County Home Burial Records

West Burlington Township, Bradford County, PA

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This has been adapted from records compiled by Dick McCracken, Director of Veterans' Affairs in Bradford County and they were submitted to this site by him.

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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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
Cemetery Nr. 210, County Home Cem (County Manor; County Farm).

347 records.  Death date range:  5/8/1881 - 2/1/1938

Death and burial records for Bradford County County Farm Cemetery; north of US Rte 6, behind county prison, east of W. Burlington landfill.  Approx 1/2 mile from highway, no road or trail.  Cemetery contains only 7 headstone, all of which are U.S. Government Issue.  All seven are veterans of the Civil War.

Approx. size of 1/2 football field.  Perimeter easily defined; plowing around the area, which formerly was fenced, left the entire cemetery raised one or two feet
above present adjacent surface.  Cemetery is now under a second-growth canopy and needs little care, however the county should provide an access road and memorialize all who are known to be buried there.

Source:  Bradford County Dept. of Veterans Affairs;
         Richard J. McCracken, Director.  Court House
         Towanda, PA 1848.   570-265-1704


Bradford County Farm was first a poor house, it became a combined poor house/old folks home (Bradford County Home), and is presently a first class Nursing/Skilled Nursing home (Bradford County Manor).  Those buried on the property were indigent.  Some few were removed to private lots by family members later.

There is a large ledger(s) from which the information on the burials was extracted.  There is other information available about other residents in the ledger(s).  Access to this information would have to be done via a visit to the manor - they do not have the means/manpower to answer inquiries.  I assume that arrangements to access the old records should be made through telephone contact with the administration at:  (570) 297-4111 during normal business hours.

