Today I visited Beach Cemetery.
It's an interesting cemetery since there are only a few stones still standing but there are a bunch of names carved onto this giant rock in the center. The sidewalk shown above is right along the road, but it's a residential area so the speed limit is slow.
"Cheer up, we are near the Land of Promise. See that light ahead, that is the Land of Promise."
We "came up to our new place, where we have lived ever since,
the recipients of manifold blessings, temporal and spiritual."
~ SVR Trowbridge to his wife up arrival in the Troy area.
You can read all the names on the Find A Grave link above.
There's also a lot of history included in the individual memorials.
I don't know if the stones were vandalized or what.
But there are several bases.
Edward W Parks
Aug 17, 1825 - Jan 21, 1866
Engr US Navy in Civil War
Fanny M.
his wife
Nov 18, 1828 - Nov 5, 1898
Top is broken off
Robert Parks
died - June 29, 1864
aged 88 years
Polly
wife of Robert Parks
died - June 30, 1844
aged 63 years
Elizabeth
wife of Robert Parks
died - Sept 10, 1852
aged 68 years
Black walnuts on the ground
Skidmore
James Skidmore
born - March 9, 1798
died - Nov 23, 1886
Philinda, his wife
born - Dec 3, 1800
died - March 22, 1873
Stephen Van Rensselaer Trowbridge
died - March 1, 1859
aged 64y 8m
born - July 4, 1794
Elizabeth Conkling
wife of SVR Trowbridge
died - Nov 29, 1873
aged - 76y 6m 7d
The Trowbridges
In memoriam
George B Martin
1853 - 1933
and his wife
Frances J. Gillett
1856 - 1938
Charles C. Beach
born - Feb 16, 1844
died - Aug 8, 1858
Reuben C. Beach
born - Nov 29, 1782
died - Dec 23, 1863
aged - 69y 2m 29d
Marietta A. Davis
wife of R.C. Beach
born - Nov 9, 1804
died - June 17, 1890
Jacob Gillett
born into the Spirit World
Feb 7, 1858
aged 73 years
looking to the left of the gate
looking straight in from the gate
looking to the right of the gate
Some critter fur, likely a deer that didn't quite make the jump.
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