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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Second Street Cemetery, Elmira,
Chemung County NY
Obituaries
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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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| Reading a series of obituaries from a
single cemetery, as they are presented here, is like reading the
multi-generational history of a community. These people were the local
populace at a particular time. The people buried here knew each other,
were neighbors, relatives and school mates. They attended church
together and engaged in "trade" or business.
All people are listed in alphabetic order by surname at BIRTH.
Women identified by a married alias only and for whom a birth surname
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Street Cemetery Obituaries |
The following article is probably from the 1960s.
A CEMETERY THAT BECAME A PLAYGROUND
All-around neglect, coupled with vandalism of the sort that should
be punishable with the lash, is turning the Second St. Cemetery into
one of Elmira’s more spectacular eyesores. There is a picture here of uncut
grass and overturned headstones which shows, in a small way, what is going
on in the block bounded by Second and Third Sts. And Columbia St. and College
Ave. It has been many years since there has been a burial in this now-neglected
plot. That shouldn’t make any difference. It shouldn’t excuse the liberties
that have been taken with many of the headstones.
It shouldn’t excuse the fact that the place lies neglected while the
city that these people helped to build strains at is boundaries and changes
its characteristics so often that it’s a fulltime job to keep a zoning
map up to date. And neither should this plot be turned into a shortcut
for pedestrians and bicyclists. Some years ago it was proposed to move
the bones and the stones from this cemetery out of the playground category
and utilize the plot as a central fire station. The screeches this suggestion
evoked are still echoing among the hills. Such a thing, it was said, would
be desecration, rank and unashamed. Today, the old cemetery offers a spectacle
of overturned markers. It is a playground and a thoroughfare by day and
a necking spot by night. And yet, the plight of this spot, ostensibly sacred
to the memory of those who have gone before and who weren’t far-sighted
enough to demand burial under less carnival conditions, goes unmourned
day after day, week after week. This is not a plug for somebody’s plan
to build an apartment project or a housing project, garden type or otherwise.
It is not intended to hasten the day when a fire station, a hotel, a bowling
alley, a shooting gallery, a union railroad station or a flock of store
of the suburban type, the neighborhood type or the garden type rise upon
the spot.
It is simply a plea that something be done, both about the appearance
of the place and the people who desecrate it. And of the two, by far the
more important is action against the vandals who range at will through
this block area, upsetting the stone, breaking them and trampling upon
the graves of their betters. Something can be done. Unless we have lost
completely our sense of respect., let’s do it.
BROUSE, Mary Jane (Mrs. A.B. Dickinson)
DICKINSON--In this city, Sunday, Sept. 5th, Mary Jane, wife of A.B.
Dickinson, aged 48 years and 6 months.---Notice of funeral hereafter.
Williamsport papers please copy.Elmira Daily Advertiser, September
6, 1880 Monday A.M., page 5
BROUSE, Mary Jane Dickinson
Formal announcement was made yesterday of the death of Mrs. A.B. Dickinson.
Her maiden name was Mary Jane Brouse, and she was born at Wallace Run,
Lycoming County, Pa., and was forty-eight years of age. She was married
to Mr. A.B. Dickinson, brother of Mr. H.B. Dickinson, of this city, in
1862, at Muncy. They lived in Williamsport a long time and came to
Elmira in 1870. She leaves, beside her husband, a daughter and two
sons, who sincerely mourn the loss of the beloved wife and mother.
The funeral will occur this afternoon from No. 421 West Fourth street to
the Second Street Cemetery. She was a member of the First Baptist
Church and highly respected. Her illness had been for nearly a year,
and she was a great sufferer. (Elmira Daily Advertiser, Tuesday AM, 9/7/1880,
page 5.)
CULP – Ralandus Culp aged 85, died at his home in Springfield
Township on Friday, December 3, 1909. Mr. Culp was born in Elmira, November
27, 1824 and lived for 49 years on the farm where he died. His wife, to
whom he was married sixty-one years ago, died several years since. Five
children survive: Joseph of Elmira, Thompson of Wellsburg and George, Emma
and Jennie at home. One son, Grant died a short time ago. Mr. Culp was
very highly respected in the community here he lived and his death will
be mourned by a large circle of friends. Funeral services were held from
the home on Monday, the Rev Barrett officiating.
[Note- wife Mary J. Mahood]
TOOKER Hyman Smith
Hyman Smith Tooker, aged 79 died at the home 216 West Third St., last
evening at 9 o’clock. He is survived by his wife, one son Allen F. Tooker
of Rochester and one daughter Mrs. Alonzo Zimmer of Rochester. The body
was taken to Harrington’s undertaking rooms, where the funeral will be
held Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the Rev. Eli Pittman officiating. The
interment will be in the Second Street Cemetery. Elmira Gazette
April 20, 1907
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