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The Stevens Point Cemetery – Unmarked Graves

March 30, 2009

Although there aren’t any stones or markers that bear these names, old records show that these souls do rest in the Stevens Point Cemetery in Stevens Point, Pennsylvania.

Missing grave markers in the Stevens Point cemetery.

Missing grave markers in the Stevens Point cemetery.

Remarks by Daniel Rockwell about the burial of Oliver and Nancy Rockwell

Unmarked Graves
Adams, Robert – b. 1853 – d. 11-17-1901
Alexander, Charlotte – Died 12-28-1893 Aged 63 yrs.
Arnolds, Martha – b. 1842 – d. 3-13-1913 (Father-Alfred Howe)
Brown, Eugene – Died 9-29-1901 Aged 2 yrs. (Son of Horace and Bella Brown)
Brown, Melissa – died 6-26-1943 – 13 yrs. old (Death in a Scranton Hospital)
Buchanan, Elmer – Died 7-5-1905 Aged 40 yrs.
Buchanan, Jennie – b. 1881 – d. 4-14-1937 (Husband – Alfred Buchanan)
Burchell, Nina – b. 1849 – d. 1-15-1914 (Father – Moses J. Hines, Born in Ohio)
Campbell, Elizabeth – b. 1839 – d. 11-19-1914
Campbell, James – Died 1-27-1903 Aged 26 yrs.
Chadden, John – b. 1825 – d. 11-7-1916 (Father – Thomas Chadden)
Cook, Laverne – b. 1912 – d. 6-25-1912 (Parents – David and Elizabeth Cook)
Deyo, William – Died 8-30-1903 Aged 55 yrs. (Stone in S. P. Cemetery gives this date to Lucy Deyo)
Franchiocti, Pasqual – b. 1870 – d. 1-17-1915
Graham, Nellie – b. 1887 – d. 4-23-1931
Holford, Lewis – b. 1826 – d. 9-28-1913
Johnson, Elizabeth – b. 1-28-1868 – d. 9-12-1937
Johnson, Helen – b. 1846 – d. 3-27-1916 (Father – Elijah)
Jones, Ethel – b. 1886 d. 9-10-1954 (Spouse – Frank)
Jones, Frank – b. 11-7-1878 – d. 8-20-1943 (Spouse – Ethel)
Lebig, Anna – b. 1893 – d. 7-26-1935 (Father – Samuel Paugh)
Lee, Alfred – b. (no dates) – d. 7-16-1945 (Father – Oliver Lee)
Lee, Edna – b. 9-19-1886 – d. 7-4-1936
Lee, Gilbert – b. 6-28-1909 – d. 4-6-1935 (Father – Oliver Lee)
Lee, Robert E. – b. 8-28-1907 – d. 2-3-1942
Mead, John – Died 11-12-1901 Aged 73 yrs.
Mellons (Melious) George b. 5-15-1872 – d. 8-21-1952 (Father – Alonso)
Milks, Alta May – b. 1890 – d. 11-26-1901 (Father – Lucious Lee)
Moore, Celia – b. 1911 – d. 10-18-1911 (Father – William, Born in Wayne County)
Mott, Lillian – b. 6-14-1879 – d. 12-31-1943 (Spouse – Thomas Mott)
Mott, Thomas – b. 11-17-1974 b. 11-3-1943 (Spouse – Lillian Mott)
Prentice, Mary – b. 1846 – d. 11-26-1910
Ramey, George W. b. 1864 – d. 9-26-1917 (Father – William Ramey)
Ramey, Nathan – b. 1833 – d. 2-8-1918 (Father – Nathan Ramey)
Rogers, James – b. 7-24-1874 – d. 12-30-1943 (Spouse – Stella)
Rogers, Stella – b. 7-15-1891 d. 4-22-1945 (Spouse – James)
Sampson, Carrie – b. 12-1-1870 – d. 2-8-1943 (Spouse – Ralph)
Smith, Gorman – b. 1867 – d. 4-15-1943 (Born in Scott Township)
Terrell, Calvin – Died 10-3-1895 Aged 72 yrs.

