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Subject: Dickersonville Cemetery Reading
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 02:10:50 -0400

In case any list members are interested, I've just completed a reading of
the Dickersonville Cemetery on Ridge Road in the Town of Lewiston,
Niagara County, New York.

The cemetery was founded by my ancestor Isaac Woolson in 1851. It
contains burials dating back to 1811, removed from the earlier
Pool/Woolson Cemetery which was destroyed. No burials took place at
Dickersonville between the 1930's and the 1980's; the cemetery was
abandoned during this period. It was reactivated in the early 1980's and
is still an active, if somewhat neglected, burial ground today.

It was an adventure going through the cemetery. I cleared away overgrown
brambles and weeds, pried up half buried headstones, and crawled around
on my hands and knees trying to decipher illegible 150 year old
inscriptions.

Right now I'm comparing my reading, stone by stone, with readings taken
in 1972 by Norman Peirce and in 1936 by Mrs Charles Woodell. I'm also
going to see if the Town of Lewiston has any "official" list of burials
or lot owners that I can look at. I should end up with about as accurate
a reading as we'll probably ever get.

I'll get the final product posted on the Web eventually. Feel free to
e-mail me if you think you have an ancestor or two buried at
Dickersonville. I'm getting to know them pretty well myself by now.

Raymond Scott Woolson
(brushing the dirt off his jeans)

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