Thanks, Jeannette, for that information about your relatives in the Newman Cemetery, and for sharing your memories of it. As I looked back over the surname list I emailed to the PASUSQUE-L, I found the entry 'Banetta?'. I read into a small tape recorder as I walked through the cemetery, and when I checked the tape a couple of minutes ago, it's clear that 'B' should be a 'V'. I'll wait awhile to see if there are any other additions or corrections emailed to me, and then will forward to Mary Jean a corrected list showing Van Etten. The list I transcribed from my tape has on it only the first occurrence of a given surname. I think there were a number of West stones mentioned on the tape, as well as more than one Prentice stone (I think). But I don't have the time right now to go back through the whole tape, which might run for about 90 minutes since I recorded at the slowest possible speed. There were many stones that I couldn't read or could read only partially. After a while, I gave up trying to read the whole of most stones (getting dark, rain coming on, bugs, and poison ivy!), but since I was still fresh at the point when I came on the Van Etten stone, I actually had a bit more information about it on the tape, as well as the West stone near it. This is what the tape says at that point: Eugene L. West, 1842-1913, Susan M., his wife, born 1852 (no death date indicated). Rachel, wife of David Vanetta? (can't read end of surname) died 27 Dec 27 1885, age (can't read). That I couldn't read a portion of the stone doesn't mean no one could read it, especially if that person had a hint from other sources what the characters might be. So I hope anyone with any corrections or additions to this list of surnames will email me. In fact, if you have additional information that could help turn the list of surnames into a complete detailing of the stones, I'd like to hear from you. My own ancestor's stone was within a few feet of the West stone. It's a broken obelisk that, if you could still read it, would mention 'Armina, wife of Asa Green.' I'm going to do another email to the list about the matter of illegible stones, so more on that later. But I do want to stress that my surname list can't be complete because of the condition of the stones. The legibility of some could be restored if treated with bleach, which I think I read in a different forum would not further damage the stone. But other stones are just beyond help. And that's so sad. We probably need to start trying to get the information off fading stones while they can still be read. More on that later. Thanks again for your response. Bob Green ----- Original Message ----- From: <RiJe6365@aol.com> To: <PASUSQUE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:14 PM Subject: Re: PASUSQUE-D Digest V00 #194 > Bob, > thanks for posting the Newman (or Hasbrouck Hill) cemetery list. > > One name that missing is my great-great-grandmother, Rachel VAN ETTEN. > Supposedly her husband, David VAN ETTEN is buried there too, since we can't > find him anywhere else. > > One of the WEST names, (assuming there is more than one) is Susan WEST, da of > Rachel VANETTEN and first md to Charles H. PRENTICE, then to a WEST. > There may be a few more names that I can come up with later, but looks like > you got most of them. > > Am familiar with the area as I was born, many years ago, just down the road > from the foot of the hill. As a very small child, used tolook out our > kitchen window in the midst of an evenings snowfall at the cars trying to > make the hill in the snow. > > Jeannette. >