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Ianthus and Hannah Storer Walker

March 29, 2009

Researching family history is a bit like unraveling a big ball of tangled yarn….if you have patience and perseverance, you might end up with enough yarn to make a nice sweater but if you give up too easily and cut away half the knots, you might only have enough for a pair of small mittens. The same goes with searching out family members from the past, sometimes it just take time, patience and perseverance. And with the right mixture of all three, you might be able to sort out some of your relatives! That was the way it seemed when a few years ago, I began to be interested in Ianthus and Hannah Walker, my great, great grandparents. I had seen beautiful portraits of both and I realized that I didn’t know too much about them-where they were born, where they had lived and what other children they might have had. I only knew that they were my grandfather’s– Ray Milton Rockwell– grandparents. Ray Rockwell’s mother, Mary (Walker) Rockwell was their daughter and Mary (Walker) Rockwell had a twin sister, Sarah (Walker) Carnegie.

Ianthus Walker

Hannah Storer Walker

It was only by chance that I happened upon Ianthus’s civil war card at a Veterans Administration and my interest was peaked when I learned that he was buried alongside his first wife, Hannah (Storer) Walker in the Brandt Cemetery in Brandt, PA. I was thrilled to see that the names and dates were still pretty legible. The quest was on!

Ianthus Walker Tombstone

Hannah Storer Tombstone

Ianthus W. Walker was born on July 13, 1836 in the little town of Sanford, NY to unknown parents. He gives no information about parents or siblings in his Civil War Pension Papers, just his birthdate and where he was born. His name first shows up on an 1850 census as a 14 year old boy living with a Thomas and Debbie Henderson, in 1860 he is married to Hannah Storer and they have a small daughter, Harriet. He is elusive in the 1870 census – his name can not be found. In 1880, Ianthus is living in Tioga County, NY and is married to Abigail (Carnegie) with several children, I have found out later through Ianthus’s Civil War Pension Papers that some of the children are Hannah’s and some are Abigail’s.

Ianthus Walker once farmed a large piece of land in Stevens Point but sometime after his return from Civil War, he moved to Brandt and was employed by neighbors to do farming and light carpenter work, at one time he worked at the Brandt Chair Factory. He came home a wounded man, was only able to work some of the time and as he got older and was steadily worsened by his wounds; he was barely able to keep employment at all. It has only been through Ianthus’s Civil War Pension Papers that I have been able to piece together this life story…I have posted numerous pages from his pension papers along with his and Hannah’s portraits, their gravestones, so you, too, can see how the Civil War had affected this small family from Harmony Township.

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The Stevens Point Cemetery

March 28, 2009

The Stevens Point Cemetery lies within the boundaries of the little village of Stevens Point, PA. It is an old cemetery with some of the earliest stones dating in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s, some of the stones are still crisp and legible while others have been worn away with the weather and time. Some graves are marked with plain bluestones or have just a field stone to grace their last resting place, while others graves have nothing at all. Rose bushes from ages past still adorn some of the unmarked graves; lily of the valleys can be found growing in places where there are no stones. Old oak trees and giant pines lend their quiet beauty to this cemetery, a final resting spot for those folks from Stevens Point and the other little villages that are only a few miles from here….

Steven Point Cemetery Sign

Stevens Point Cemetery sign at Burdick Hill Road

Steven Point Cemetery - March 2009

Photos of all the individual tombstones in the Stevens Point Cemetery (taken in March of 2009) can be found in the Steven Point Cemetery gallery.

Markers

Carr, Susan – 1847-1935
Carr, Erastus – 1848-1942
Hotaling, Mabel L. (Baby) 1950-1951
Hotaling, John E. 1905-1963
Hotaling, Laura J. 1910-1996
Hotaling, Christopher 1881-1950
Hotalling, Mabel L. 1889-1867
Hotaling, Margaret Louise 1906-1939
Sampson, Ralph O. 1882-1842 (Buried next to Hotalings)
Hobart, Nathan 1884-1940
Hobart, Elizabeth 1883-1955
Reigles, Susan Wayman 1875-1957
Reigles, George 1865-1928
Brown, Media E. 1889-1952
Brown, George H. 1877-1945
Brown, Lulu 1929-1943
Brown, John L. Brown 1922-1944
Brown, Fenton F. April 9, 1924-May 2, 1987
Hobart, Edith Pearl (no dates)
Melious, Ruth (no dates)
Hand, John (no dates)
Squires, Luellie Oct. 22, 1892 (See rubbing for this name)
Paugh, Maria June 18, 1902
Nickerson, Clarence Aug. 20, 1909
Howe, Edward 1832-1915
Howe, Lucy J. 1843-1910
Burchell, Ernest E. May 13, 1900
Wheeler, Orin (no dates)
Wheeler, Floyd 1902 (baby)
Wheeler, Earl 1903 (baby)
Brown, James W. May 13, 1897-74 yrs. old
Kuhn, John 1882-1895
Kuhn, Elwin 1877-1899
Kuhn, Roland 1896-1913
Kuhn, George 1879-1932
Kuhn, George P. 1851-1920
Kuhn, Arvilla 1855-1904
Kuhn, James 1889-1919
Kuhn, Martin 1880-1945
Kuhn, Myra 1884-1962
French, Harry A. 1916-1977
French, Irene M. 1917-no date
Carnegie, Elmer (First name only on stone but buried in lot with the Carnegies and Walkers)
Carnegie, George L. 1870-19–(no date)
Walker, Abbie Carnegie 1858-19–(no date)
Carnegie, Samuel H. 1827-1901 (First name and initial only on stone but buried with the Carnegies)
Carnegie, Jane Rockwell 1832-1908
Carnegie, Ianthus 1889-1903 (see rubbing)
Carnegie, William F. 1862-1931
Carnegie, Sarah E. 1869-19–(no date)
Kany, Frank W. 1873-1956
Kany, Anna L. 1877-1940
Walker, Maud 1880-19–(no date)
Rockwell, Albert J. 1918-1996 – Veteran Plaque behind stone
Rockwell, Betty (Geer) 1926-1996
Rockwell, Barbara M. 1928-1991
Rockwell, Ray M. 1896-1972
Rockwell, Olivia M. 1897-1988
Geer, Floyd H. 1912-1973
Geer, Anna L. 1913- 19– (no date)
Holford, William (no dates)
Finch, Orlando W. 1872-1948
Finch, Lydia B. Shay 1889-no dates
Smith, Frank 1867-1943
Smith, Hattie 1878-1922
Furman, Nancy E. 1875-1921
Luscomb, Edward 1846-1922
Luscomb, Blanche 1860-1929
Histed, Frank H. 1877-1918
Histed, Jessie Luscomb 1882-1974
Guyer, Hiram (no dates)
Guyer, Abigal Adare 1828-1905
Histed, Sarah 1904-1904
Rockwell, Tiffany Cora Aug. 6, 1991 (baby)
Rockwell, Robin Marie 1974 (baby)
Botts, Rebecca 1975 (baby)
Rockwell, Harrison Phillip April 17, 1998 (baby)
Brown, Lee (no dates)
Brown, Edward W. 1900-1932
Lee, Oliver A. 1875-1919
Lee, Eliza J. 1881-1964
Robinson, Dr. James K. 1845-1915
Tewksbury, Charles L. 1849-1918
Tewksbury, Hattie (Walker) 1857-1949
Woodard, William May 7, 1901
Woodard, Sarah C. Oct. 8, 1994
Woodard, John 1855-1921
Hobart, Pauline Simmons Mar. 13, 1906-Mar. 5, 1981
Hobart, James 1928-1936
Hobart, Zaidee 1859-1935
Melious, Laura 1917-1923
Melious, Julia 1899-1925
Hobart, Ben 1854-1913
Burchell, Frank 1835-1913
Putnam, Francis E. Jan. 9, 1838 – Aug. 28, 1913
Putnam, Theodosia V. April 16, 1842 – Nov. 29, 1903
Hobart, George Albert, Sr. 1888-1958
Hobart, Laura June 1889-1964
Hobart, James H. lOct. 31, 1905 – Feb. 11, 1980
