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a small grave stone
Millford Farm - Midway
Patsey
Wife of
Robert Secrey
Died
Aug 19, 1819
aged 28 yrs
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Last spring, Blythe Jamieson's imagination was captured by an overgrown cemetery with a tumbled-down stone wall. The old cemetery, on Mary and Bob West's Millford Farm, has a single gravestone.
Mary and Bob joined Blythe's efforts to restore the cemetery. Through Midway Renaissance, they put out a call for volunteers to help with clean-up and research. Members of the Greenspace Committee, Midway Living History Committee, and local history buffs worked on several weekends to clean the small family plot. Over the summer the Wests invested in having the beautiful dry stone wall surrounding the cemetery restored.
Blythe explored census records and deeds, and Renaissance put out a call to the community to discover any information about the family of the young woman buried under the cemetery's lone gravestone, but no history has been found.
Blythe invited the community to a gathering at the cemetery on Friday August 19, the 162nd anniversary of Patsey's death - a celebration of the restoration progress and another call for any information to solve the mystery of this small family burial ground. |
Blythe Jamieson & Rich Schein
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Jo Fisher, Bill Penn, Mildred Martin, Leslie Penn, Adeline McDaniel, Dr. Fisher
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Helen Rentch, Jo Fisher
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Helen Rentch, Jo Fisher, Dr. Fisher, Adeline McDaniel, Bill Penn
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Manuel Davis, Marcella Long, Brenda Jackson, Jim McDaniel
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Rich Schein, Blythe Jamieson
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Mildred Martin, Bill Penn |
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Thanks to Randy Thomas, president of Midway Renaissance,
for documenting the day in photographs. |
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