Glee kindly sent me the copies of her pages. Most of the burials were those of the Low Dutch who remained in the area and or non-Dutch who attended the church after 1800. But the marked burials are either memorial stones placed there by descendants and or stones marking graves after 1800. Few of the early fieldstones markers are left, but enough are that we do have a few with initials which at some point I am going to try and identify as well as make a list of others who were buried there prior to 1795 or so. The drawings of the graves are not the original plot plan kept by the ministers, but at a later date someone took the time to at least draw and mark the graves as they appear at that date. The drawings are undated and the artist is unknown, however it may have been Arthur Weaner. I have many photo's, but of course they only give a general sense of the over all picture. I know that there was a problem with vandalism , especially in the Southern cemetery which damaged stones so that not all graves have markers due to this problem. The Adams County Historical Society has never been interested in this Church, their interest is Gettysburg. Dr. Gladfelter is now deceased also, so our sources and or access to the Conewago Records at the Society are non accessible as they are closed for renovations. The PA State Library is extremely limited and while there is a published list in the Adams County section, it is not as extensive as the one Glee has. The PA State Library is very limited in their genealogical section as they rely on donations vs purchasing new materials and that doesn't apparently occur often these past few years. Judy Judy On 04/23/13, marguerite puca<jerseymap@gmail.com> wrote: Could you take pictures of the 7 pages (plus map) and post the pics? On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Willora Glee <[1]gleek@ptd.net> wrote: > I have given money in the past to maintain the Conewago cemeteries. I > was given in the past the list of who is buried in the North and > South cemeteries of Conewago. I also have a plot map for them. I > could share them but there are seven pages and I cannot post them to > the list. I have had these maps and burial lists for a long time for > over 15 years. If memory serves me right I shared them with Carolyn > Leonard and her Dutch Cousins list. I could post the burial lists but > not to plot maps. Maria Stryker Banta is supposed to buried in one of > the two cemeteries but there is not listing for her nor is there a > stone for her. She was buried to Henry Banta 4th. He is supposed to > be buried there too. I descend out of them. How do you want me to handle > this? > Glee Van Osdol Krapf > > > At 11:12 AM 4/22/2013, you wrote: > > > Both the Dorland Cemetery on Sunset Road in Montgomery Twp. Somerset > > County, NJ and the Conewago Cemetery on Swift Run Road are comprised > of > > grave makers which are basically field stone rocks which, if lucky, > are > > marked with initials and a date. The date of the Dorland > > Cemetery is around > > 1735 with burials ending by 1800, while the Conewago Cemetery > probably was > > established ca. 1772 however burials continued into the 1900's > > with only two > > burials, one a gypsy boy buried ca. 1910-1912 and David Weaner burial > in > > 1964. More times than not, there is just a stone marker and those > can be > > just the tip of the stone, the stone may have sunk into the ground, > fallen > > on its side so only a odd shaped stone sticks up, that kind of thing. > Most > > of these are rough read colored stones at Conewago and field stones > which > > seem to be cut in a long narrow shape with an indent half way > > down the stone > > at the Dorland cemetery. > > Conewago RDCh. families later erected the more familiar gravestones > on a > > few family plots, but today there are many unmarked graves, the > > field stones > > long gone. There was a man, Gerry Byers, a german man who was > employed by > > the church in the 1700's who was the custodian of the cemetery, > whether or > > not he was responsible for the cutting of the field stones was never > > mentioned but these were not just superficial stones, they were > > long enough > > and mostly narrow, as were the Dorland stones to be sunk deeply into > the > > ground. > > The Dorland field stones were crushed by heavy farm equipment > > which had been > > parked there and/or pushed down under the ground by the weight of the > > equipment. While the Conewago Cemetery was enclosed by a stone wall, > the > > Dorland cemetery was never that fortunate. There is a limited list of > > burials for Conewago but in order to determine whether or > > not your ancestor > > was actually buried there, the baptismal, deacons records and > > wills need to > > be consulted. They are not going to actually state that so and so was > > buried there, however. Since the church was located next door to the > > cemetery, later closer to Route 30, and there was also a southern > cemetery > > for the use of the Low Dutch living in that area. If someone in this > > community died between 1772 and say 1804 when the church was closed > what > > remained of the congregation scattered to other churches. Some of > these > > families were buried in the church cemetery. Burials did, as > mentioned > > take place after 1804, as not all families migrated to Kentucky or > Ohio, > > however, they were few. Burials in the early years seemed to be not > in > > family plots but when the person died, so you have the members of the > > congregation mixed together. Initials and dates, if lucky, were > > chiseled or > > scratched into the stone but they were professionally done. That may > have > > been Mr. Byers job to do. He and his family also migrated down to > Kentucky > > in 1783 -1790. > > At one time apparently there was a list of burials and a map showing > their > > location at Conewago which the caretaker in 1963 had in his > possession. > > Arther Weaner could never get him to show this map to him. He could > point > > out the location of who was buried where, but that document has > > never been > > made public, we know from the John Dorland Cremer book that 30 > > to 40 burials > > were in the Dorland cemetery with head and footstones. > > The major concern is that throughout many counties and states because > they > > ancient Dutch burial grounds did not look like what people in the last > > century felt cemeteries should look like, well then they were just a > field > > of rocks. This is probably been the largest cause of their > > demise, farmers > > plowed them under, developers built houses on them, that kind of > thing. > > Does any one else have a early Dutch family cemetery or know of a > Dutch > > Church cemetery in which the early burials were marked with field > stones? > > Judy Cassidy > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >DU[2]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DU[3]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DU[4]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:gleek@ptd.net 2. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 3. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com