Does anyone know if the Old Riverside Cemetery in Middletown and the Mcdonough Cemetery are the same cemetery? It seems as though I have many of the same ancesters buried in each! Thanks, Jack
I'd never heard that, but apparently your supposition is correct. Check the overlaps in this list for McDonough http://www.rays-place.com/cemeteries/711-19.htm and this list for Old Riverside http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/old_riverside.htm So where does the name "McDonough" come from? -- Nobody of that name is buried there. And note that many of the Old Riverside gravestones apparently were made of Portland stone quarried across the river, the same stone used a couple of centuries later for the brownstone houses of NYC -- i.e., easy-to-carve sandstone. The NYC houses show the ravages of time after little more than a century, with the exposed faces spalling, often badly. My suspicion is that many of the earliest Old Riverside gravestones simply spalled away into little piles of sand. Slate gravestones fared much better, as seen e.g. in Old Granary Burial Ground in Boston. I once took a rubbing from Mother Goose's stone http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1498 -- when it was still legal to do so. My then-girlfriend helped (or maybe I helped her?) and later got custody of it. :-( Best, Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Wyatt" <m2wyatt@sbcglobal.net> To: <CTMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:30 PM Subject: [CTMID] OLD RIVERSIDE VS. MCDONOUGH CEMETERY | Does anyone know if the Old Riverside Cemetery in Middletown and the Mcdonough Cemetery are the same cemetery? It seems as though I have many of the same ancesters buried in each! | Thanks, Jack | | | ==== CTMIDDLE Mailing List ==== | You can search the archives for the list at | http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CTMIDDLE | | ============================== | Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the | last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx | |