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Rumbarger Cemetery Site For Spring Walk
April 18, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Paul Sprague of the Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society will lead the DuBois Area Historical Society’s 4th Annual Spring Walk at the historic burial ground on Saturday, May 5, beginning at 10 a.m. The program is free and open to the public.
The walk has become a popular, well-attended activity for the DuBois Area Historical Society, which is celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2012. The program is free and open to the public.
The tour will leave from the upper parking lot of the DuBois Regional Medical Center, closest to Rumbarger Cemetery. Sprague will highlight the efforts underway to preserve and improve Rumbarger Cemetery and spotlight some of the more famous people who are buried at the cemetery.
Rumbarger Cemetery on South Street is the oldest cemetery in DuBois, being developed as a private enterprise by John Rumbarger in the late 1800s to serve the early settlers of the area. With no provisions for perpetual care the individual owners attended to each burial plot.
Upon Rumbarger’s death in 1889, the cemetery was sold to the DuBois Cemetery Company, which was incorporated in 1890. The cemetery’s land-locked location also meant fewer burial plots available for use leading to the establishment of Morningside Cemetery. Over the ensuing years attempts were made to maintain and improve Rumbarger Cemetery by public-spirited citizens, most prominently Wallace Lindsay.
The DuBois Cemetery Company is still a legal organization, but Clearfield County Judge Joseph Ammerman recently awarded the ownership of the cemetery to the newly formed Rumbarger Cemetery Preservation Society. The Society’s efforts have resulted in a revitalization of the historic burial ground.
The DuBois Area Historical Society’s 30th Anniversary year continues with: June 1 – E. D. Reitz Museum open during First Friday, 5-8 p.m.; July 6 – E. D. Reitz Museum open during First Friday, 5-8 p.m.; August 3 – E. D. Reitz Museum open during First Friday, 5-8 p.m.; September 20 – 30th Annual Dinner, American Legion, DuBois, guest speaker Russ Hoenig, Rockton Airplane Crash, 6 p.m.; October 13 – 5th Annual Spirit of DuBois Lantern Walk TBA.