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From: "A. Beaudin" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER-L] Whitehouse Station
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:50:52 -0400

Hi there everyone!
Got the chance to visit the land of my ancestors--Whitehouse Station--and was
wonderfully impressed by the the helpful people that just seem to be everywhere
in the town.
The librarian at the Readington Library (converted Station) gave me directions to
all of the area cemeteries, helped me to figure out where my g-g-g-gf's farm was
from the old tax map, and provided some references for me to look up. Very very
sweet!
The sad thing, though, was the "Haypress Cemetery" which is down a dirt road from
the Station. Although (according to a gentleman in the area) the site is cleaned
out every 3 years or so by boy scouts, the cemetery is in a horrible state of
disepair, with the site totally filled with weeds, most stones have fallen and
crumbled. The first stone that I found had broken in half; I looked down, and saw
the name of my g-g-g-g-gm. Here's the best I can do with the inscription
(pictures will soon be up on my page):
In Memory of Phebe wife of Gerret V. Stryker who departed this life August the
27th 1821 aged 41 years and 7 days.
There was a time That time is past
When once I bloomed is coming last
That time will (broken here)
When (broken)
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