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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Madison Cemetery, Tuscarora 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 Carol HOOSE Brotzman
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The following description of the Madison Cemetery is part of a book
regarding the Beaver Meadows Church, “Beaver Meadows, the Church and Its
People” which is being compiled by Carol Brotzman, the elected church historian.
The earliest members of this church signed the Tuscarora Rush Religious
Compact. For further information regarding the Tuscarora Rush Religious
Compact check out the Beaver Meadows Church History under Tuscarora Township,
Bradford County on this site.
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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.
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MADISON/MATTISON CEMETERY
BOARD ROAD, T506, TUSCARORA TOWNSHIP
BRADFORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA
This cemetery is located along the roadside on the present Dale G and
Donna Tewksbury Bennett property. The cemetery is located in a cultivated
field with no barriers. There is only one headstone, with two small
markers denoting MOTHER and AJM. Local children, and nieces and nephews
of Marion Bennett (Dales father) remember while growing up in that area
in the 1930’s that there were more headstones, maybe as many as 12 or more
that they used to play amongst. In an interview with Kay Ervine in 1998
she recalls going up there as a child with Margene Bennett Nittenger. She
recalls there were at least four larger stones. There are rumors as to
what happened to the stones and where they are now, however I refuse to
speculate
on unsubstantiated facts until proven.
Donna Bennett tells me folks have visited the grave from either Maryland
or Virginia.
The one-headstone records:
ABBIE JANE MAGEE
Wife of DANIEL
Died February 23, 1880 age 31 years 8 months 16 days
This calculates that she was born June 7, 1849
Additional stones record MOTHER and AJM (Abbie’s initials)
From the 1850 Tuscarora Township census we find (Abigail) Abbie Jane
was born in Pennsylvania about 1848, the daughter of Reuben and Sarah Madison/Mattison
who came from Rhode Island. Her mother Sarah must have died before October
24, 1868, as that was the date her father Reuben Madison married Cynthia
Hardy Culver for his second wife. She was the widow of Adolphus Culver
who had died in the CIVIL WAR. Reuben Madison signed the Tuscarora
Rush Religious Compact. From the 1880 Tuscarora Township census we find
the widower Daniel H MaGee who was born in 1846 residing with
his two children Lucy and Frederick, and his widowed mother Lucy Roots
McGee. His parents Ebenezer and Lucy Roots McGee used the spelling “McGee”.
This MaGee/McGee connection connects this family to the Clapper, Whitney
and the Smith families of Beaver Meadows. All are prominent church
families of Beaver Meadows. There are other connections to the folks here
at Beaver Meadows, which will be revealed in the “Beaver Meadows, The Church
and its People”.
Maybe Reuben’s first wife Sarah is buried there, and could be represented
by the MOTHER stone? Why is it called the Madison cemetery instead of the
MaGee Cemetery if Abbie was the first burial? We just do not know.
So many unanswered questions?
We do not know where Ebenezer McGee’s wife Lucy Roots McGee is buried
either! Her husband has a headstone in the Gage Road Cemetery, Rush
Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, she doesn’t. Lucy was living
here in Tuscarora Township in 1800. It is a possibility.
Eb and Lucy had another child named Theodore MaGee (note the spelling
change). He married but separated from his wife Hulda Jane Lewis.
Hulda married second to William Whitney on February 4, 1873. It is not
known what ever became of Theodore. No divorce papers have been found either!
Could he possibly be here in the Madison Cemetery?
I have a note in my personal records obtained from a newspaper clipping
belonging to Marie Woodruff VanDeMark that possibly Jeapon and Jane Mowry
Madison could be buried there. They died as young adults in 1882. Again,
I have no proof. Just speculation!
There are endless possibilities of other burials here in this cemetery
with the missing headstones, and many more major connections to families
at Beaver Meadows!
If anyone has information as to the missing stones and names of other
people buried in this cemetery, please share so these good folks can be
remember the way they should be! If more information on the Madison/MaGee/McGee
families is desired contact Carol Brotzman, Beaver Meadows Church Historian,
carolbrotzman@hotmail.com
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 09/06/2001
By Joyce M. Tice
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