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This is now the corner of Rich Valley Road and Bella Vista Drive. Only the house and two outbuildings behind it remain. They are now surrounded by a development. The barn and other buildings have been torn down.
This farm belonged to William Walker, who sold it to John Eshelman on April 8, 1836. In 1869 the property was deeded to Nancy Eshelman Gibble, eldest daughter of John and Catharine Eshelman, with the exception of a 50 square foot plot to be used as the burial ground for the Eshelman family in accordance with John Eshelmanâs will. The graveyard was known as the Gibble Farm Cemetery.
I photographed the cemetery in 2010 and documented the 18 burials on Find A Grave. At that time the stones were in fairly good shape for their age and most of the inscriptions were readable. The memorials can be found here:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg....
The cemetery was approximately 400 feet north of the Walker house. It is not visible in this picture. It was surrounded by an iron fence made by the Potts Manufacturing Company, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Joseph Eshelman's tombstone inscription was in German.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg....