Chemung County Genealogy & History Sites How To Use This Site Erin Township Page Say Hello to Joyce   Read by Sherry, Stacy, and Chrissy Nichols in 1999 Typed by Linda Selub Photo by Joyce M. Tice August 11, 1999

Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 - 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 partitions

Name of Cemetery: Scotchtown Cemetery
Read by: Sherry, Stacy and Chrissy Nichols
Date Read: All burials found from the actual reading or records up to Dec. 1999
Typed by: Linda Selub
Location: Scotchtown is located about halfway between Breesport and Erin, NY. Coming from Breesport its on the right side of Route 223.
Organized: The First Associated Reformed Church of Erin was established in 1836 with the first burials around the church. The church was torn down in 1874 and the Scotchtown Cemetery Association was incorporated in 1880.
 

Dear Joyce,
        My name is Lloyd Appleby and I am the grandson of the late Raymond Earl Appleby. I am writing to you so you can update your records on your website of cemetery records of Scotchtown Cemetery. My grandfather, Raymond was 81 years
old when he passed away in 1980. I didn't see that on your cemetery records page though. Could you please see that it be added to the page under the headind of age?
         And according to my father Harold, my biological grandfather, Benjamin was 40 years of age when he passed away in 1946. I would greatly appreciate it if you could make these adjustments to the age category of the Scotchtown Cemetery records.

Sincerely,Lloyd D. Appleby

First, and foremost, thank you, and all of those who have & continue to contribute to your awesome site!

          Secondly, It may be of interest to some that my grandfather, Harold C. Bean, was the son of Charles V. and Elva D. (Blauvelt) Bean.  Furthermore, Charles? given 1st name was actually ?Vine?, and Charles was his middle name.  He reversed them unofficially because he didn?t like his given name as he felt it given in jest due to the long vine, so-to-speak, of children bore by his parents.  (Although, I do not know who his parents were and therefore cannot confirm by evidence, or otherwise, this story as passed down through the generations.  Any ideas?)

          Finally, the ?e? on the end of Bean was never officially added.  Elva added it in an attempt to be disassociated with the town drunk to whom they actually were related to.  Harold, his daughter Dorothea & son Peter, were all born as Beane?s.  The ?e? was dropped before my birth in 1973.

          Could you please see to it that Charles (Vine) and Elva Blauvelt are listed as the parents of my grandfather, Harold C. Bean?  Thank you so much.
Sincerely, Jennifer (Bean) Whelan

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