The Alverton Cemetery
Circa 1800 a Mennonite Meeting House was erected at Stonersville and adjacent to the Meeting House was established a burial place incorporated in 1878 as the Mennonite Cemetery Association.  While the official corporate name has not changed the cemetery is more commonly known as the Alverton Cemetery Association.
As of 3-1-2009
Price for Cemetery Lot $ 500.00 - All lots are 4 ft x 10 ft.
Price for Opening and Closing grave is $500.00
Price for Cremation Opening and Closing $200.00
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or call Tina Horak at 724-547-2480
For a list of burials, date, and location - click here
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Pictured below is the largest monument in the cemetery - The Dillinger Obelisk.
The Dillinger Obelisk, Mennonite Cemetery, Alverton, PA.
Photograph by Sam Komlenic, © 4-16-05

SAMUEL DILLINGER, a leading man of affairs in the early development of Westmoreland county, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in East Huntingdon township, Westmoreland county, October 28, 1810. He was of German descent in both parental lines and along with his sons, an active businessman of the area.




It has been reported that it took 16 horses to pull the monument up the hill to its location