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Ashland Cemetery
Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

GPS: 40.198299, -77.177498

York Rd
Carlisle, PA 17013

Published: November 3, 2019
Total records: 61

Ashland Cemetery is privately owned. It had been owned by Ewing Brothers Funeral Home, but put up for sale in 2017.

Cemetery History

Ashland Cemetery was established by Col. William Penrose out of a need for burial space in Carlisle. It was consecrated before a crowd of local residents on Oct. 8, 1865. At the time, the Old Graveyard on East South Street was filled to capacity and three other cemeteries were almost full.

The cemetery was managed by a group of trustees, among them was Alexander Black Ewing who started the Ewing Brothers Funeral Home in 1853. Still in operation, Ewing is one of the oldest family-owned undertaking businesses in the country.

When it opened, bodies from nearby cemeteries were transferred to Ashland.

Ashland Cemetery stayed in the Penrose family until 1952 when Penrose’s two remaining daughters sold the cemetery to Seymour Ewing and William Ewing, twin brothers and the great-grandsons of Alexander Black Ewing. The Ewing Brothers Funeral Home continued to operate the cemetery.

In 2017, Steven A. Ewing, who had become the sole owner of the cemetery, along with being the manager at Ewing Brothers Funeral Home, put it up for sale.

U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, Solider's Lot

In March of 1866, the federal government purchased part of the north side of Ashland Cemetery for a military graveyard. Some 500 Union soldiers of the Civil War who had been stationed at Carlisle Barracks, one of the oldest military posts in the United States, were originally buried at a post cemetery in Maryland. By 1871 the War Department transferred these remains to the newly purchased section in Ashland.

The bodies of 500 Union soldiers of the Civil War were removed from a cemetery in Maryland and reinterred at Ashland. A bronze plaque on a stone over the trenchlike grave lists 35 names of soldiers with the notation at the bottom “the others are known but to God.”

In 1934, the federal government erected a headstone with the inscription "500 Unknown U.S. Soldiers." However, subsequent research identified the remains of 35 soldiers interred in the soldiers' lot. In July 1960 the federal government replaced the monument with a new one that read, "500 U.S. Soldiers of the Civil War Are Here Interred. [List of the 35 Names] The Others Are Known But to God."

In addition to the mass grave, there are 23 individual graves of soldiers who died at Carlisle Barracks, 19 known and four unknown.

The records below were acquired from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on November 3, 2019...

??, ??, US ARMY, 465 Unknown Soliders, Section D, Row 22, Site 1, CIVIL WAR
??, ??, Unknown Solider, Section D, Row 22, Site 10
??, ??, Unknown Soldier, Section D, Row 22, Site 3
??, ??, Unknown Solider, Section D, Row 22, Site 4
??, ??, Unknown Solider, Section D, Row 22, Site 7
BACIC, Andi, d. 03/10/1919, Section D, Row 22, Site 14
BARNEY, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
BEIRNE, John P, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
BENSON, John W, d. 02/18/1939, Section D, Row 22, Site 15
BERGIN, James X, PVT, US ARMY, b. 10/08/1918, d. 06/24/1943, Section D, Row 22, Site 20, WORLD WAR II
BERGMANN, Herman H, CPL, US ARMY, d. 03/22/1867, Section D, Row 22, Site 11
BIGLOW, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
BRILL, Joseph, SEAMAN, US NAVY, d. 05/28/1893, Section D, Row 22, Site 2
BROWN, William H, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
CART, Jacob, SGT, US ARMY, b. 01/01/1843, d. 01/01/1882, Section D, Row 22, Site 24
CONWAY, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
DAILEY, Albert, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
DAVID, Charles, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
DRISKELL, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
EARLENBOUGH, George, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
ERNEST, John, US ARMY, d. 08/26/1864, Section D, Row 22, Site 12, CIVIL WAR
FELLMAN, Frederick, d. 12/03/1874, Section D, Row 22, Site 13
FOSTER, Marmaduke, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
GLASS, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
HATFIELD, Archibald, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
HILPERT, Joseph, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
KANE, Joseph C, b. 09/21/1893, d. 03/03/1945, Section D, Row 22, Site 22
KNEAFSEY, Michael, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
KUBLE, Henry, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
LEWIS, Albert, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
LEWIS, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
MCNICKLE, Robert, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
MICKEY, Jacob, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
MIEHE, Mary Jane, d. 11/25/1921, Section D, Row 22, Site 5, Daughter of Unknown Veteran
MILLER, John, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
NATHAN, Julien, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
NELSON, Adolf, d. 03/04/1923, Section D, Row 22, Site 9
NEWCOMB, Reginald W, SGT, US ARMY, b. 06/07/1917, d. 09/21/1941, Section D, Row 22, Site 18, WORLD WAR II
NOONAN, Jeremiah, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
O'BRIEN, Edward, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
O'DELL, Patrick, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
PENN, Elizah C, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
PFYFFER, Gustav, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
PLATT, Levi, US ARMY, d. 02/23/1891, Section D, Row 22, Site 1, INDIAN WARS
RATTAN, Robert N, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
RAYER, Matthew, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SAGLE, John H, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SEABOLE, Charles, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SIMA, Henry C, T/4, US ARMY, b. 04/19/1911, d. 06/24/1943, Section D, Row 22, Site 21, WORLD WAR II
SMITH, Daniel J, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SMITH, Robert, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SOLOMAN, Francis, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SOPER, John T, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
SPEAR, Jake Frank, b. 04/12/1899, d. 11/28/1946, Section D, Row 22, Site 23
SPOTTSWOOD, Charles H, CPL, US ARMY, Section D, Row 22, Site 6
STATES, Raymond C, SGT, US ARMY, b. 10/06/1915, d. 09/21/1941, Section D, Row 22, Site 19, WORLD WAR II
STOTT, John, b. 12/27/1891, d. 04/23/1901, Section D, Row 22, Site 8, Son of Unknown Veteran
THOMAS, Henry, d. 07/01/1940, Section D, Row 22, Site 17
WALLACE, William, Section D, Row 22, Site 1
WILSON, Edward A, d. 04/14/1934, Section D, Row 22, Site 16