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From: Rose Zella <>
Subject: Re: [WHITNEY-L] Cemetaries
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 21:26:51 -0600
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> Just returned from a short trip to New England. Visited the Wheelock Village Cemetary in Wheelock, Vermont. Found the resting place of some of the Whitney's.
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Sharing your trek to tthe cemetery was great. I will keep this list and check a couple names. Thanks for sharing.

Now if someone ever has a mind to go to the cemetery in Rochester, Vermont and do this I would also be
interested and grateful. I'm quite sure my great grand parents are buried there. A year ago when I was in
Vermont we stopped at the cemetery. (Didn't know that there was that possiblity at that time.)It was quite late in
the day and we needed to be
back to Montpelier
so didn't look around much. Found a Whitney at the front of the cemetery and wrote it down and when I got home
was able to find him in Pierce decided he was something like a 3rd cousin.
I love the old sayings on the stones. Strange how they wrote so much then when it all had to be done by
hand. I have found evidence that my Grandfather Whitney was a granite lumper and evidently did work
on tombstones.
How I would love to go back to Rochester and other places in Vermont and dig around some more now
that I know more of how to do it. But getting on an airplance right now doesn't seem to interest anyone
in this household and its a lot of miles by car to Vermont from Wyoming.
I believe winter is on the way and we will all have more time to look up famiy history.
Take care all,
Rose Zella


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