Of that colony a pastor for the church of St. Luke's was Reverend Stephen M. Tuhy which served in 1934 was its first one. The congregation was growing so the residents completed a brick church completed in only 5 years later. Which then in the 1990s a sanctuary had also been added. The original section is now an entryway area.

In 1915 a company offered ten acres adjacent to the church to be used for a cemetery. The road to the cemetery was very poor so it was relocated to the south where it sits today. Perhaps that explains the many open fields on the road it sits on today which stretch beyond the cemetery. The first person that was buried here was a John Mikler which was an 11 year old boy in 1933. Notice the fact that I photographed this stone.

Slavia was a very small colony their were saw mills, small farms, taverns, etc and many of those buried here are from this colony. The stones are simple their are no crypts, vaults, or family plots. Most stones have English writing or Slovak on them. Their is a little chapel which sits in the middle of the cemetery.

Their use to be an old shack I believed used as a general store and by the blacks in the area. That shack use to sit along the edge of the cemetery till it was moved in the 1990s elsewhere. For many years it was used as storage but became an eyesore to this cemetery.

Many report ghost activity here such as feeling a very uncomfortable presence near the chapel. Others claim they have trouble breathing or they get scratched. When you hear stories like this it makes you wonder cause we had a lot of fun in this cemetery hiking around, climbing, walking in the dark etc. Its a real peaceful place the graves are spread out and although you could feel a ghost or two here they are hardly threatening. 

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