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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Prospect Cemetery, Mansfield
Borough, Tioga County, PA
Earlier called Hope Cemetery
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Aerial Photo of Prospect Cemetery
Section Numbers Assigned by Recorder
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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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Do You Know that you can search just the
600 pages of Tioga County Cemetery Records on the site by using the Cemeteries
-Tioga 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 - Tioga.
2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Newbury or Furman] 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. |
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Cemetery Prospect Cemetery, earlier called Hope Cemetery
Read By Linda Reese, assisted by Joyce M. Tice
Typed By: Pat Smith Raymond
Date Read: 2005-2006
Location: Mansfield Borough, Tioga County, PA. North Main Street
Additonal information, including own surnames of married women, added
by Joyce M. Tice - Sullivan-Rutland Genealogy Project.
SRGP IDs in last column are reference numbers for Sullivan-Rutland
Genealogy Project, an area population study
Section Numbers are assigned by the recorder. Tombstone readings are
listed in burial order so that the user can determine who is buried next
to whom for added information. Use the partitioned search engine at the
bottom of the current What's New Page to
search Tioga County Cemeteries only.
Prospect Cemetery, earlier called Hope
Cemetery, is one of only two cemeteries within the Borough of
Mansfield. It is very confusing to people from outside the area when so
many of the obituaries refer to cemeteries as being in Mansfield when they
are in fact in townships outside and surrounding the Mansfield area. The
confusion results from the ever expanding areas covered by fewer and fewer
post offices and the loss of all the names of places that USPS denies the
existence of.
Prospect Cemetery is located in the northern area of Mansfield on North
Main Street. It is managed by the same board that manages Oakwood
Cemetery, the only other cemetery within the borough. Prospect
is by far the larger of the two, but it is nearly full, so more of the
newer burials occur in Oakwood.
An abbreviated listing of this cemetery was recorded by Hilda Chance
in the 1970s. Mary Kingsley did a thorough inventory in 1982/1983. We found
stones buried under over six inches of soil that had been on the 1970s
listing and not the 1982 indicating that they "went under" during that
period. We also found some stones that were buried before either list was
compiled. There are some stones on the 1982 listing that we were unable
to locate. Cemetery office records are incomplete and some have been damaged
beyond utilty. There are also obituaries on the obit pages indicating burial
here for which no stone has ever been recorded., and I have found obituaries
indicating burial in Oakwood Cemetery but actually in Prospect and visa
versa.
Be sure to check the Prospect
Cemetery Obituary pages as well. All people on that listing are
arranged by surname at birth, rather than surname at death. If you have
obituaries for persons buried here that are not included please send them
in to me [Joyce.] Also send photos of people buried here if you have them.
| Tip From Joyce November 2007 : To search all of Prospect Cemetery,
use the Cemeteries Tioga County partition of
the PICO partitioned search engine. You'll find that at the BOTTOM of the
Current
What's New Page. Just type Prospect and the surname you
are looking for, and it will show you which pages of this listing on which
that name is found. Be sure to choose the Find ALL Words option.
The Prospect Cemetery listing is presented in order by tombstone
so that we do not lose the information about who is buried next to whom.
That can give you important clues. But if you are in a hurry take the search
engine shortcut. Don't forget the limitations that a search engine has
in alternate spellings. |
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 08/02/2007
By Joyce M. Tice
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