Please find below a transcript [retyped as found printed in book] from the History of Adams County [1886] concerning the Bender's Church Grave Yard, Butler Twp.
Submitted by Donna HELLER ZINN
Among the old places of interment within the county, that known as Bender's Grave yard dates its beginning back in the last century. The first burial in Bender's Cemetery was that of a man who, in crossing a fence, fell on a scythe which he was carrying to John Galbrath's. The second was that of a man who fell from a scaffold and broke his neck while building the church in 1781. The names of the aged, old residents of Butler Twp. who rest here, as far as head-stones give names and dates of death, are as follows: Casper SAURIER - 1790 Henry LOWER - 1867 Henrich SCHMEISER - 1795 Solomon PETER - 1880 Nicholas DIETRICH - 1844 Jacob REX - 1863 John GEASE - 1881 Jacob EYSTER - 1839 Adam GEAGY - 1861 Maria Madina SCHLEBACH - 1785 Maria GEAGY - 1861 Geo. HUBER - 1829 Jacob WEIDNER - 1871 Catherine BENDER - 1846 Lazamer WEIDNER - 1851 W. BURKHART - 1811 William CASHMAN - 1860 Wm. MEALS - 1833 Catherine BEITLERMAN - 1866 Eliza RAENHARG - 1830 Eliza HOFFMAN - 1804 Geo. HARTZELL - 1824 Michael MINICH - 1847 Conrad PLANK - 1854 Catherine MINICH - 1843 Jacob MEALS - 1852 Philip LONG - 1853 Simon BECKER - 1856 John Henry BENDER - 1843 Jacob PENSYL - 1810 Catherine BENDER - 1844 Wm. GARDER - 1856 Elizabeth RISE - 1826 Ester, his wife - 1846 Elizabeth MOWRAR - 1833 Geo. GEISE - 1833 John MAUREY - 1834 John SCHLEBACH - 1795 John ROHER - 1807 Jonas BLANCH - 1799 Daniel REX - 1835 Abram GUISE - 1849 Michael DIETRICH - 1834 Daniel SLAYBAUGH - 1881 Peter SLAYBAUGH - 1831 Geo. FIDLER - 1860 H. B. SCHROEDER - 1856 John DEITRICH - 1813 Robert HUSTON - 1857 Geo. GILBERT - 1813 Jacob WIRTH - 1805 Henry PETER - 1846 Margaret WIRIHN - 1805 Daniel PREIFORHIM - 1825 Geo. EYSTER - 1836 John MAURER - 1821 Henry KOSER - 1858 Jacob REX - 1800 John CARSON - 1848 Eliza REX - 1812 John DULL - 1854 Elizabeth GUIDER - 1813 Capt. John BARDER - 1860 Ulrich PETERS - 1842 Susanna DUTTEROW - 1813 Barbara SLAYBAUGH - 1842 Magdalena MENGES - 1862 John Jacob SCHRIVER - 1852 Joseph BAUGHMAN - 1826 Conrad SCHRIVER - 1855 Adam MAURER - 1792 Geo. HUBER - 1735 Jacob WEAVER - 1850 Anna Maria YELLS - 1843 Jesse HOUCK - 1880 John W. DULL - 1873 Geo. J. HARTZELL - 1853 H. CLISABETH - 1810 Margaret RICH - 1833 John QUICKEL - 1839 John MEALS - 1852 Jacob THOMAS - 1822 Adam GARDER - 1864 John DOTTERY - 1836 Wm. WERT - 1882 John Jacob EIHOLTZ - 1839 Henry WITMOR - 1875 Joseph DULL - 1852 Maria E. wife of John DOTTARER - 1862 Jacob BOYER - 1848 Henry EIGHINGER - 1858 Elizabeth MEALS - 1826 John McDONNELL - 1844 Jacob LUTSHAW - 1833