Thank you, Dick: I will at least call them to see if they can help me. The surname I am searching is WOODWORTH, not WHITFORD though! Thanks for trying to help. Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hillenbrand" <nygenes@gmail.com> To: <nyoneida@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [NYONEIDA] Old Burial on "someone's" property > Carol, > > I checked the 1874 Atlas map for the Town of Florence on > www.historicmapworks.com and there were a bunch of "WHITFORDs" in the > Empeyville section of the Town of Florence. > > I am sending you a couple of scans under separate email. > > Looks like you would do well to take a trip to the Oneida Co. Clerk's > office > to determine which property would be the one you want. There are a "LOT" > of > them. > > Dick Hillenbrand > > > On 4/23/07, Carol Bain <cbain44@twcny.rr.com> wrote: >> >> Hi List! >> I have a dilema and am hoping that somone on this list might be able to >> help me. I want to find the burial place of my gr gr gr gr grandfather, >> Amos Woodworth. He was born before 1749 in Connecticut and he died >> sometime after 1791and I believe it was in the Town of Florence, Oneida >> County. His son (Amos, also) who was my gr gr gr grandfather was a town >> supervisor in the Town of Florence twice from what the records say. I >> was >> told that he (Amos Jr.) was buried in the Fruit Valley area of Oswego in >> a >> cemetery on Cemetery Road. I went there Sunday and I am very happy to >> have >> found his tombstone. However, Amos (senior), I believe is buried in the >> Camden area in someone's field. My Great Aunt (Gladys Boardman-Amos) who >> has passed away, went to a man's house in the Camden area and he let them >> go >> back into the field to see the stone. She put tracing paper on it and >> kept >> it, but no one seems to know what happened to that paper! Does anyone on >> this list know of a very old! >> house that used to be the Woodworth property? My Dad (who is 85 now) >> went with her when she saw the stone, and he said that the man let them >> look >> threw the windows of an abandoned old house on the property and he told >> them >> that this was the Woodworth's home. I'm afraid that my Dad can't >> remember >> exactly where it was. I would really appreciate any help. I would love >> to >> know if the stone is still there and if I might be able to take a photo >> of >> it. >> Thanks! >> Carol Bain >> P.S. Amos (senior) was a Revolutionary War Veteran and it was through his >> name that my Great Aunt joined the DAR. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > Dick Hillenbrand - (Please visit any of my websites below...) > Upstate New York Genealogy > website: http://www.unyg.com > blog (NYS) http://ny-genes.blogspot.com/ > blog (not NYS) http://genemisc.blogspot.com/ > member: Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYONEIDA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message