Dick McCracken
 
Last Name First Name Middle Name Title Age Admitted Date Admitted Where From Where Born Date of Death Where Buried Remarks
AMES William H.   73 12/05/1883 Herrick Orange Co, NY 03/02/1887 County Farm  
AMSDEN Mary     74 07/29/1883 Owego, NY Windham 09/15/1883 County Farm  
ARMSTRONG, George                 County Farm Civil War veteran, no headstone
ARNOLD John     67 08/05/1885 South Waverly, PA   11/27/1885 County Farm  
AUMICH Abigail     34 08/15/1884   Asylum Twp 02/17/1885 ? burial  
AVERY Addison J.   63/68 04/22/1915   Tunkhannock, PA 02/20/1921 County Farm  
AVERY Rachel     87 04/20/1881 Granville   10/16/1881 County Farm  
AYERS Jane     65 04/20/1881 Granville   10/16/1889 County Farm  
BABCOCK Mollie     30   Tuscarora   01/31/1882 ? burial  
BALDWIN John     78 09/04/1891 Monroe NY 01/17/1892 County Farm  
BALDWIN John Henry   14 05/09/1881 Tuscarora   11/01/1889 County Farm  
BARTLETT Judson     9 06/28/1882 Orcut (Orcutt) Creek Orcut (Orcutt) Creek 12/02/1883 County Farm  
BARTLETT Lock D.   86 08/28/1889 Ridgebury VT 11/26/1895 County Farm  
BASKET (Bostwick) John     1/1/02 05/02/1890 Towanda   10/11/1890 County Farm Surname probably BOSTWICK
BEAM Adam     82 05/17/1881 Monroe   05/12/1883 County Farm  
BEARDSLEE Frankie (female)   7 04/21/1881 Columbia   05/27/1883 ? burial  
BECKWITH Russell     40 10/06/1884 Warren     ? burial Died 1885
BEEMISH or BEERNISH Abraham     72 06/05/1895 West Burlington Ireland 06/06/1895 County Farm  
BEERS Guy     18   Athens   06/29/1888 County Farm Admitted in 1882
BENADICT       Infant 12/23/1895 Athens     County Farm Date of death not recorded. Mother's name was Anna, age 30.
BENJAMIN Clarissa     60 01/15/1896 Standing Stone   01/28/1896 County Farm  
BENJAMIN Esquire     85 11/29/1884 Wysox Wysox 09/30/1886 County Farm Son, Orlando O. Benjamin of Towanda
BENJAMIN Harriet       12/22/1884 Herrick   02/20/1886 County Farm  
BENJAMIN Levi     57 12/25/1890 Asylum   09/18/1895 County Farm  
BENJAMIN Warren     53 07/03/1913 Asylum   07/05/1913 County Farm  
BENNETT Jerry       01/26/1884     09/17/1932   Age at admission, where he's from, and location of burial not stated on the list provided. Because it is a list of burials in the Bradford County Manor Cemetery, it is assumed that he is buried in the Manor Cemetery.
BENNETT Sylvester     65 05/06/1881 Burlington   09/13/1890 County Farm  
BENSON Sophia     50 04/21/1881 Springfield   10/06/1890 County Farm  
BERHER Joseph     73 06/09/1936     09/15/1936 County Farm  
BERRY Alpina Alsing   4 11/19/1881 Towanda Boro   04/05/1882 ? burial  
BOWMAN L. W.   37 08/06/1887 Towanda   07/04/1898 ? burial Discharged 12/27/1893.
BOYLE Pat     35 01/01/1888 Towanda   11/22/1889 County Farm  
BRENNEN Tim     70 07/02/1889 Waverly, NY Ireland 12/09/1889 County Farm  
BROOKS Charles H.   28 08/04/1883 Troy Twp   02/03/1884 County Farm  
BUCKLEY Hannah     24 08/24/1889 Troy Ireland 05/27/1891 County Farm  
BUCKLEY John     73 06/17/1885 Towanda Ireland 06/27/1885 County Farm  
BURT Mary E.   46 08/14/1888 Troy   03/09/1890 County Farm  
BUTTON Evard     40 02/06/1882 Towanda Boro   01/18/1884 ? burial  
CARL Mary     22 06/08/1885 Herrick   08/02/1885 County Farm  
CARROLL John     43 08/05/1892 Towanda Ireland 12/18/1892 ? burial  
CEASE John     75 12/22/1883 Canton NY 04/30/1888 County Farm  
CHANDILER Delia     7 days 10/26/1890     11/3/1890 County Farm  
CHANDILER Hariet     35 08/29/1890 Athens   11/18/1890 County Farm  
CHAPEL Samuel     71 04/06/1885 Ridgebury Mass. 04/22/1885 County Farm  
CHAPIN Jason     77 05/08/1886 Smithfield   06/23/1887 County Farm  
CHAPMAN Ransom     64 03/05/1886 Albany   09/11/1893 County Farm  
CHEEVER James     61 03/27/1891 Canton   12/14/1895 County Farm  
CHILSON Archie     14 mo. 05/13/1890 Asylum   09/28/1890 County Farm Son of William and Ardell Chilson
CHILSON Fredie     4 05/13/1890 Asylum   10/04/1890 County Farm Son of William and Ardell Chilson
CHILSON Jarl (Joll)     81 06/12/1888 Towanda Orange County, NY, 1805 11/09/1888 County Farm A penciled note on the compiler's list reads: There were Jehial & Joel. Which is this?
CHILSON Will     65 11/09/1908     07/21/1919 County Farm  
CHILSON William     45 11/20/1895 Towanda   01/29/1900 County Farm  
