The Northern Cemetery is the original cemetery created when the Church was built and the community was established, the Southern was later in origin. Judy On 04/24/13, Willora Glee<gleek@ptd.net> wrote: According to Eksa Banta's book Banta Pioneers on page 98 Maria Stryker Banta was killed by a falling tree in March of 1778. Her husband died in 1777 and he is buried in the Low Dutch cemetery near Hunterstown, PA. he probably died of smallpox. I thought that the northern cemetery was the oldest of the two so guessed that they were buried there. If they are listed as being buried in the southern is fine. I do not think that anyone really knows any more which cemetery they are buried in north or south. At 01:29 PM 4/24/2013, you wrote: > Dear Carolyn; > According to Arthur Weaner, "The list of gravestones in the > Northern/Osborns > Low Dutch Cemetery, Straban Twp., list no stones for this > surname. However, > one of the wives of a Banta who resided at 'Loss and Gain" the Banta home, > was killed by a falling tree in a storm and buried in this cemetery, the > location of which the late Samuel Russell Osborn ascertained > from his map of > the cemetery. > Since the Baptism and the Deacons Records were written in Dutch, I would > expect that any inscriptions on gravestones installed prior to say 1790 > would be also. Since many of the current stones are memorial > stones erected > in the 1800's, it is possible that the Banta family removed the original > stones with the intention of erecting a memorial stone, but > never completed > the plan. > Judy > > > On 04/24/13, Carolyn Leonard<[1]carolynleonard@me.com> wrote: > > Hi Willora, > Henry and Maria Banta are listed in the southern cemetery. > Do you have any thing that we could use as proof that Maria and > Henry Banta > are buried at the northern cemetery? If so, I can ask Findagrave > FAG to move > them to that list, but I have to have something that says definitely WHERE > they were buried, Northern or Southern, or maybe at the Low Dutch Reform > church of Conewago (that would be northern) or maybe names Brush Run road > (also northern). > Here is a hot link to the SOUTHERN Low Dutch Cemetery sometimes called > Youngs: [1][2]http://goo.gl/cLNo0 > I would love to move them to the Northern -- after all they lived there in > that cabin across the road. Wasn't their land named "Mount Misery" or was > that a different Banta? The southern cemetery was a few miles away, which > would not have been logical in that day; Henry died 1777 and > Maria in 1778. > Shirley Wood is the volunteer responsible for posting and updating their > memorials. I think she just posted them in 2011. > Blessings & best wishes, > carolyn > Findagrave volunteer (#47319116) > On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Willora Glee Krapf on > du[2][3]tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > >>>> 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. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DU[3][4]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >References > > 1. [5]http://goo.gl/cLNo0 > 2. [6]mailto:tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com > 3. [7]mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >DU[8]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[9]TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message References 1. mailto:carolynleonard@me.com 2. http://goo.gl/cLNo0 3. mailto:tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com 4. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 5. http://goo.gl/cLNo0 6. mailto:tch-colonies-request@rootsweb.com 7. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 8. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com 9. mailto:TCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com