Kühner-Schramm Family Cemetery, Catawba Springs N.C. (1762–1943)
The Keener-Shrum Family Cemetery in Catawba Springs (Lincoln County) is believed to be the grave site of two early German Palatine immigrants to Amerika who settled in the Catawba River Valley — Casper Kühner (1680–1762) and Anna Catherine Koener Schramm (1730-1770). These two Pennsylvania Dutch migrants are probably buried in graves marked with plain fieldstones, like many of the interments in this cemetery. The smaller stones are believed to mark the graves of house slaves and possibly field laborers as well.
Casper was my sechster Urgroßvater (sixth great grandfather), and his son, Abraham, is also believed to be buried in the family cemetery. Abraham’s son, John E. Keener Sr, is one of several veterans of the American Revolution buried in the “old Keener burying ground.” This German Lutheran family also established a “Union” church on the property that was open to all denominations and is where several local Baptist churches got started. It was called the “Do as you please” church by locals for many years, but today it is the home of Union Baptist Church. The “Union” name remains as a result of a stipulation in the deed by William Henry Keener and Daniel Shrum when they sold the property in 1894.
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