In "Pioneer and Patriot Familes of Bradford County" it relates that John Budd arrived in Columbia Township in 1816 and was a soldier of the American Revolution. Also, it states that he was a carpenter and made application for a pension 10 May 1830 and stated that his family consisted of himself and wife, aged 55 years. It is further related that John Budd was given a pension and died June 19, 1845 aged 83 years upon his farm and "was there inhumed in the family plot." His wife Polly died Dec. 25, 1841 aged 66 years. Judd Aber owns what was the Budd Farm at Budd Corners for over sixty years. In a telephone interview in October 2002, Mr. Aber informed me the cemetery was on a knoll on the east side of Lodge Hill Road or the northwest corner of the crossroads (Lodge Hill and Sopertown Roads). Markers were supposedly removed sometime before Mr. Aber acquired the property. Mr. Aber stated he had worked the knoll and surrounding fields for many years and never saw any evidence of any markers or burials. The DAR Patriot Index indicates that John Budd was born Jan 8, 1760 died June 19, 1845 and his wife was Mary Russell. Mary has a marker in the Morgan Cemetery at Austinville which reads - Mary, wife of John Budd died Dec 22, 1841 aged 63 years. John Budd and Mary Russell's daughter in law Aminta Gernert wife of Albion Budd died Dec 26, 1841 aged 37y 9m 10d and her name is inscribed on a monument in the Baptist Hill Cemetery. Aminta died four days after her mother in law Mary Russell. The death of Aminta may predate the Baptist Hill Cemetery as she has the second earliest date of death inscribed on a marker. A daughter of Aminta's died in 1844 and a son in 1847, whose names are also inscribed on the Budd monument along with Albion Budd and his second wife Celestia Parsons. Both Mary and Aminta's death predated John and their deaths were only four days apart and yet they have markers in different cemeteries. Deaths in the 1840's would have had single markers versus a monument and it is perhaps the family of Albion and Aminta who were reinterred at Baptist Hill, but yet Mary has a marker in the Morgan Cemetery at Austinville. John Budd is related to have settled in Columbia Township in 1816 but he was in the area even earlier as it would appear he is the John Budd enumerated in Delmar Township, Tioga County in 1810 and was a Tioga Township taxable in 1812. Known children of John Budd and Mary Russell: 1. Albion Budd b. 30 Apr 1798 m. Aminta Gernert (2)Celestia Parsons. 2. Philaria Budd b. 24 Nov 1800 Peekskill, Westchester County, New York m. Daniel D. Watkins. 3. Helon Budd b. c. 1803 m. Adelia Ingals. 4. Thomas Budd b. c. 1805. 5. Mary Budd, known as Polly, b. 7 July 1808 m. Phineas M. Clark. 6. Achsah Budd probably b. after 1810 m. William Smith. Does anyone have knowledge of the Budd Family Cemetery or is anyone researching this family? J. Kelsey Jones [email protected]