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From: "jwl" <>
Subject: Fw: [NJHUNTER] Ancesters of Ephraim Tharp of Hunterdon County
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:58:50 -0400

The Tharp-Garrison Cemetery is on Route 579 in Bethlehem Township approx.
1
mile north of the intersection of Route 579 and 614 on the Bethlehem Twp.
-
Alexandria Twp border. It is on a dirt lane just across from Goritz Road.

The property that it is on is being developed by Toll Brothers and they
plan to put 23 homes on the site now called "Hunterdon Woods". Through my
intervention with the planning board (I live adjacent to the property) and
with the help of Marshall Lake - a descendent of James Garrison and Dinah
Robbins (also in the cemetery) I was able, as part of the subdivision
agreement, to get Toll Brothers to define the cemetery, change the road
slightly, put up a fence surrounding it and --most important-- have a
certified historian on the site when they start working directly next to
the cemetery!! They showed little concern for it as it is an
unincorporated
one and figured that no one would care in case they "paved paradise and
put
in a parking lot" since it is very overgrown and for the most part
ignored!
Ephraim Tharp and Susan Jarrard are buried in there as well as a few
other
Tharps. Let me know what information you need on the headstones and I
will
get it for you. An e-mail to Toll Brothers headquarters in Pennsylvania
or
a phone call to their office telling them your relationship to the people
buried there would be of great importance as they figured that no one
cared
and at the planning board meeting I got the distinct impression that if in
construction some of the headstones disappeared "oh well", OOPS! I took
pictures of all the headstones in the cemetery and presented them at the
planning board meeting right in front of the Toll Brothers representative
so he knew that someone nearby as well as a direct relative (Marshall
Lake)
is well aware of how many headstones are supposed to be there. Another
relative would add ammunition to the fire to make sure that Toll Brothers
follows the agreement. The road is going in no more that about 20-25 feet
from the first definable headstone and my concern was that in building the
road they would not take any care whatsoever in how they rode their
construction vehicles in that area. As a condition of the subdivision
agreement they have to distinctly mark out the cemetery before
construction
in that area is started and I will be checking to make sure that they do
it
or the public (ie:newspaper) will definitely hear about it.

Jackie Wells Lubinski


> ----------
> > From: mary t tharp <>
> > To:
> > Subject: [NJHUNTER] Ancesters of Ephraim Tharp of Hunterdon County
> > Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 3:01 PM
> >
> > Does anyone have info. on Ephraim Tharp b.1803 and wife Susanah
> > Jarrard.b. 1817...would like to find out who thair parents were...also
> > Charles D. Tharp b.1879...wife Kate..looking for their
> > children...alexandria or bethleham twp..contact Mary
> >
> >
> >
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