The Herald, Sharon, PA Published Friday, May 25, 2001

SALEM TOWNSHIP

Cemetery celebrates 200th

By Jenn Heinold
Herald Staff Writer

A Memorial Day service at 2 p.m. Sunday will celebrate the 200th anniversary Stevenson Cemetery on Methodist Road in Salem Township.

The service will include guest speaker 2nd Lt. George Lenahan, originally from Youngstown, who now works at the 910th Airlift Wing at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station.

Carol Smith, secretary of the Stevenson Cemetery Association and coordinator for the annual Memorial Day service, said there will also be a military fly-over by an F-117 jet stealth fighter.

"I just couldn't believe it when I found out that we had a fly-over," Mrs. Smith said.

Immediately following the fly-over, the VFW Greenville Post 3374 firing squad will fire a salute.

Gwen Lininger, Greenville, representing the Daughters of the American Revolution, will give a history of Stevenson Cemetery and the Sons of the American Revolution will lay a wreath honoring Robert Morgan Roberts, a Revolutionary War soldier and the first known burial in Stevenson Cemetery.

The national anthem will be sung by 11-year-old Alexa Magnotto of Hermitage.

"I began planning our program two years ago," Mrs. Smith said. "Since this year is our 200th anniversary, my goal is for the attendance to be 200."

The first 200 visitors will receive flags, compliments of state Sen. Robert D. "Bob" Robbins, Salem Township, R-50th District, and Tim Loomis, of Loomco Inc., Transfer.

At the end of the service, everyone will sing "God Bless America," and hold up their flags, Mrs. Smith said.

"We're so fortunate to live in this country," she added.



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