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Name of Cemetery: Meritt - Buckbee
Burial Ground
Farmington Township Read By: Madeline B. Smith & Linda C. Reese Date Read: Oct. 2007. Typed By: Pat Smith Raymond Location: Croft Hollow Road, Farmington Twp, Tioga Co., PA Other Comments: We have been told that some stones were removed and used in a sidewalk. The house has burned and ground has been bulldozed - We looked but found nothing. Quite a few graves are marked by fieldstones Photo by Joyce M. Tice 21 OCT 2007 |
| Last Name | First Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death | Age | Inscription/Relationship/Comments |
| Buckbee | Hannah | 1/22/1854 | 73y6m5d | w/o Samuel | |
| Buckbee | S. P. | 1/10/1855 | 47y2m9d | ||
| Merit | Annis | 4/23/1841 | 2y6m25d | d/o Hiram & Mary A. | |
| Merit | Anson | 4/20/1841 | 2y6m22d | s/o Hiram & Mary A. | |
| Merit | Sally M. | 4/1/1845 | 4y7m24d | d/o Hiram & Mary A. | |
| Merit | George | 3/22/1848 | 1y11m | s/o Hiram & Mary A. |
Meritt - Buckbee Burial Ground (2)
This is a separate burial ground from the one above and no remnants can
be found.
Located on Croft Hollow Road, Farmington Twp., Tioga Co., PA
This Cemetery was recorded by Rev. Victor C. Detty in 1944. At this time we have not located it. The Church was torn down long ago, so this makes it harder to determine the location of this Cemetery. This would be the M.E. Church.
This is what Rev. Detty wrote – A child of Josiah H. and Mary Ann Merritt Foster is buried in the old and abandoned cemetery located in a pasture about 100 yards North the Farmington Methodist Church. The marble stone, found lying flat, has this inscription – “Jane Maria, daughter of Josiah and Mary Ann Foster, died Sept. 15, 1852, aged 4 years and 17 days”. This land, now owned by Fred Ackert, was once possessed by Hiram Merritt, four of whose children’s names are on stones found there. Hiram Merritt married Mary Ann Foster, according to their niece, Mary Merritt Hall of Osceola, PA.
The inscriptions on the stones are: Sarah, daughter of Hiram & Mary Merit, died July 10, 1852, ae 4y-10m-12d; Mary Ann, daughter of Hiram and Mary A. Merit, died June 23, 1856, ae 1y-7m-23d; Charles, son of H. & M.A. Meritt, died July 31, 1864, aged 22y-3m-11d.
In addition to these four inscriptions there are two others on marble stones: Temperance E., wife of T.T. Mann, died Sept. 5, 1858, age 40 y-5m-7d; (Stone broken), only daughrer of Henry and Mary E. Hall, died May 1, 1852, aged 7y-10m-16d. Rhodes Hall had a brother Henry C.
Note from Joyce: Both Meritt and Merit as well as Merritt, are common spellings of this name.
Published on Tri-Counties 14 JAN 2008
