BALTIC A tombstone dedication was held for John Burger, a Revolutionary War soldier, June 3 in the Fisher Cemetery, located on Route 93 just north of Baltic.
BALTIC A tombstone dedication was held for John Burger, a Revolutionary War soldier, June 3 in the Fisher Cemetery, located on Route 93 just north of Baltic.
Burger was born in 1752 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He died on June 27, 1836, in Holmes County. He served as a private in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolutionary war. He married and had six sons and two daughters.
After an article appeared in the newspaper, contact was made with Burger’s great, great, great, great, great granddaughter Nora Volz of Saginaw, Michigan and Jim Burger, a great, great, great, great grandson.
The two descendants attended the 30-minute dedication and participated by unveiling and placing a wreath on the grave. The small cemetery has about 80 marked graves.
A Civil War reenactor also participated, along with the Sugarcreek American Legion honor guard, and members of the Daughters of the American Revolution chapters.
Volz was related through John and Catherine Lederman Burger’s son Daniel and Jim Burger was related through another son, David.
Volz has visited the cemetery in the past and was very grateful to have a nice new stone erected in honor of her grandfather. She was very appreciative.
Jim Burger said his neighbor once asked him if he had a relative named John Burger.
“I wasn’t sure. It did not ring a bell ... but I got out the Burger books and sure enough it was there,” Burger said.
“I looked for that grave for a year. He was listed as being buried in Clark Cemetery but I could not find it,” he said. "I think it’s great.”
Jim Burger said the Fisher Cemetery was once part of the Fisher farm. At one time there was a German Brethren Church that sat close to the cemetery.
BARB LIMBACHER