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Halyday Run / Clark Summit area - Oil City
Oil City Derrick June 20, 1872


The Old Burial Ground

For the past two days workmen on the inclined railway ( Clarks Summit area) have been engaged in disinterring the remains of a number of those who were buried on the point of the hill near the mouth of Halyday Run. At that point it is necessary to fill in considerably, and Messrs. Clark and Porteous, with due consideration for the feelings of the surviving friends as well as sanctity for the grave, proposed to remove the remains at their own expense and decently inter them in the city cemetery. Some of the headstones mark the time away back fifty or sixty years. We have taken a record of those whose remains are being taken up, with the date of deaths.
Francis Halyday, the father of James Halyday still residing in this city, died in 1811, and Sarah Halyday, the latters mother, died in 1842, aged 72 years.

    Three sisters of James Halyday were buried in the same place as follows:
  • Mrs. Cassandra Bannon, died April 3, 1846, aged 47 years
  • Mrs. Sarah Davidson, died in 1849
  • Mrs. Utetta Carle, died in 1828, aged 38 years

  • A son, James Halyday, died Aug. 20, 1851, aged 6 years
  • Columbus Halyday, a brother, died in 1814, aged 21 years
  • Alexander Carle, a brother-in-law, died in 184_? - aged 53 years.
    The remains of each of the above, so far as they can be recognized, will be taken up and transferred to the city cemetery.

Submitted by:Penny Minnick

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