very nicely, is the
"God's Acre" where rest the bodies of several families who have lived
here for a century or more. The following inscriptions (E.W.S. Parthemore):

===Last Name===	===First Name===	====Born====	====Died====
Heucher	John	Aug 22 1743	Jan 12 1803
Heucher	Barbara	Jan 14 1746	July 4 1808
Heucher	Catharine	Sep 26 1780	Feb 26 1842
Heucher	Jacob	Jan 6 1779	Sep 14 1835
Heucher	Maria w/o Jacob	Apr 13 1792	May 21 1825
Heucher	Johannes	Jan 17 1823	Sep 17 1836
Heicher	Christian	Nov 26 1771	Sep 5 1803
Heicher	Henrich	Oct 7 1773	Feb 18 1837
Heicher	Catharine	May 6 1782	Mar 6 1836
Heicher	Elizabeth d/o John	Jul 28 1782	Apr 24 1866
Miller	Andrew	b. 1793	Jun 11 1862
Miller	Anna	Oct 18 1789	Jun 25 1862
Mumma	Elizabeth Nisley	Feb 6 1828	Apr 14 1854
Nisle	Elizabeth	Mar 6 1765	Dec 15 1827
Nisle	Martin	Dec 29 1763	Oct 8 1825
Niessley	John	Dec 31 1788	May 6 1832
Niessley	Elizabeth w/o John	Oct 22 1793	Apr 17 1846
Nisley	Samuel	Feb 1 1799	Jan 17 1859
Nisley	Anna w/o Samuel	Sep 29 1798	Nov 2 1834
Nisley	Martin 'Big Mart'	Sep 11 1825	Mar 3 1892

Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s
William Henry Egle was the State Librarian of Pennsylvania for twelve
years. In a "Report of the State Librarian for the Year 1901," shortly
after his death, his "Notes and Queries" was said to be "beyond all
others the most important publication relating to the Scotch-Irish in
America." And in the preface to the early reprint series it was noted
that "no contributions to any newspaper in the country have been so
appreciated or more often referred to."

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