PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Delaware County Institute of Science 



Volume VIII Number i 



ARCHIVES OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 



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COMPILED BY EDWARD V. AND MARGARET S. STREEPER. ••TANICi 



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II. 



BURIAL RECORDS OF THE vSANDY BANK BURYING GROUND.* 



Leaving the Providence Meeting Burying Ground and 

 wending one's way northwestwardly along the Providence 

 Road, you pass on the left the old "Sandy Bank Burying 

 Ground," or Upper (or older) Ground. Many burials have 

 taken place in days agone, but the graves and stones were in 

 such a dilapidated condition when these records were obtained 

 that it was next to impossible to tell what the inscriptions 

 were in many cases ; while other stones were badly broken 

 and only partly decipherable. There are also a number of 

 graves marked only by rough sandstone monuments. In a 

 number of cases, graves have been opened by descendants or 

 relatives of the deceased, and the bodies have been removed 

 and reinterred in other burying grounds, and where these 

 removals are known mention will be made in a later article. 



It is said that on many occasions the bodies of old soldiers 

 of the War of 1861-65 have been interred here, but there are 

 no markers to verify same. 



* Since these notes were obtained nearly every stone in the burying 

 ground has been more or less damaged, and in some cases the informa- 

 tion contained herein is the only known record in existence. — E. V. S. 