Keesler, Mary E. 1923-1923
Keesler, Ray C. 1895-1946
Keesler, Ruth L. 1893-1980
Rockwell, Albert A. 1863-1924
Rockwell, Mary N. 1869-1947
Rockwell, Charles 1885-1909
Rockwell, Barney 1828-1909
Rockwell, Susan 1839-1914
Rockwell, Sarah (no dates)
Jones, Gladys 1914-1946
Buchanan, L. N. 1841-1903
Buchanan, Dortha A. 1850-no dates
Hotaling, John 1845-1929
Hotaling, Rachel 1858-1913
Terrell, Dellwin Sept. 1, 1881 – Dec. 23, 1895
Johnson, C. S. 1862-1910
Burchell, Horace Mar. 13, 1931 Aged 83 yrs.
Buchanan, Wesley 1862- no dates
Buchanan, Sarah 1862-1937
Vennerstrom, Victor 1886-19– (no date)
Vennerstrom, Mary E. 1882-19–(no date)
Deyo, Lucy Lee Nov. 15, 1847 – Aug. 31, 1903
Deyo, Daniel T. Mar. 3, 1904
Deyo, Daniel T. 1844-1904 – Civil War Plaque
Deyo, John H. 1879-1952
Deyo, Rose 1884-1907
Sampson, Leora F. Feb. 1929
Sampson, George R. June 12, 1922
Stephens, Agnes Jan. 1909
Sampson, George, Jr. Sept. 20, 1900
Seamans, William E. 1830-1912
Seamans, Sarah L. Owen 1832-1920
Wilson, Fredrick L. 1852-1921
Wilson, George T. Feb. 22, 1899 Aged 13 yrs.
Wilson, Cora May 3, 1899 17 yrs.
Decker, Roscoe 1904-1917
Decker, Ida Penny May 20,1870 – Nov. 25, 1933
Penny, Merilla Pool 1840-1910
Penny, Nathan 1836-1918
Charrington – Aged 100 yrs.
Seamans, Samuel A. 1870-1951
Seamans, Carrie I. Dickinson 1874-1941
Stevens, John B. July 18, 1895 Aged 75 yrs.
Stevens, Roxey B. Cargill April 24, 1901 Aged 76 yrs.
Birchard, E. L. 1852-1913
Birchard, Louisa Hovencamp 1850-1931
Hobart, Gene Parker Aug. 3, 1932 – April 24, 1944
Hobart, Winthrop R. 1901-1978
Hobart, Lynnie T. 1906-2006
Parker, John W. Nov. 10, 1912- May 11, 1913
Parker, I. Richard 1875-1939
Edwards, William F. Aug. 15, 1854
Edwards, Polly Squares Nov. 223, 1854-Jan. 25, 1901
Parker, John R. 1877-1964
Parker Hattie F. 1877-1938
Parker, George 1834-1899
Parker, Narcissa J. 1840-1920
Parker, Harry 1903-1903 (This stone has only a first name but lies with all the Parker stones)
Parker, Baby 1905-1905 (This stone has only a name of “baby” but lies with all the Parker stones)
Parker, Lydia T. 1870-1962
Wright, Morris 1839-1912
Wright, Mary Smith 1839-no dates
Spears, Audrey T. 1903-1929
Spears, Alvin G. 1872-1943
Spears, C. Maude Putnam 1876-1958
Barton, Charlie 1895-1976
Barton, Mary A. 1898-1978
Barton, Stanley B. 1917-1999
Barton, Mary E. 1919-1987
Cokely, James A. 1936- no dates
Cokely, Charlotte R. 1937-2003
Butts, Alan B. 1950-1989
Butts, Marjorie R. 1927-1996
Butts, Thomas George April 23, 1956- no dates
Butts, Rebecca Marie Jan. 2, 1957-Dec. 17, 2007
Burdick, Leonard M. July 14, 1920-Mar. 29, 2005
Burdick, Josephine G. Dec. 29, 1927 – Aug. 23, 1998
Marcum, Clayton M. 1935-1988
Marcum, Hulda B. 1944-no dates
Kany, Milton M. 1907=1979
Kany, Clara J. 1920-1985
Wheeler, Jeffrey Nov. 7, 1958-no dates
Wheeler, Susan Barton Mar. 28, 1962-Oct. 5, 2006
Barton, Robert E. Feb. 26, 1921-Nov. 18, 2004
Barton, Beatrice Welch Aug. 2, 1930-no dates
Barton, Robert Eugene – Veteran Plaque
Barton, James W. Dec. 24, 1954-April 10, 2002
Eggleston, Laura Ann Brown Apr. 14, 1965-June 14, 1996
Rockwell, Benjamin John June 21, 1980-Feb. 28, 2004

