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| Glenwood Cemetery In Geneva, New York |
| This page is dedicate to the gravestons of my ancestors, and their kin, which have been located in Glenwood Cemetery in Geneva, New York. This page holds pictures of Andersen, Laws, Crandall, Kitney, Bagshaw, Hartman, and Sparks ancestors. There could be more. This area was visited August 2003. |
| This is the site of the Andersens' burial. The "hole" in the foreground is the stone of Eleanor Sparks 91833-1906), second wife of John. I had to dig down 2 inches to get to it. the "hole" further back is Albert (1872-1948) Andersen's stone. It wasn't as deep. I didn't find Emma. I am assuming she is in between Albert and Eleanor, but I didn't feel down deep enough to find the stone. There were other Andersens there, but no names I recognized. Maybe grandchildren? Look below for closeups of Eleanor's and Albert's stones... |
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| These are the stones of John W Bagshaw and his wife and family (on one side) and of his parents in law on the other. I did not dig up the stones of these Bagshaws. I may do that on my next trip. John is the brother of Robert S. Robert is the husband of Mary E Sparks, daughter of Henry and Hannah Sparks. I wonder who put the flowers on the grave? |
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| Margaret Hall is Mary's niece. Margaret's mom, Georgianna Sparks is buried on the other side of the stone. Henry Robert was Mary and Robert's only child. |
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| Henry and Hannah came from England. Georgianna died in North Dakota and was returned to New York for burial. Albert married, but left his family and lived with his sister, Mary. |
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| This is the stone of Charles W Crandall, likely the son of Ambrose and Maria Crandall. This would make him Eleazer's cousin. This guy died in 1917, but there is another Charles W buried in a different cemetery with Ambrose and Maria who was born the same year, but died much earlier. Either way, this Charles W is related. It is in the same plot, or the back side of the larger stone for Mary Ann and Eleazer. It is broken and was covered with bewtween 1 and 3" of sod. It got to be too deep to rip up with just my hands, so I left it like that. I have decided that next time I will take the proper tools with me. Minnie Crandall Laws may be buried here as well. She was buried in the old section before the new numbering system took effect. There would be, likely, many children buried with her as well. She had no stone, and I couldn't find the groundskeeper's building. I will do more work next trip. The Hartman family is the family of Hattie Hartman Crandall, wife of Charles, son of Mary Ann Sparks and Eleazer Crandall. Benjamin is Hattie's brother. Hettie and Charles are buried over in the new section, near here, but I was unable to find their stone. Note the tree branch behind. Something was stripping the bark off of the entire tree. You can see some of the pieces on the ground. The tree looks so beautiful, but will die very soon, I think. |
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| This is the Laws burial plot. William's stone is to the left. I have a few more pictures of family members' stones, but decided to jsut stick with William's in here. William was the husband of Minnie Crandall Laws. As far as I know, they had one surviving son, Ralph, who went on to attend school in 1932 or so. Up until that point, he lived with his uncle Charles, and his grandmother, Mary Ann. William remarried a woman named Minnie Hilkert. They seem to have had a son named Willis. She has disappeared by the 1930 census. She may have remarried, or moved to Canada (unlikely in that her parents were American). |
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| NERLICH |
| CRANDALL |
| KITNEY> BAGSHAW^ |
| This is Section 6 in Glenwood Cemetery. I have marked the names of several "inhabitants". Also present were a myriad of Cicadas, and a pair of young deer whom I saw twice while visiting. |
| Martha Nerlich married Alfred Sparks, son of Henry and Hannah. The couple is buiried here with Martha's entire family. It leads one to believe that Martha was the only child in the family to marry. Even then, I believe they had no children. |