Thank you! It is in Westmoreland, PA and I would post some websites but I can't copy and paste anything because I use my cellphone versus a computer etc...
To confirm it wasn't renamed I did a quick search for "Is Poke Run part of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania?" The specific location is given as 40° 29' 25" North, 79° 35' 49" West.
The Poke Run Presbyterian Church where the family are buried was written about last year for "..working to install new headstones for (American) Revolutionary War". Adding details so someone who can copy and paste has some material to search in order to help confirm.
One thing I can not say is that it is a Township and even though I wrote "town" it is consistently referred to as an "area of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania". The closest thing I can compare it to is how I live in Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, NC but parts of our smaller city have names like "Porter's Neck" or "Ogden" similar to Burroughs in NYC but way less populated. When I looked up what these are called, I was surprised a definition exists: "an unincorporated community and census designated place within the larger county". Apologies if I've written too much but I love to learn and just learned something new about my place, Porters Neck, and thought it may be useful for determining how to categorize other areas like this. If anyone were to ask for a similar established category, refer them to "Bethel Lutheran (Church) Cemetery, Franklin, Rowan, North Carolina". The Church is in the town of Salisbury, Rowan County, NC but at some point(?) the land was also designated as Franklin for Census collecting purposes. As further proof, my grandfather was once the minister at Bethel with the family living in the house beside the the church; their address was listed in Salisbury and my mom and grandma both said they "...didn't know what or where Franklin was..." but regular mail for the Bethel Church was sent to Salisbury while Bethel Cemetery is often still listed in Franklin, Rowan County, NC.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading and again for the fast reply about the category. I hope I didn't co.plicate things.
Cheers!
Becky Elizabeth/Simmons-11603
