Scott Andersen and his wife, Venus, have wrapped up their clean-up work for this visit at the Dean Cemetery on Thursday, September 22, due to rain at the cemetery on Friday.
He sent more photographs, including one of himself and Venus, while they were at the Dean Cemetery.
I thought it would be nice to share these photographs and some of Scott's comments.
He sent more photographs, including one of himself and Venus, while they were at the Dean Cemetery.
I thought it would be nice to share these photographs and some of Scott's comments.
September 20, 2011 - Scott Andersen kneeling by broken pieces of stone markers. (See last three photographs for more about these stones.)
September 22, 2011 - Venus Andersen brushing off a broken gravestone
Leaning gravestone for James H. Dean
Broken partial gravestone for John Milton, son of Daniel and Sarah who, per Scott, could actually be John Milton Robbins.
Full inscription: Died September 22, 1840, in his 10 year of age.
Per Scott, the initials "R P" are inscribed on this tall stone marker of undetermined purpose.
Per Scott, the initials "P C" are inscribed on this tall stone marker. He thought it could stand for "Presbyterian Church." He says: "This cemetery is the site of the original Presbyterian Church of South Salem."
Wrap-Up Remarks from Scott:
"I spent my last morning at the cemetery trying to document as much as I could.
I numbered all of the stones we had found, and tried to take as many pictures as possible.
It was so wet, I don't know how well they really came out.
I drew a little map of the cemetery, and will clean it up, and make it into something presentable when I get home.
There are so many stones out there! You find them lying half buried as you cut along.
As far as finding "all" of the stones in the cemetery, I think that we have really just scratched the surface."
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Thank you Scott for sharing your photographs and interesting details about your work at the Dean/Old Dean Presbyterian Cemetery.
Until your recent visits and now 2011 clean-up work at this remote burial ground, it had been neglected and forgotten; but thankfully no more!
