Someone is mowing the grass
& trimming around gravestones
in this small cemetery.
I just read an article in The Daily Gazette about neighbors bringing their lawnmowers to the untended Fisher Cemetery in Rotterdam and making it accessible to visitors. Small cemeteries face daunting odds to finance yearly maintenance costs.
Sections in General Municipal Law and Not-for-Profit Corporation Law offer options for small cemeteries that are underfunded. In the meantime, volunteers clean up cemeteries throughout New York.
A brief search of the internet led me to SaratogaNYGenweb and the listing of county cemeteries.
I am grateful to the volunteers that listed all the graves in this cemetery.
Alzina Wood's gravestone
Years of rain & creeping
surface moss have
wiped out much of the
information about her
death death year &
who her husband was.
A number of the gravestones
are broken.
Phebe Sherman
Widow of
William Wood
Born January 17, 1786
William Wood
Died....
.... Aged 74
Ruby G. Spencer
Died 1865
Aseneth
Wife of
Benjamin C. Dake
Died January 1, 1840
The next gravestone is much easier to read....
Sarepta Deake
Wife of Benjamin C. Deake
Daughter of Daniel &
Mary Wood
Died August 30, 1826
Daniel Wood
Died June 28, 1838
Henry Shepf
Died May 25, 1898
This gravestone is almost
unreadable...
Elmina Coons
The birth & death dates
are not clear....
My last photo of
The Wood Cemetery
Sending a big Thank You to NYGenWeb and the volunteers throughout New York who make genealogical information available to users worldwide.
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