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Chemung County NY
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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Terry Cemetery, Town of Veteran,
Chemung County NY
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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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Do You Know that you can search just the
search just the
860 pages of Chemung County Cemetery Records on on the site by using the Cemeteries -Chemung
button in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the
Current
What's New Page? If you use that partition follow these steps to
search just one cemetery.
1. Choose Cemeteries - Chemung
2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Comfort or Carr] AND a surname.
3. Choose the Find ALL Words option. Then it will find just the pages
with that surname in the one cemetery you indicated.
You will also want to search the three county level Obituaries by
Cemetery
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Terry Hill Cemetery
There is evidence of a cemetery which existed
at one time near the Northern intersection of Terry and Veteran Hill Roads.
This cemetery was located South of the home very near the edge of the road.
We have given it the name "Terry Hill" cemetery, until a proper name can
be located. There is the possibility that this cemetery was known
as the Terry's Corners or Pleasant Grove cemetery in years gone by.
This cemetery existed up to the mid to late 1940's. The farmer who
owned the land it was on took up the stones and used them in the foundation
of the barn he built. The cemetery itself was then plowed over.
That barn is still standing, the farm is now owned by Mrs. Axler.
The cemetery location and existence was described to me by my father.
He remembers as a youngster visiting the family who lived there and all
of the children used to play among the stones. He recalls the stones
when they were still standing in the cemetery, and says the cemetery was
fairly good sized. As a young man he and his father often worked
other farmers lands as that was the custom at that time. My grandfather
recommended to the farmer that he shouldn't desecrate the cemetery and
remove the stones, but he did so anyway. It is our belief that several
of the older people who lived in this area may have been buried there.
It is our intention to ask Mrs. Axler's permission to investigate the location,
the barn and to examine the abstract for the property. By doing this
we may be able to ascertain the exact location of the cemetery, and if
we find any stones, who might be buried there. We would then ask
permission to identify the spot and place a sign there. Any stones
we find would be returned to the cemetery and placed along the perimeter.
Town of Veteran Historians Tim Rodabaugh and Rick Smith can be reached
at veteranny@yahoo.com
Rick & Joyce, I just spoke with Eleanor Wilson. She and her
family lived at the old Terry Farm at the point of Terry & Veteran
Hills. I asked her about that cemetery that was near the house there.
She told me that it was called the Terry Cemetery, as that is who was mainly
buried there. She remembered that the Terry family descendants would
come every year and have their family reunion in their yard under the trees.
So now we have an actual name! Wanted you both to know. Tim
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On
26 JAN 2005
By Joyce M. Tice
Email: Joyce M.
Tice
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