Hi Robin, I'm in the process of transcribing this cemetery information for one of the one line cemetery sites, but it may take a few days. The witting in the book is VERY tiny for these old eyes!!! In re-reading the article I found this notation that may interest you. Two hundred and 212 inscriptions are recorded, probably twice as many, or half a thousand, lie buried there. I'm sure that somewhere you will be able to find the "missing burials" on you trip back "home'. Susan

What is the Fox entry? Thanks, Cindy

Hi, I hope they have the info I have been searching for on my 4th great grandfather Lorenzo D. (sometime "C") Keen b. abt. 1812 I think Barbara McCormick told me there are more people in the Sharptown ME Church cemetery than headstones. I hope that is what she was trying to tell me. If not---sorry Barbara. I have been searching for him for over 20 years and have only found a few things and his OBIT which did not mention where he was buried. The Lorenzo D. Keen that is in the cemetery is the others Lorenzo's grandchild. I hope my trip back home in a few months will be fruitful. Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Sally Smith<mailto:sallys@citlink.net> To: njsalem@rootsweb.com<mailto:njsalem@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] I forgot to send the info. Here it is! I have been there a couple of times. I found local family information. Also some maps of 1870's that told me where my 2nd great grandmother had lived. Sally Smith Waters and Reeve

Thanks Susan In a message dated 10/10/2006 1:20:27 PM Central Daylight Time, Flsu40@aol.com writes: In a message dated 10/10/2006 12:38:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Researcher0071@aol.com writes: saw Gregory and I am related to that line also. Please send me the Gregory information. Hi Janet, Just one listing, GRIGORY, Hannah d Mar 15, 1841, age 70 years. Hope this helps somehow. Susan

In a message dated 10/10/2006 12:38:47 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Researcher0071@aol.com writes: saw Gregory and I am related to that line also. Please send me the Gregory information. Hi Janet, Just one listing, GRIGORY, Hannah d Mar 15, 1841, age 70 years. Hope this helps somehow. Susan

Hi Susan, I was actually looking for Champneys but I saw Gregory and I am related to that line also. Please send me the Gregory information. Thank you, and thanks for offering this wonderful information to the list. Janet In a message dated 10/10/2006 10:12:30 AM Central Daylight Time, Flsu40@aol.com writes: I have decided to give the list the surnames of those recorded in 1900 as being buried in the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House Graveyard, near Sharptown , Salem Co NJ. When I get around to it I will post the complete list on the Salem Co Cemetery site. Susan SURNAMES: Hopefully this list will help someone. If you find a surname you would like me to check, just let me know and I'll check for you. Abbott Bee Bennett Borden

I have decided to give the list the surnames of those recorded in 1900 as being buried in the Old Pilesgrove Meeting House Graveyard, near Sharptown , Salem Co NJ. When I get around to it I will post the complete list on the Salem Co Cemetery site. Susan SURNAMES: Hopefully this list will help someone. If you find a surname you would like me to check, just let me know and I'll check for you. Abbott Bee Bennett Borden Bowen Clifton Danser Devenport Dolbow Dubois Fields Fox Gibison Giberson Gregory Haines Heritage Hillman Holton Horner Houk Humphreys Kaies Kiger Kirby Latchman Layton Locuson Lounsbury Matlack Mattson McAllister Nunerviller Price Riley Robbins Robinson Shultz Sparks Staulcup Steward Stiles Straughen Summerill Till Vanneman White Whitebread Wiley Wiltse Yourison

I have been there a couple of times. I found local family information. Also some maps of 1870's that told me where my 2nd great grandmother had lived. Sally Smith Waters and Reeve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Stinson" <robinpaulstinson@msn.com> To: <njsalem@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] I forgot to send the info. Here it is! > Is that list in the book complete? I heard the original church caught on > fire. Someone who worked at the Salem County Historical Society told me > that but I do not remember who. > > Also, > Woodstown has a Historical society (not a big one). Has anyone been their > and what papers, files etc do they carry? > > Thanks, > Robin > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Flsu40@aol.com<mailto:Flsu40@aol.com> > To: njsalem@rootsweb.com<mailto:njsalem@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:48 PM > Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] I forgot to send the info. Here it is! > > > The small 31 page paper back book "Sharptown Salem Co NJ" by Frank H > Stewart, President Gloucester Co HS, reprinted from the Salem Standard > and > Jerseyman 1931-1932. > > There is a section, with a Picture of the Methodist Church, Sharptown, > built in 1835 by the congregation of the Pilesgroce Meeting House which > was torn > down abt 1905. There is a lengthy history of the church and the > original > land owners. There is also a listing of "those who sleep in Old > Pilesgrove > meeting House Graveyard, near Sharptown, Salem NJ" > > There are no Keens listed here. Sorry! > > Susan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NJSALEM-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 > NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

