Westminster Cemetery

The old Union Meeting House that stood in the center of the cemetery served as a hospital for the wounded from Gettysburg.

The Union Meeting House served as a hospital for the Gettysburg wounded, and the cemetery is an interment site for some soldiers. Five Union veterans are buried in a lot that was owned by Mary Shellman. The meeting house was demolished in 1892; the site is marked at the center of the cemetery. Memories of the meeting house continued to live on, however, after its demolition. Shellman remembered:

“The old ‘Meeting House’ which was used as a hospital, and was built before the Revolutionary War, was torn down a few years ago, but until that time bore on its time stained walls and the wood work of the high pulpit, many autographs and pathetic messages of the soldiers who spent that memorable week under its friendly roof.”