CLARK John     infant 02/28/1898   County Home, 02/28/1898 02/28/1898 County Farm Born at the County Home, son of Mary Clark
CLARK (unnamed)     infant 07/31/1892   County Home, 07/31/1892 07/31/1892 County Farm Born at the County Home, son of Lottie Clark.
COALMAN James     68 04/08/1891 Towanda   04/21/1891 County Farm  
COALMAN Ruben     75 12/13/1888 Pike Pike Twp 04/14/1893 County Farm  
COEISH Michel     34 05/18/1908 Sayre Austria   ? burial died August 1910. Right foot off at ankle.
COLEMAN Gurshom     34 04/20/1881 Wyalusing   07/07/1881 ? burial see also COALMAN
COLEMAN Margaret   Peggy   04/20/1881 Albany   12/03/1893 County Farm see also COALMAN
COLLINS Patric     75 11/13/1883     12/07/1883 County Farm  
COMEFORT Lucretia     56 03/11/1882       County Farm died August 1893
COMMINGS Harvey     77 11/01/1887 Asylum   03/28/1888 County Farm wife, Emily Commings.
COON David     67 09/16/1887 Sheshequin   03/01/1890 ? burial  
CORNELL Mary     50 08/30/1890 Wilawany, NY   05/27/1895 County Farm  
CORSON Prosper     75 10/26/1923     01/05/1926 County Farm  
CRANDLE Melinda     96 04/21/1881 Springfield   09/28/1882 County Farm  
CRANMER Hannah B.   74 08/31/1887 Towanda Monroe 01/16/1890 County Farm  
CRANMER Sharlot     73 03/04/1890 Rome   06/13/1893 County Farm  
CRAYTON Jane     44 04/21/1881 Smithfield   06/06/1886 County Farm  
DASCOM Chester     infant 10/11/1885   County Home 09/02/1886 County Farm  
DAVENPORT       infant (male) 03/14/1911   County Home 03/14/1911 County Farm son of Isaac and Ella (Stewart) Davenport.
DAVIDSON Annie     60 03/29/1895 Ridgebury   05/29/1895 County Farm  
DAVIS Charley     70 04/17/1917     01/24/1919 County Farm colored
DEAN Grace     infant 07/20/1899   County Home 09/23/1901 County Farm  
DECKER Lewis (Louise?) Ella   64 06/14/1929     08/22/1932 County Farm  
DELANEY Edward     73 05/26/1881 Ridgebury   01/11/1888 County Farm  
DEPEW Eliza     86 05/18/1927     07/06/1928 Wysox Another entry on 05/18/1932: died 11/27/1932, buried at the County Farm
DERR Cora Ann   80 05/29/1929     09/11/1936 County Farm  
DEVINS Lewis     41 09/03/1891 South Waverly, PA Italy 10/15/1892 County Farm  
DEWELL M. E.   69 10/14/1897 Terry   12/16/1900 County Farm  
DICKERSON Francis     72 03/19/1886 Asylum   02/14/1889 County Farm  
DICKINSON Dan     39 05/19/1923     05/16/1928 County Farm  
DONOVAN Michael     53 06/14/1882 Wilmot Ireland 01/01/1895 County Farm  
DOWNS Patrick     35 06/02/1885 Barclay   06/07/1885 County Farm  
DOWNS Susan     73 06/02/1885 Barclay Ireland 11/02/1892 County Farm  
DRAKE Frank     96 04/14/1904     02/17/1920 County Farm  
DURLAND George     71 04/12/1887 Burlington CT 05/20/1887 County Farm  
EDDY Charles E.   69/70 01/23/1918 Wysox   06/13/1919 County Farm  
EDDY John     16 03/08/1882 Albany Albany 11/06/1882 County Farm Related to George W. Eddy of the County Farm
ELIOTT John     87 02/22/1887 Asylum Orange County, NY 12/04/1888 County Farm  
EPLEY Elizabeth     68 08/09/1888 Towanda   01/07/1889 County Farm  
EVANS Lena       04/19/1925     04/19/1925 County Farm  
EVERETT George     72 08/06/1881 Tuscarora   04/24/1888 County Farm  
EVERETT William     76           See EVERETT, William H.
EVERETT William H.   61 04/21/1913 Wyalusing   10/12/1928 County Farm Compiler wrote: 'William -- age 76 (or)'.This is followed by the entry for William H.
FAGAN       infant (female) 02/19/1903   County Home 03/11/1903 County Farm daughter of Bridget Fagan
FARNSWORTH Adelia     68 03/27/1886 Canton NY 07/23/1888 County Farm  
FELLOWS William     55 12/27/1887 Canton Mass. 01/28/1889 County Farm  
FENNER George     35 05/13/1898 Columbia Cross Roads Troy 03/14/1898 County Farm brother of Edward Fenner of Troy
FLEET John     65 06/24/1884 Herrick Wysox 09/04/1890 County Farm  
FLETCHER James     40 07/31/1884   Towanda 10/30/1889 County Farm  
FOGERTY Mathew     76 09/02/1912 Overton Ireland 02/15/1913 ? burial  
FOREST Acey     88 04/21/1881 Smithfield   08/23/1881 ? burial  
FORREST Albert D.   74 03/17/1919     06/23/1919 ? burial  
FRALEY (FARLEY) John     79 04/26/1881 Wilmot Amoanaburg, Europe 05/28/1885 County Farm Relative of Frank John Farley of Lowell, Wyoming County, PA
FRENCH George A.   2 09/16/1889 Canton   12/15/1889 County Farm Died in East Troy