A previous survey of the Stevens Point Cemetery from June 26, 2001 can be found here.

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Old Home Days At the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church and Community Hall

March 22, 2009

For several years throughout the 1930’s and the 1940’s, the men and women of the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church held a social gathering called “Old Home Day” in the adjacent community hall. This huge undertaking involved days of cooking, baking and organization in the hall to accommodate literally hundreds of people for an homemade turkey and dressing dinner complete with all the “fixins”- fresh baked rolls and brown breads, oven baked beans and all kinds of handmade pies. People would come from miles around to enjoy this delightful day with family and friends – a day for good eating and reminiscing. If the weather was cooperative, a few of the pews would be taken from the church and placed out in the church yard where the guests that were waiting to be served could sit and visit while waiting for their turn at the dinner tables. Because the hall could only hold about 50-60 people at one setting, dinner guests were issued tickets and numbers were called as room became available.

Old Home Day 1939

Mary Walker Rockwell - Old Home Day 1939

Old Home Day 1939

Long wooden benches lined each side of the wooden tables and the food would be served by the younger ladies of the community. A ledger was kept at a small podium for the guests to sign in, buy their ticket. You will find their signatures as they were presented on those “Old Home Days”– on what are now honeyed pages complete with a little worm wood. Old Home Day sign in pages from the Stevens Point Methodist Episcopal Church and Community Hall are listed in the galleries links.

Old Home Day Ledger

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Quarry Documents

March 21, 2009

These documents were typical of quarry transactions of the period.

Walter Glover Quarry Receipts

Pennsylvania Blue Stone Company

Putnam and Whipple Stone Company

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The Hobbs Quarry

March 21, 2009

This picture is of the Hobbs Quarry in Stevens Point. This quarry was located past our grandfather’s farm (Ray Rockwell) on what is now called, “Rockwell Road” . The original picture is a black and white 4” X 8” print pasted on heavy gray cardstock. No names are written on the back. Two people can be identified in this picture-the man with the heavy white beard on the far right is Bernard (Barney) Rockwell because of a labeled portrait of him that is in our possession. Barney Rockwell was the grandfather to Ray Rockwell. The little boy in the picture is either Ray Rockwell as a child or his older brother, Charles. A picture that came from Ethel Rockwell shows this boy at this exact age but with no name on the picture. My brother thinks that he remembers our grandfather, Ray Rockwell, saying that it is he in the picture. (Charles Rockwell died as a young man of 23 as a result of a quarry accident; he was hit in the hip with the boom and passed away after two years of bed rest). Ray Rockwell was born in 1898 and he looks to be about 10-12 in this picture, making the date to be in the early 1900’s.