In a message dated 10/9/2006 8:55:40 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, robinpaulstinson@msn.com writes: Is that list in the book complete? Here is the info from the book regarding this listing. " This list is believed to contain every name on headstones and monuments in Pilesgrove Methodist Meeting -house yard at the date of this record made in 1900. The date of death, which is approximately the date of interment followed by the age, is given whenever it appears on the memorials. It is impossible now to ascertain when theh yard was first used for burial purposes. Our historian informs us that Pilesgrove meeting-house, now standing, was built in 1795, by Joel Abbott. A picture of the old meeting house appeared in the 1904 edition of the Almanac and Year Book ( issued by the National Bank of Woodstown for 1904) It has since been torn down. The earliest inscriptions are those over the graves of three children of the Rev john Vanneman, who wwere buried in Oct and Nov of 1799. Issac herbert was buried on jan 1880; Margaret Fields in 1800 and Thomas Sparks in 1801" Some more information that you might find interesting follows. " The Society of Methodist, now worrshippin at Sharptown was orginated when Methodism was first introduced in Salem Co. The first regular preaching place of which we have any account was the house of William Clark. The house was built of brick and still stands, about a mile from Sharptown, on the road leading to Swedesboro. Now the farm of John Grispin and the old house was demolished a few years ago and replaced with a more modern structure. here the infant society continued to meet for years, and here the Word of God was preached by the first Methodist ministers in NJ. Here Abbott and his earnest associates in the ministry proclaimed salvation to the perishing souls. " "In the year 1795, it was resolved to build a house of God. A location was fixed upon, where now stand the old Pilesgrove meeting-house. The idea of building a church in the village was not at that time entertained on account of the extreme wickedness of the place. The house was built of wood, thirty five feet in length and thirty feet in width with a gallery in one end and was, at that time of the erection, considered a very commodious building. The old house still stand there, with recent repairs upon it, and is only used on funeral occassions." I'm sure that Woodstown would have additional material on this area, and it's growth. Susan

Is that list in the book complete? I heard the original church caught on fire. Someone who worked at the Salem County Historical Society told me that but I do not remember who. Also, Woodstown has a Historical society (not a big one). Has anyone been their and what papers, files etc do they carry? Thanks, Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Flsu40@aol.com<mailto:Flsu40@aol.com> To: njsalem@rootsweb.com<mailto:njsalem@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] I forgot to send the info. Here it is! The small 31 page paper back book "Sharptown Salem Co NJ" by Frank H Stewart, President Gloucester Co HS, reprinted from the Salem Standard and Jerseyman 1931-1932. There is a section, with a Picture of the Methodist Church, Sharptown, built in 1835 by the congregation of the Pilesgroce Meeting House which was torn down abt 1905. There is a lengthy history of the church and the original land owners. There is also a listing of "those who sleep in Old Pilesgrove meeting House Graveyard, near Sharptown, Salem NJ" There are no Keens listed here. Sorry! Susan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The small 31 page paper back book "Sharptown Salem Co NJ" by Frank H Stewart, President Gloucester Co HS, reprinted from the Salem Standard and Jerseyman 1931-1932. There is a section, with a Picture of the Methodist Church, Sharptown, built in 1835 by the congregation of the Pilesgroce Meeting House which was torn down abt 1905. There is a lengthy history of the church and the original land owners. There is also a listing of "those who sleep in Old Pilesgrove meeting House Graveyard, near Sharptown, Salem NJ" There are no Keens listed here. Sorry! Susan

Quoting pennybass123@aol.com: > could anyone look up the obit for venice smith died 2 jan 1989 and > haryd smith died 17 Jan 1996> thanks in advance ..if you cant loo up tell me how i may obtain the obits..i live in sc ==== Since you have posted this to NJ-Salem, does that mean you think one or both of the above died in Salem County, NJ? Is the first name of the latter definitely "Haryd," or would you care to re-check that, before busy people donate their time to make searches for you, and give up? If you post more details about the above Smiths, and any related family names from Southern NJ, and still no reader of this List can help, I suggest you contact both the Salem County Historical Society and/or the Salem Sunbeam newspapers, and pay for a copy from their obits. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

Hi, What did you use to look him up? Which reference book? Robin

In a message dated 10/9/2006 5:39:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, robinpaulstinson@msn.com writes: He is Charles P. Keen b. Feb. 1843 I'm sorry, but there are no Keen's listed. Susan

Hi, I forgot to send the info. So sorry. He is Charles P. Keen b. Feb. 1843 He is buried at the Sharptown ME Cemetery near the creek. I need his exact date of death. Thank You Robin

Hi, Which NJ Rootsweb group can do a OBIT lookup? Can someone here do it? I need his date of Death. For some reason I cannot find it. Thank You, Robin

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Hi, Is any of the Cushing and Sheppard book on line? I have a few pages I need to get a copy of concerning my family. Thank You, Robin

Hi, Is any of the Cushing and Sheppard book on line? I have a few pages I need to get a copy of concerning my family. Thank You, Robin

Hello, I took some pictures of that ceme. back in March. If anyone wants some I can try to email them to you. Also can you see if a Lorenzo D. Keen (b. 1812-14) and a Mary (Daugherty or Dougherty) Keen or any Keen's at all. Or a Aaron H. Lewallen/Leuallen (b. 22 Aug 1806) Thank You, Robin ----- Original Message ----- From: Flsu40@aol.com<mailto:Flsu40@aol.com> To: njsalem@rootsweb.com<mailto:njsalem@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [NJSALEM] Demolition of Methodist cemetery on Jill Rd. I have some information on a John M Lounsbury, died Jan 1, 1817 age 25. This information came from the small 32 page book I bought from the GCHS, "Sharptown, Salem County NJ," by Frank H Stewart, President Gloucester Co HS, reprinted from the Salem Standard Jerseyman, 1931-1932. There are 3 pages with information concerning the "History of Old Pilesgrove Meeting House", as well as a listing of those buried in that area, The Names of Those Who Sleep in Old Pilesgrove Meeting House Graveyard, Near Sharptown,Salem County NJ. There is no index, but I'd be happy to do look ups for that Cemetery. Susan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NJSALEM-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message