FROST Jacob     85 08/25/1882 Tuscarora   02/15/1883 County Farm  
Gallagher (see Kallegher)                    
GARIS Jacob     87 04/20/1881 Canton   12/31/1883 County Farm  
GARRISON Abbie     73 10/08/1930     06/11/1934 County Farm  
GARRISON Josiah     67 10/08/1930     07/11/1934 County Farm  
GILES John     70 11/04/1881   Stephenson, NY 12/12/1881 ? burial  
GILES John     76 04/19/1881 Standing Stone   03/11/1882 ? burial  
GILL J.     58 10/18/1881 Barclay   02/22/1897 County Farm  
GILLESPIE Edward     45 07/09/1885 Towanda Towanda 05/08/1894 County Farm  
GILLESPIE Luke     97 07/12/1881 Towanda   01/15/1886 County Farm Nearest relative, Edward Gillespie (died at age 102?)
GILLETT Melissa     36 03/22/1886 Troy Ohio 04/10/1900 County Farm Blind
GOULD Charles P.   61 09/21/1894 Herrick   05/19/1895 County Farm  
GRAVES George       09/18/1909 Sayre   09/22/1909 County Farm Mother, Jennie Graves
GREEN Edward     22 05/19/1886 Terry   10/30/1886 County Farm  
GREENFIELD       infant 04/06/1898   County Home 04/08/1898 County Farm born 04/06/1898
GREGORY Fred     41 01/07/1919     09/04/1919 County Farm  
HACKETT John D.   60 08/04/1885 Troy   04/06/1890 County Farm  
HAKES Charles     72 10/23/1886 Albany   03/26/1889 County Farm  
HARIS David     71 04/20/1881 Albany Boro   09/27/1889 County Farm  
HARIS Hannah     60 04/20/1881 Albany Boro   04/27/1882 County Farm  
HART Hiram A.   25 or 58 12/25/1902 Towanda NJ 07/04/1905 ? burial Killed by cars, Elmira
HAWKINS Thomas     73 04/25/1881 North Towanda   03/21/1884 County Farm discharged 07/01/1882 and returned.
HAZEL John     58 05/02/1894 Towanda   05/29/1894 County Farm  
HETZ Edward     60 02/02/1885 Canton Germany 02/04/1885 County Farm  
HICKY Bridget     72 12/08/1898 Athens   02/19/1901 County Farm  
HILL Salome     65 07/25/1919     12/19/1924 County Farm  
HILL Ursula     18 01/27/1887 Burlington   06/23/1890 County Farm resident of Rome
HINBEY Annie     78 10/09/1888 Burlington Burlington 05/27/1891 County Farm  
HINCHMAN Charles     65 04/20/1881 Towanda Boro   03/03/1899 County Farm  
HINES       infant 12/26/1902   County Home 12/26/1902 County Farm born 12/26/1902; mother, Rose Hines
HINES Lewis     55 04/20/1881 Warren   01/25/1887 County Farm  
HOLDSWORTH Anna     infant 08/14/1901   County Home 08/14/1901 County Farm born 08/14/1901
HOOSE Burt     73 08/03/1928     11/11/1933 County Farm  
HOOVER Martin     5 mo. 10/31/1889 Terry   03/26/1890 County Farm  
HOOVER Ruth     infant 02/15/1893   County Home 02/15/1893 County Farm born 02/15/1893
HORNER Lizzie     70 03/02/1889     01/15/1919 County Farm  
HOTCHKISS Dewitt Clinton   65 04/19/1881 Wysox   09/03/1886 County Farm  
HOWARD Ida     14 10/19/1889 Troy   03/14/1890 County Farm  
HOWLAND Charles     65 08/12/1895 Tuscarora   09/30/1895 County Farm relative of Mrs. Charles Howland
HULETT (see also HEWLETT) Thomas G.     05/10/1886   County House 04/13/1886 County Farm Dates of admission and death are as recorded from the record book.
HURLBUT Elizabeth     52 04/21/1881 Columbia   03/15/1897 County Farm by order of Mr. Hurlbut
HURLEY Michal     75 11/19/1930     06/21/1935 County Farm  
JOHNSON Abraham     12 04/14/1881 Rummerfield   07/04/1886 ? burial  
JOHNSON Edward     33 08/13/1896 Towanda   11/25/1896 County Farm  
JOHNSON Ella     infant 06/23/1890   County House 09/16/1890 County Farm  
JOHNSON George     69 10/13/1891 Herrick   03/27/1896 County Farm  
JOHNSON Willey     infant 09/25/1897   County House 10/07/1897 County Farm died at age 12 days. mother, Clarey Johnson
JOHNSON Willey     15 mo. 04/15/1901 Terry Twp   08/13/1901 County Farm mother, Clarey Johnson
JONES Thomas     53 09/19/1881 Towanda Wales 03/22/1882 ? burial  
KALLAGHER Mary Jane   19 10/19/1882 Barclay Barclay 01/31/1893 ? burial  
KENT Ellen     72 12/16/1895 Franklin Franklin Twp 09/02/1898 County Farm  
KERSIRERS Peter Francis   82 08/06/1881 Albany   07/29/1888 County Farm Related to Daniel Everetts of Standing Stone
KINNER John     82 08/19/1923     03/15/1924 ? burial  
KIPP Andrew     80 02/11/1892 Canton   04/10/1892 County Farm  
KITCHEN Clara       02/14/1928     05/19/1928 ? burial  
KITCHEN Elmer     infant 03/03/1928     03/19/1928 ? burial  
