In 1905, the Bloomsburg Morning Press reported that the “eye- sore” old Lutheran Cemetery at the corner of 1st and Center Street in town was to be moved to the Rosemont cemetery. This required all interred to be carefully exhumed, identified and relocated. Some of the very early graves lacked even the most basic identification and the joint congregations had to work together to keep the remains as intact as possible. Inter- estingly, this parcel, which today is firmly located in the town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, was a shared church of both the Lutheran and the Reformed worshippers. The property was deeded in Northumberland County, and according the Morning Press: “was recorded long before Columbia County ceased to be a part of the county of Northumberland.”
In 1907, the same paper would print a disturbing discovery near the former Bloomsburg High School.
“A skeleton of a body and part of the coffin in which it was interred have been exposed on the northern bank of the old Lutheran cemetery facing the Bloomsburg High School. With typhoid fever existing to an alarming extent in Scranton and other nearby places this condition of affairs is one that de-
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