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Grove Cemetery (A-Be)
Located on corner of Cemetery Road and Falls Road,Trumansburg, NY Town of Ulysses, Tompkins County, NY. Cemetery is active. Map (Off-site from Google) This record is as complete as possible at this time, with updates through 2007. Find out more about the Grove Cemetery Cannon	(Photo by Janet M. Nash - 2006) View Larger Photo
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In Memory of Andy Scott

Who passed away on December 29th, 2000. Andy was the caretaker of the Grove Cemetery from 1983-2000. Andy's 18 years of devotion to the cemetery really showed. He took pride in how the cemetery not only looked, but in preserving the records of the Cemetery. Andy and his wife Ruth spent many months transcribing all the burial records of the cemetery to share with the Tompkins Co., NYGenWeb site. In doing so, they have helped preserve the history of burials within this very large cemetery. We are so grateful to Andy and his wife, Ruth, and would like to dedicate these records in Memory of Andy.

Andy retired in 1985 from the N.Y.S. Dept of Transportation after 31 years and previous to that he was in the Army and served in the Korean Conflict.

The caretaker to get in touch with now is:
Grove Cemetery
c/o John Wertis
8144 Searsburg Road
Trumansburg, N.Y., 14886
tel. # is 607-387-4331
email address: bwwfarmtoday@aol.com

The present updates and all future updates are generously provided by the Grove Cemetery Association. Thank you for recording and keeping the records so well, and for allowing them to be published on the Tompkins County, NYGenWeb.

A special thank you also goes to Andrew & Ruth Scott who transcribed these records from the original records.
Thank you.

Thank you Janet Nash for your help on updating these records.
Thank you Kem Hart for your help on transcribing these records into digital format.
Thank you Carl Hommel for transcribing these records into digital format.

Updates to burials for late 1998 through Dec. 2000 were supplied by John Wertis, assisted by Mrs. Marian Pritchard.
Thank you John Wertis and Mrs. Marian Pritchard for updating these records.

The cemetery story below was borrowed from: A History of Trumansburg, New York, 1792-1967 by Lydia Sears, pages 35-36
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The cemetery, on Main Street east of the present Methodist Church was Presbyterian though all sects used it. In 1847, the Presbyterian Congregation purchased a tract of land comprising part of the present Grove Cemetery which it maintained until 1854 when a non-sectarian association was formed.

The moving of the gravestones from the Old cemetery was not carried out very carefully or thoroughly and the process continued over a number of years. Many of the original stones may be found in the northern section of Grove Cemetery in a little visited area.

The first burying ground was somewhere in the present area of Mrs. W.P. Biggs home. Its existence had been forgotten for many years until Dr. John M. Farrington, who had heard of it from Col. Camp, investigated in September 1876. He wrote, "Time and neglect have allowed the stones to fall over and they were densely covered with weeds and grass. Three only were standing. Their inscriptions were as follows:

Dec'd 1810 Age XIX Oct. 18
Mary Hinkley
 
In Memory of Elizabeth Scott
Wife of Benjamin Scott
Who departed this Life July the 18th 1817
Aged 64 yrs, 3 months, and six days
 
Mrs. Abby, wife of John Kingsbury
Died Augt 23d 1813

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