Chestnut Hill Cemetery

LOCATION	319 W. Winding Hill Road Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA

Founded in 1862 by an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Chestnut Hill Cemetery is one of the Mechanicsburg area’s most historic landmarks. On June 28, 1863, when General Albert Jenkins marched his 700 or so cavalrymen through Mechanicsburg and demanded that the town surrender, the Cemetery was mistaken by Jenkins’ scouts for an entrenched military position.

From the conclusion of the Civil War until WW II the region’s annual Memorial Day remembrance were held at the “historic Chestnut Hill Cemetery.” A 1939 reference to the annual event indicates that the cemetery contains the remains of “121 Union Army veterans, two Spanish-American War volunteers and one veteran of the war with Mexico” (The Harrisburg Telegraph Newspaper ).

Many Kauffman’s are buried here. They include:

• Walter Lee Kauffman
• Edith Belle Kauffman
• Andrew Isaac Kauffman

• Percival Coover Kauffman 1857 – 1914
• Katharine Barton 1866-1937

• Levi Kauffman 1833 – 1882
• Ann Elizabeth Coover 1833 – 1911

• Isaac B Kauffman 1861 -1905
• Lieut I B Kauffman 1828 – 1862
• Eveil A Kauffman 1837 – 1905

There are more to be added.