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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Searles Cemetery, Town of Ashland,
Chemung County, New York
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Photos by Joyce M. Tice
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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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Do You Know that you can search just the
search just the
860 pages of Chemung County Cemetery Records on on the site by using the Cemeteries -Chemung
button in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the
Current
What's New Page? If you use that partition follow these steps to
search just one cemetery.
1. Choose Cemeteries - Chemung
2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Comfort or Carr] AND a surname.
3. Choose the Find ALL Words option. Then it will find just the pages
with that surname in the one cemetery you indicated.
You will also want to search the three county level Obituaries by
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This cemetery is located in the Town of Ashland, Chemung County, New
York, on County Highway #60, a short segment of former Route #17. It is
situated 1/10th of a mile north of the south intersection of this road
on a gentle slope about 200 feet distant in a dank, dark woods. The area
is littered with tree branches and sparse brush and is rather depressing.
Seventy-five years ago the area was open fields with fruit trees. Evidence
of an approach lane can be seen.
The burial plot measures about 50 feet in length and 30 feet in width
and is surrounded by a rusted wire fence with a wire gate, now on the ground.
Two large trees grow within the enclosure. The ground is covered with flat
field stones.
The data was copied by Joseph C. & Doris W. Boyd on April 10 1976,
after they were guided to the cemetery by Mr. Tappan. The data In ( ) does
not appear on the stones but has been added for clarity and interest. It
was found in Ausburn Towner's "History of Chemung County", thus establishing
the surnames of the given names on the shaft.
Family Photo 1887
| Surname |
First Name |
Birthdate |
Deathdate |
Age |
Notes/Inscriptions |
| Searles |
Josephine |
1849 |
1890 |
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(dau of Alfred & Sarah Searles. She has a separate headstone) |
| Searles |
Milton |
1855 |
1864 |
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(son of Alfred & Sarah Searles) |
| Searles |
Forrest |
1857 |
1864 |
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(son of Alfred & Sarah Searles) |
| Searles |
Alfred |
1820 |
1896 |
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(Born May 1, 1820 at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, Ny, the son
of John & Abigail Bell Searles of Orange County, NY. During the Civil
War he served as a master mechanic on bridges & mills & did carpenter
work, his headquarters being at Nashville, Tenn. He has a separate headstone) |
| Searles |
Sarah |
1823 |
1901 |
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(wife of Alfred Searles, and daughter of Amos & Ruth
Baker) |
| Elliott |
Charles |
1855 |
1929 |
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(he married Hattie, daughter of Alfred & Sarah Searles.
She is probably buried in the cemetery, but there is no headstone or data
on the shaft monument) |
Published On Tri-Counties Site On 12/2/98
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On
12/02/1998
By Joyce M. Tice
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Tice
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