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Benjamin S Schoonover

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Benjamin S Schoonover

Birth
Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
Death
8 Feb 1848 (aged 66)
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID
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There is no date information presently for this burial.

How this memorial was found: The quoted article below was a public notice intended to help locate next of kin for people buried in this cemetery, as the planned Tocks Island Dam project would have left them underwater.

Pike Co Dispatch
Thursday September 21, 1972

NOTICE

This is the second of a series af Notices by Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc., Engineers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for information needed by them to complete a survey and report concerning the existing cemeteries on the Pennsylvania side of the proposed Tocks Island Lake. The survey is being made for the Philadelphia District, Corps of Engineers, for the purpose of determining the actual number of graves, the names of the deceased, and the names and addresses of the next-of-kin or nearest living relative.

This Notice seeks information about the following cemetery located in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County:

- ELIZABETH SCHOONOVER PLOT -

Located along Hogback Road and known locally as THE INDIAN CEMETERY. The following names, or initials, were taken from headstones:

ELIZABETH SCHOONOVER
JAMES CORTRIGHT
D.S.
CATHARINE MARIA SCHOONOVER
MARY SMITH
BENJAMIN SCHOONOVER
ATHAR VANETEN
WILLIAM SMITH
A. H.
SUSANNAH HYNSHAW
B. H.
DORATHA SCHOONOVER
E. K.

There are apparently 45 other unidentified graves in the cemetery.

It is requested that the next-of-kin, or other relative, or any one having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of-kin or other living relatives of the above deceased, please notify:

Mr. Albert C. Hooke
GANNETT FLEMlNG CORDDRY AND CARPENTER. INC.
P O Box 193
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
There is no date information presently for this burial.

How this memorial was found: The quoted article below was a public notice intended to help locate next of kin for people buried in this cemetery, as the planned Tocks Island Dam project would have left them underwater.

Pike Co Dispatch
Thursday September 21, 1972

NOTICE

This is the second of a series af Notices by Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc., Engineers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for information needed by them to complete a survey and report concerning the existing cemeteries on the Pennsylvania side of the proposed Tocks Island Lake. The survey is being made for the Philadelphia District, Corps of Engineers, for the purpose of determining the actual number of graves, the names of the deceased, and the names and addresses of the next-of-kin or nearest living relative.

This Notice seeks information about the following cemetery located in Middle Smithfield Township, Monroe County:

- ELIZABETH SCHOONOVER PLOT -

Located along Hogback Road and known locally as THE INDIAN CEMETERY. The following names, or initials, were taken from headstones:

ELIZABETH SCHOONOVER
JAMES CORTRIGHT
D.S.
CATHARINE MARIA SCHOONOVER
MARY SMITH
BENJAMIN SCHOONOVER
ATHAR VANETEN
WILLIAM SMITH
A. H.
SUSANNAH HYNSHAW
B. H.
DORATHA SCHOONOVER
E. K.

There are apparently 45 other unidentified graves in the cemetery.

It is requested that the next-of-kin, or other relative, or any one having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of-kin or other living relatives of the above deceased, please notify:

Mr. Albert C. Hooke
GANNETT FLEMlNG CORDDRY AND CARPENTER. INC.
P O Box 193
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105


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