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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Amwell Ridge Cemetery 12/13/2001
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:26:53 EST


I was at the Hunterdon County Historical Society (114 Main Street,
Flemington, NJ 08822) today. For anyone with connections in Hunterdon County
it is well worth the $15 annual fee to join and help maintain and improve
this valuable collection of your ancestors. They have a wealth of
information and are very helpful.

They have the book "Tombstone Inscriptions From Hunterdon County Cemeteries."
I am in the process of creating an Excel worksheet for Larison's Corner
Cemetery AKA Amwell Ridge Cemetery (pages 54-73). I hope to have it done in
about a week. The Tombstones were copied in 1918 by Mrs. A.B. Simerson, Jr.
For anyone who has ever tried to read a tombstone you will know that there
may be errors. Again I will not proof my data entry so if you have questions
please contact me. I believe these are the tombstones that are so damaged I
could not read them when I walked the cemetery. (So much warmer getting
information this way than walking the cemetery) At first I had thought I was
duplicating efforts but the Society said they did not have the tombstones for
the newer section that I did.

Here is information about the cemetery taken from the above book.

This cemetery is the property of the "Amwell United First Presbyterian
Church." It is located on the Old York Road, a half mile east of the village
of Ringoes, and in East Amwell Township. Originally it was a German Reformed
Church, with services in German. The first house is believed to have been
built of logs. The second, spoken of as "The Old Stone House," stood on the
north side of the present graveyard. The deed for the property is dated Jan
21, 1749, from James Whittaker to William Kase, Peter Hoffman and William
Bellowsfelt. "Trustees to and for the Calvinistical High Dutch Congregation,
in the Township of Amwell." The last German pastor was Rev. John Jacob Wack,
whose length of service is not definitely known, but approximately 1798-1805,
perhaps later. He was the first pastor to conduct services in English. In
1810 this congregation united with the "Amwell First Presbyterian," (now at
Reaville), and so continued until 1818, when the union was dissolved, and the
present building erected, but this church retained the title of "Amwell
United First." Here in 1816 the Hunterdon County Bible Society was
organized, and here its centennial anniversary was also observed. As four
years have elapsed since the inscriptions were copied, the list was checked
in October 1922, and stones erected since were added. A few stones copied in
1918 were not to be found in 1922, but are included here.

Laura J. Kandro
New Jersey
Researching Surnames: BOHACZ, BRATKOWSKY, CHOPSKY (CZAPSKA), DEMYEN, FEKETY
(FEKETI), GOLINSKY (GOLINSKI), KANDRATOWICZ (KANDRO) (KONDRATOWICZ)
(KONDRATOVICH), KONDRAY, KUCHINSKI, KUSDIOSKA, LISKO, MURAD, OSTROVERKY
(STOVERCHY), PAWLAK, RUSIN, SMARZIK, WASIL
Researching Places: Kupel, Volhynia (Wolyn) Ukraine (Poland & Russia);
Gubernia Witebsk (now Vitebsk, Belarus), Bukovini, Mal~opolska, Poland;
Galicia, Austria
US Residences: Oswego, Oswego, NY; Cherry Valley, Otsego, NY; Bridgeport,
Fairfield, CT; Stratford, Fairfield, CT; Milford, New Haven, CT; Culver City &
Inglewood, Los Angeles, CA; Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA

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