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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Glenwood Cemetery, Troy Township,
Bradford County, Pennsylvania |
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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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Photo by Joyce M. Tice
12 MAY 2001
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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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Do You Know that you can search just the
Bradford County Cemetery Records on the site by using the Cemeteries
-Bradford 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 - Bradford.
2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Ballard or Berrytown] 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.
See also - Bradford County Cemetery Addresses |
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Introduction and Table of Contents
Glenwood Cemetery in Troy is both one of the largest and one of the
most beautiful of our Tri-County cemeteries. It contains the remains and
commemorations of the earliest settlers of the area and its most recently
deceased present day residents.
Summer 2001 our group of dedicated Tri-County Volunteers have read and
recorded the very large Glenwood Cemetery of Troy PA. Shown above on the
first day of the project - not deterred by rain - are Kevin Chapman who
has literally grown up (several inches) reading cemeteries for Tri-Counties,
Connie SIMS Petris, Pat MOTT Gobea, and Ken Chapman. Many others joined
this starter crew as the work progressed. Ken's goal was to have the cemetery
on site by July 4, 2001, and if I know Ken, he'd have been out there with
a flashlight reading stones in the dark if that is what it took. Many thanks
to Glenwood's caretakers - the Loseys - who have been as cooperative and
helpful as it is possible to be.
This is one of the most meticulously prepared and checked cemetery listings
we have ever been gifted with. Following is the method used as explained
by Pat Raymond: We have read Glenwood in sections. All sections have
been numbered and a map made of the sections. Anyone typing a section
sent that typed list to Pat Raymond. When all the sections were read
and typed, lists were distributed by sections to a different person than
the one who originally read it, and that person went back to the cemetery
to check the typed copy to make sure that it checked with the stone.
Any changes were made on the typed copy and it changed on the copy
that sent in to Joyce. There are a Total of 10 sections, each is
bordered on all sides by a road. Section 1 begins at the main entrance
off Rt. 6 on the care taker house side. Maintaining a right hand travel
mode, section numbers progress upon encountering them.
The listing remains sorted by the order of the tombstones rather than
alphabetically (Except for the Old Section which is alphabetical). Who
the person is buried next to is part of the information we get when we
visit a cemetery, and alphabetization loses that for us. The Search engine
on the main page of the site will help you locate a particular name if
that is the way you want to approach it. You can also use the Edit - Find
in Page Command from your Windows Tools at the top of the page. Then you
can open each page and let it search for the name you are seeking. That
way you'll get to look at every page, each of which has a unique Glenwood
Photo.
I (JMT) want to say how very proud I am of this reading and of the
people who made it happen for the many thousands of you who are not in
the area and who benefit from this site. I want to give particular commendation
to Ken Chapman and Pat Raymond who led and coordinated this massive effort
and who also did the greatest part of the work. Without their determination
and discipline this could never have happened. I know they both spent EVERY
Saturday at the cemetery for weeks and weeks, and Pat wore her fingers
off to at least the second knuckle working on the typing and correcting,
as did some of the other volunteers. Many others helped both with the reading
and the typing and the checking, and we are grateful to them as well for
making this available to us. They are all super people, and we are very
fortunate to have them among our friends and fellow historians.
At Left, Connie SIMS Petris, Pat SMITH Raymond and Ken CHAPMAN at the
cemetery on June 9, still plugging away on the final stages of the project.
These folks are real troopers. |
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Subj: Glenwood Cemetery
Date: 12/31/2003 6:00:15 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:
To: joycetice@aol.com (Tice Joyce)
In Rev. Craft's Troy notebook at the Tioga Point Museum is the following
- In 1812 Old Elder Rich first adult buried Glenwood - three small children
had been buried there before.
Kelsey
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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 On05/12/2001
By Joyce M. Tice
Email: Joyce M.
Tice
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