Steuben County - Cementeries - Good, Bad & Gone! by Helen Brink 2010

Description: Why a book about Steuben County cemeteries? Every year many people visit the offices of the Steuben County Historical Society and the County Historian in search of information about their Steuben County ancestors including where they were buried. In many instances they want to visit the cemetery. In 1978, under the auspices of the then County Historian Charles Oliver, a program was begun to record and index all available data about the county ceme-teries. This included the location of each and the reading and recording of the information on the tombstones. Since 1980 when this program was completed, several things have happened which prompted my dog Cricket and me to decide to embark on a project to update the existing cemetery information in our files. Road names had changed especially with the advent of the 911 system! Some roads no longer existed! Cemeteries had disappeared! Some "went under" on their own from neglect while others, sorry to report, were plowed under! Some were destroyed by road crews widening roads or building new ones! Inaccurate and/or insufficient directions in the earlier project often made it difficult or impossible to locate a cemetery! In addition to these reasons, updating our existing information would be an adventure that Cricket and I could do together. It would not only help our researchers but it would introduce us to every highway and byway in our large county. And this it surely did! Being "city folk", we had never heard of seasonal roads. We soon learned about them as almost every cemetery trip had us driving on one or two of them! I still have nightmares about some of them!!! We drove several thousand miles during the four plus years of this project. We drove through pastures and across farmers' fields, climbed over and through fences, rode on a 4-wheeler where the car couldn't go, and hiked many miles over hill and dale! We located a cemetery with its own 2-holer and one that has a plot reserved for a United States presi-dent. We learned about grave dowsing and white bronze markers and we saw all kinds of things that people leave on graves. All of these things and more you will read about as you travel with us through the 32 towns of Steuben County in our search for the cemeteries that should be right there - somewhere! Cricket and I began our project in the spring of 2006. Armed with a county map...(from foreword)

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