----- Original Message ----- From: Virginia McElroy To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 10:44 PM Subject: Conklin/Comfort Cemetery Hi Ed & Sandy Dickinson, the cemetery that you were in is called the Rosstown or Christian Hollow Cemetery. Lucy Conklin died Feb 5, 1901 and is buried in a family plot on a farm on the Christian Hollow Road. It has been referred to as the Conklin or Comfort Cemetery. But there are no records of the cemetery. I have not been out there but the former Historian was. She records that the cemetery is located two and one half miles up the Christian Hollow Road from the Route 14 intersection on the west side of the highway. It is situated on a farm owned (1988) by a Jeffrey Judson. This cemetery is located to the right side of the highway, down an embankment in a pasture field. One has to cross Christian Hollow Creek. You continue approximately twenty-five feet and five stones were found on a small plateau of land; however, only one could be read and it was of Lucy Conklin (date of death not readable, but believed to be in the late 1800's. Two large trees are nearby. During the flood of 1972, this stream overflowed its banks and it is a possibility it may have washed away more of these stones from this cemetery. This farm was originally part of the Watson Tract of land. A man by the name of Valentine Miller owned many acres here in the valley at one time. Around the early 1900's, a person with the name of George Comfort owned this property and later his son Otis Comfort, lived on these premises. The former Historian Nelda Holton visited this site in 1988 will Carol Mallory who lives next door to the farm. I believe her house number is 742 Christian Hollow Road. Hope this helps some. Virginia McElroy, Southport Town Historian.