> Tracy Creek cemeteries are fine- I have ancestors there- and live not far from. Cheryl Switzer Deuel > > > Subject: Tracy Creek (Vestal) Cemeteries > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 14:24:45 -0700 > From: Helen Graves <hgraves@psln.com> > To: NYBROOME-L@rootsweb.com > > Is there anyone on the Broome Co NY list who lives in Broome Co. who > could tell us what the status is of the old cemeteries in Tracy Creek? > > Have their burial records been abstracted and published? > Is there a caretaker or someone watching out for the cemeteries? Is > there a Town Historian for Tracy Creek? If not, what town historian > would cover Tracy Creek area? > > -- Helen Graves > (I live in California.) > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: Cemetery preservation > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:09:11 -0400 (EDT) > From: goodspsm@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu > To: NYBROOME-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi Vicki, > That update was good for us to know about. I noticed the one > cemetery that people cared enough to repair the tombstones. I hope that > they were very careful as to just how they did it.... I've been reading > the stones in the Riverside Cemetery in Oneonta, Otsego Co. (it's oldest > cemetery in Oneonta & has most of the early settlers buried there) and > many stones...especially old ones... have been repaired but when they were > cemented back together, they not only cemented the center and back but > they also cemented the front....covering the names and/or dates. That has > been so frustrating! I'm sure the company mentioned bebow didn't do > that but if anyone is involved with old cemeteries wanting to restore > their stones, it's something that they should be aware of. This was not > an old abandoned cemetery...it is a cementery that belongs to a church. > It was a really good deed, trying to repair the stones but I don't think > whoever repaired them realized that they should have tried somehow to > preserve the front or at least the information as there are no records for > the oldest portion the cemetery. > Thanks, Vicki, for always giving us lots of information to keep > us abreast of all that is happening. Sandy, Maryland, NY > > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Vicki Titus wrote: > > "Last summer, a vandalized cemetery in Whitney Point, NY had the stones > > repaired by a group that does stone work. All the costs of the repairs was > > donated, so where there's a will, there's a way. " > > I don't know the solution to the situation, especially for those of us > > living so far away. Local people could volunteer to help by recording > > small unused cemeteries to at least try to save them before they disappear, > > but for the rest of us.... > > > > Vicki