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by Bill Sanders - July 25, 2007
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A largely unknown and hard-to-locate cemetery.
This cemetery is "about 1/2 mile down a pathway", which my friend says is apparently wide enough for a car, but I don't know how much room there would be to turn around at the end. Obviously, this cemetery is "landlocked" on all sides, forcing either the private property owner(s) to allow people to cross their land, or for people to trespass to visit it.
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AKA: The Old Friends Cemetery and the old Quaker Cemetery in Westfield.
From my understanding, they needed to develop a road or two directly through this small cemetery. They decided to remove all the headstones, placing them in a nice "park" beside the original location, and made the road right over the buried bodies. There's a nice plaque, listing those buried, near here. However, finding the exact spot where a grandfather or great-grandmother is buried will now be impossible, and historians and genealogists have no way to determine who was beside whom, unless a lot of photographs of the entire cemetery were taken, and all of the names listed.
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The cemetery, itself, is very nice and in great condition, except for these stones.
Pictures from December, 2006 - These stones may have been damaged and/or removed from their actual location by vandals, and simply stacked back here until a full accounting of where everyone is buried can be located, and a restorer hired. However, I've been back there since, as has my friend, and these stones have not been moved.
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AKA: Pleasant View Church and Cemetery
This is a beautiful and seemed to be well-kept cemetery, except for a few fallen and leaning (older) stones.
Picture from August, 2003 - This stone was just one of a few. Many of the stones at this cemetery are leaning precariously, and many cannot be read. (NOTE: The church was destroyed a number of years ago, leaving only the cemetery.)
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AKA: Mounts Runn Cemetery - This is a very nice, well-kept "country" cemetery.
Picture from March, 2004 - This stone was still readable, but it's obvious that it's deteriorating, badly. In case you're interested, it says, "JULIA A / Wife of / ROBERT DOOLEY / A Daughter of / A. [Augustine] & J. [Jane Bush] SHELBURN / DIED / Sep. 18, 1849 / Aged 47 ys. 2 / m. 10 d."
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AKA: Old Blue Cemetery
The cemetery, itself, is very nice and in great condition, except for and probably other stones.
Pictures from 07/2007 - When I went to Farley in July, 2002, these stones were, apparently, completely buried - I couldn't find them. This year, my friend went back to Farley, and found them, right where they were supposed to be. Now, obviously, they have a "weathering" problem, too, but they keep sinking back into the ground and are covered by the grass and leaves (obviously happening here). And the latter stone is either completely weathered to unreadable, or it's a "base", as was noted in an earlier listing of the cemetery. I, personally, believe it's a stone like Louisa's, but has either been flipped over, or weathered away. (It's part of the same plot.)
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A largely unknown and hard-to-locate cemetery.
See the little green patch in the middle of the brown by the "pin"? That's Smith Cemetery. Obviously, it is "landlocked" on all sides, forcing either the private property owner(s) to allow people to cross their land, or for people to trespass to visit it.
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by Bill Sanders © July 25, 2007 - email:
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