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Silkman, Hitchcock   Located In Section 7 M On Tour Map. . . See Section 7

Silkman

Tombstone Art . . . Urn:  Greek symbol of mourning; death.

William Silkman

     William Silkman was born in 1834 in Westchester County, NY and moved to Scranton at an early age with his family.   After graduating from Wyoming Seminary in 1854, he took a position with the Pennsylvania Coal Company starting in the weighing department before moving up to become paymaster at Hawley.

     In 1863, he returned to Scranton to become a member of the hardware firm of Connell and Silkman on Penn Avenue.  He was later named vice president of the Scranton Savings Bank and Trust Company.    

Hitchcock

Hitchcock

Elisha Hitchcock

     Elisha Hitchcock was born in 1778 at Claremont, NH.

     He came to the Lackawanna Valley in 1809 at age 31 and built a gristmill.  A noted early settler of Slocum Hollow, he was married to Ruth Slocum, daughter of Ebenezer, for whom the area currently known as Scranton was named.

     Many early settlers built small dams along the Roaring Brook to supply water power to the mill wheels, where grain was ground for local farmers.  As a skilled mill wright, it was Elisha's job to repair the wheels.

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Dunmore Cemetery
Cemetery Association Of Dunmore

400 Church Street, P.O. Box 15
Dunmore, PA 18512

Phone: (570) 343-8536 | Fax: (570) 343-3799
Email:  dunmorecemetery@verizon.net