Private Farm Cemeteries

Situated on the south side of Smithville Road, about a half mile east of Rte. 272 and about 1500 feet easterly of the meetinghouse site. The church was discontinued in 1904. The church building was relocated and the property sold.

In 1968 the farm where the cemetery is located was owned by Andrew Shauback. At the time of the forming of the church the land was owned by Bishop Henry Bowman who founded the Bowman Reformed Mennonite Meetinhouse.

There are no known records for the church. The transcriptions of the known stones are as follows:

• (Bishop) Henry Bowman Oct. 6, 1795- Aug. 4, 1863
• Elizabeth (Weaver) wife of Henry Bowman Sep. 9, 1820 in the twenty sixth year of age (wife)(m. May 18, 1819)
• Susanna (Weaver) second wife of Henry Bowman Jan. 6, 1796-Jan. 13, 1832
• Mary (Barr) third wife of Henry Bowman Aug. 16, 1850 in her 57th year(dau. Jacob Barr & Mary Barr)(wid. Jacob Breneman)
• Henry Bowman Feb. 8, 1763-Sep. 21, 1841, aged 78(War of 1812 veteran)
• Esther (Herr) wife of Henry Bowman May 24, 1766-Dec. 16, 1846, aged 80 (dau. Christian Herr & Maria Bowman)
• Elizabeth Bowman wife of George Rathfon Sep. 16, 1810-May 16, 1849, aged 38(dau.)(George Rathfon Feb. 2, 1817-Jan. 27, 1896, hus)
• Anna (Bowman), daughter of Henry(Bishop) and Susanna Bowman Jan. 16, 1827-Jan 19, 1856
• Susanna (Frantz), wife of Henry Bowman, Jr. 1834- Nov. 1, 1855 "The eternal Judge of all the earth, Is just in all his ways, Alike in those which give us birth, And those which end our days."
• Abraham Hoover aged 78 years 9 months and 3 days (1785-1864)
• Barbara Huber
• Anna Huber
• Daniel Huber
• Anna Huber
• Daniel Huber
• Mary Huber (died 1768)
• Susanna Huber died July 16, 1874 aged 85 years 1 month 16 days
• 14 uninscribed
• Issac Herr Dec. 10, 1746, Jan 1, 1819 (son of Henry Herr)
• Johannes Thomas Dec 28, 1739 Died 1801 62 years old less 11 days
• Daniel Herr died Oct. 15, 1828, aged 53 years 9 months and 11 days
• John Huber
• D M 1782
• I H (Issac Herr 1749?)