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From: Frances L VanScoy< >
Subject: [OHHURON-L] praise for cemetery book
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:02:51 -0500


Just wanted to add to the chorus praising the Huron County cemetery book!

Mine arrived last Thursday. I stopped by my house briefly after work
to pick up the mail and was strongly tempted to skip my evening meeting to
look through it (but I went to the meeting).

My father was a teacher and principal in the South Central and Willard
school districts. He also had a contract from the Greenwich Township
trustees for roughly 30 years (mid 1950s - mid 1980s) to mow four of
the township cemeteries: Nineveh, Quaker, Kniffen, and Washburn. My
mother and I often helped. I copied the inscriptions from Kniffen
and much (maybe all) of Quaker in the 1960s but don't know where my notes
are.

Thursday first I looked at Nineveh to locate entries for my VAN SCOY
and STRIMPLE ancestors. (I gather that full inscriptions weren't always
copied for the book, since the verse that was on a stone about half way
up the hill wasn't in the book. "Take heed good friend as you pass by.
As you are now so once was I. As I am now so you will be. Prepare for
death and eternity." This may not be 100% accurate since I'm quoting
from memory from about 28 years ago!) All present and accounted for.

Next I decided to check the index for my elusive great(4)-grandfather
Brundage KNAPP. I was really excited to find his name in the index
and turned to the section for the Fitchville cemetery to look for him.
Alas. No monument; name from cemetery record (?). I wasn't *surprised*
since my father and I had searched that cemetery years ago looking for
a monument for him.

Then I "went" to the Quaker cemetery to look for my "friend" Willis
Smith, a Quaker active in the Underground Railroad. I think I found
his entry, listed as Willie. (He has a memoir in either an old Firelands
Pioneer or an old Huron County history which I read and re-read so often
in the 1970s that I almost memorized it and felt as if I knew him.)

I looked briefly at the entries for the Kniffen and Washburn cemeteries
and then rather reluctantly looked at Greenlawn (in Greenwich Village)
where my parents are buried. I spent a long (and sentimental) time
reading the Greenlawn names, and remembering people--old and young--whom
I knew while growing up. (And I found my MARVIN and VAN SCOY great-grand-
parents.) (I'm in my 40s, by the way.)

So...I'm *very* pleased with the book. You all who worked on it
did an *outstanding* job. I'm looking forward to many hours of enjoying
it--both for genealogy and for reminiscing.

Frances Van Scoy

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