Hi Jeannette, When I visited the Newman Cemetery last week, I was very impressed that someone was putting so much work into identifying graves with the many, many hand-carved rough slate stones sprinkled through the plots. Since that seems to be one of the first steps in restoration of a cemetery recommended on that site I mentioned in a previous email to the list (http://www.gravestonestudies.org/), I wonder if some person or group is actually in the process of restoring the older section of Newman. Would you give me a lead on that if you know? If you can come up with the name/address of that caretaker living in Great Bend, that would be great. I'd especially like to find out if they've rediscovered the records I asked about when I wrote them 25 years ago. I did have a big 'oops' response when I read in your posting: ' Years ago I checked at > the LDS Family Hx Center in Binghamton, NY ("just down the road a piece") for > Newman Cemetery listings. At that time there was....' If someone has already recorded the cemetery, I've wasted some time in my work on it. I should have checked both the Historical Society in Montrose and the Family History Library Catalog first. Your comment motivated me to at least reference the Family History Library Catalog for the other Susquehanna County cemeteries I'm working on. Thanks very much for that. In fact, I don't find any reference to the cemeteries I'm interested in. Strangely, not even the Newman. Was that information you refer to in the LDS Family Hx Center in Binghamton kept there locally only? I would like to check it for the information I'm after on the Green family. I intend to check with the History Society in Montrose before I go ahead with work on the other cemeteries. Have to say, I was charmed by the tone of your comments about the Newman. It's always nice to come upon someone else who understands that, as important as the information on the stones is, a cemetery is so much more than the data that can be collected from those gravestones. Thanks, Bob Green ----- Original Message ----- From: <RiJe6365@aol.com> To: <PASUSQUE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:21 AM Subject: Re: PASUSQUE-D Digest V00 #195 > Just an added bit of info on the Newman Cemetery : Years ago I checked at > the LDS Family Hx Center in Binghamton, NY ("just down the road a peice") for > Newman Cemetery listings. At that time there was an error for the VAN ETTEN > inscription. The listing was typed "Mannetting or Mannetten, I think. > > There is a Newman Cemetery caretaker living in Great Bend, whose name I > can't come up with right now...but on my last several visits to cem., it was > evident that some restoration work is in progress. It is a BEAUTIFUL site, > but then I'm prejudiced, as I have several Prentice, Van Etten, (maybe > Roosa), Chamberlin,relatives buried there. AND, (very important ( : )), my > old schoolbus -driver, Mr Dixon, is also interred there. > > Jeannette >