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From: "Eleanor Nielsen" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Amwell Ridge Cemetery 12/13/2001
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:28:03 -0500
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THis sounds wonderful. I appreciate your work.
Eleanor

Subject: [NJHUNTER] Amwell Ridge Cemetery 12/13/2001


> 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
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> Galicia, Austria
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