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This page provides
access to the over 10,000 record database that the Society maintains on
cemeteries, obituaries, and individuals' death records. The data
include much relationship and anecdotal information as well. This data
has come to the Society from a variety of sources and individuals over
many years; unfortunately very little of it is documented. Consider it
good clues to further research.
In the early years
of the Society a significant effort was made to discover, clean, and
document the many cemeteries in town. Volunteers did their best to
clear years of overgrown brush, trees, and weeds to find neglected,
buried, and sometimes missing grave markers. Readable inscriptions,
including names, dates, epitaphs, and relationships were recorded on
the cards which became the source of this database. Rubbings were made
where possible. The database eventually was augumented with individuals
who had connections with town and are likely to be found in the course
of research. Thus you may find some who died and were buried elsewhere,
and some who were cremated or offered their bodies for medical research
and thus have no burial site.
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