KNITES Harvey     85 04/02/1931     06/03/1932 ? burial  
KRUMLOFF Benjamin W.     05/04/1882 Troy   07/12/1882 County Farm Relative of Mrs. Lewis of Troy
LARABY Sarah Jane   ca. 36 04/20/1881 Albany   03/03/1882 County Farm Relative of Jenie Laraby
LATTIMER Sterling     34 09/08/1896 Rummerfield   12/31/1896 County Farm  
LEE Harriet K.   63 12/15/1918     03/30/1919 County Farm  
LEE James       10/18/1881 Warren Asylum (stet)   02/25/1884 County Farm  
LEONARD John     82 12/29/1882 Canton NJ 03/17/1883 ? burial  
LEONARD William F.   1y, 2mo 02/15/1910 Smithfield Smithfield 12/25/1910 County Farm Son of Edith L. Leonard
LEVY Daniel     50 11/26/1895 Wysox Ireland 10/26/1899 County Farm  
LEVY Frank     60 09/08/1885 Springfield   09/10/1885 County Farm  
LEWIS Martha A.   36 01/11/1882 Towanda Boro   06/15/1888 County Farm Father - Lewis Lewis of Troy
LEWIS William     44 06/27/1881 Leroy   02/21/1882 ? burial  
LINCH Michael   see also LYNCH 57 01/17/1882 Barclay Ireland 06/18/1889 County Farm Brother of Thomas Lynch
LINES Morris     46 06/11/1932     02/24/1933 ? burial  
LITZELMAN George     88 10/04/1919     05/08/1920 ? burial  
LOOMIS George     74 04/20/1881 Canton   06/18/1889 County Farm  
LOPER Lucian     62 02/29/1892 Burlington   03/02/1892 County Farm Civil War - Federal govt headstone
LOW Alex       10/29/1881 Towanda     County Farm died Nov 1889. Eloped, returned 11/20/1882. Wife, Sally Low
LUDINGTON Louisa     71 01/05/1892 Troy   12/23/1898 County Farm Son Dell (of Troy)
LUDINGTON Samuel     81 01/05/1892 Troy Sullivan County 01/14/1892 County Farm Son Dell of Troy
LYNCH Michael   see also LINCH 65 12/05/1885 Canton   06/18/1889 County Farm  
LYONS John     57 10/03/1883 Towanda Boston, MA 11/11/1884 ? burial  
Daily Review July 24, 2005
Honoring past and present
By Patrick Abdalla  07/24/2005  WEST BURLINGTON - Instead of making history, he saved it.
In a ceremony celebrating the rank of Eagle Scout being awarded to Towanda's David Huber and dedicating gravestones honoring seven Union soldiers who were buried in an abandoned Bradford County cemetery nearly a century ago, more than 45 people from all over the state paid tribute to the nation's past and present.  Taps drifted out from a bugle and over the County Home Cemetery in West Burlington, where the seven headstones, adorned with American flags and recently placed flowers, reflected the rare rays of sunlight let in by the forest. Huber put 60 hours of work into the project, including bringing in three headstones for the graves of soldiers who had no markers. Philadelphia's Eric Schmincke, the Pennsylvania Department Commander of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, said Huber's work means more than a merit badge. "If it wasn't for this young individual who took this project on, these men would have been lost forever," he said. "If you forget about your past, you might as well forget about your future."
Sons of Union Veterans member Steve Hall helped Huber with the project, which got the graves registered in the group's national database. Hall explained the cemetery was basically used for paupers and was abandoned in the 1930s. He said the cemetery has nearly 300 people in it, and that it is probably just a coincidence that the seven soldiers were buried together.
Douglas Deuel, another Sons member, explained members of the group that came to the cemetery traveled from places such as Scranton, Rochester, Ithaca and Pittsburgh. He said the pull of their heritage moves them to travel the long distances they do for ceremonies that can be shorter than an hour. "We're all descendents of Civil War veterans and we're honoring their sacrifice," he said.
Huber, who will be attending Ithaca College, said he was impressed the people traveled from so far to see the work he had done. He explained he first joined Scouts in seventh grade. Schmincke said finding the graves and repairing them is a noble way to honor a tumultuous time in the country's history. "It's good to find them again," he said. "And not just for the historical value. It's that you can pay tribute to them and now you can't forget about them."

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By Joyce M. Tice
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