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From: "Pamelyn P. Bush" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Important!! Cemeteries (more!)
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 21:47:10 -0400
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Sharon,
Thanks for your emails about our cemeteries and especially the old Bound
Brook Pres Cemetery. Allan Duncan, Robert Longcore, and Dottie Stratford
were 3 of the 4 principal speakers at the semi-annual meeting of the NJ
Genealogical Society at Yellow Frame Church in Sussex county, last Saturday,
June 2, sponsored in part by the Sussex County Historical Society. They were
all excellent speakers, thus the article in the Star Ledger about them.
Dottie talked about the GSNJ Cemetery hounds from their start in 1921 to the
present. Their inscriptions are now housed at Special Collections, Rutgers
Univ. in New Brunswick, on index cards and typed manuscript format and have
been appearing in the Genealogical Magazine of NJ for 80 years. And Allan
Duncan did give Hank Smith credit for getting him started with his social
services cemetery projects with incarcerated teenagers, which produced a big
round of applause from the audience. Everyone is concerned about the state
of our old cemeteries, but no permanent solution has been proposed. It is
volunteers like us who copy inscriptions and hope that one day these stones
will not disintegrate from acid rain, grounds-caretaking neglect or
vandalism. As for Bound Brook, nothing prepares one for the despair of
seeing what has happened to those stones and how they are disappearing into
the ground from the grass growing over them from all sides. Fortunately the
monument of the most illustrious of its inhabitants can't be placed flat:
the tall obilisk of Dr. William McKissack, the founder of Masonry in New
Jersey and George Washington's personal physician during the NJ campaigns of
the American Revolution.
Pam Bush
Milford, NJ

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From: "Sharon Colquhoun" <>
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Sent: June 08, 2001 9:40 AM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Important!! Cemeteries (more!)


> This is yet another article from The Star Ledger of
> June 7, 2001.

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