Plymouth, Italy
Shawnee Cemetery in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, located on 13.5 acres on a hillside overlooking Wyoming Valley, was established by the Shawnee Cemetery Association, and chartered on September 5, 1873. Interments began in the fall of 1873, many of which were initially reinterments from other older cemete
ries. At an initial meeting of the directors of the association, chaired by Draper Smith, deeds for the cemetery grounds were paid for and accepted from John B. Smith, and Ira and Oliver Davenport, and a committee was appointed to install a fence around the grounds. In 1994, following decades of neglect, Plymouth's General Federation of Women's Clubs, led by Janice Williams, undertook the task of restoring the once beautiful cemetery. They constructed a new shed to house maintenance equipment, painted iron fences, repaired headstones, removed trees, repaired roads, and installed new street signs. In 2008, the Shawnee Cemetery Preservation Association took over the work of maintaining the grounds. Led for fifteen years by president Tom Jesso Sr. (1951-2024), the group has installed benches, made roadway repairs, removed brush, and repaired headstones. The Association's efforts to reclaim several...
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