Glee, If you have a moment to email them, I would love to have the documents. You're right: you can't attach them to list posts. But you can attach them to emails. God bless you for wanting to share. That is very precious information. Nancy nancyterhune@optonline.net On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Willora Glee wrote: > You cannot post attachments to this or any out list. I have the plot > maps in the computer now and also the list of the burials. > > > At 12:40 PM 4/23/2013, you 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 <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 >>>> DUTCH-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 >>> DUTCH-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 >> DUTCH-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 > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message