Bitley Cemetery Cemetery

Also known as the Branchport Cemetery in older obituaries

Branchport, Jerusalem, Yates Co., NY

ACTIVE CEMETERY

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A. **   The funeral of Charles Goff, who was drowned in thelake while skating last week and whose body was recovered late Friday afternoonlast, was held from the undertaking rooms of B. F Look, Sunday afternoon, Rev.K . F . Richardson officiating. Interment in the Bitley cemetery. In the sad and tragic deathof the young man, occurring as it did among strangers, and whose relatives werefar removed from this locality, and were unable in a pecuniary way to providefor the last sad rites of their son and brother, the town gave a response thatmade those who witnessed it think the world was growing better instead of worse.

B.** The Telegram - Feb 17, 1907 -  Many Homes in That Region Saddened By Death of Some Loved Member - Penn Yan, NY   Feb16. - 

A motion will be made to have the Yates county treasury assume the expense of the burial of the young man, known as Charles Foster, who was drowned while skating on Lake Keuka last week and whose funeral was conducted at the expense of a number of charitable citizens of Branchport. It now transpires that the name of the young man was really Charles Goff.  His mother and three sisters live in RI, but they wrote that they were too poor to take charge of the remains, or to come to the funeral.

C.** 7/12/1978 Webster Herald News Item - Travelers' checks were invented by Robert Herries to take the place of letters of credit. The original checks could only be used on a pre-planned route where they were expected. 

D.   PY Demo paper - Friday, July 6, 1923 - Branchport - Mrs. Helen Hibbard and son, Casper, spend over the weekend with Mrs. Eva Mace.  Mrs. Mace recently sold her home to Guy Davis.

E. ** James Thomas 1920 Census lists: James 59y; Orpha 56y;  Fred B. 34y; Lee J. 32y; Eveline 6y ; Gladys 16y; Florence, 22y; Lena? 5y & Louise, 2y,2m  [5 dau, 2 sons all listed as single] [research further; younger ones perhaps grandkids?]  

F. **   TOMER,WILLIAM A. - Age, 18 years. Enlisted, August 18, 1861, at Branchport; mustered in as corporal, Co. A , September 16, 1861, to serve three years; reduced, date not stated; mustered out, September 20, 1864, at Elmira, N. Y . ,as Albert Tomer.

G. http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/civil/rosters/rosters.htm 

HIBBARD, HIRAM -Age, 22 years. Enlisted, January 19, 1864, at Jerusalem; mustered in as private, Co. A, January 26, 1864, to serve three years; mustered out with company, June 13, 1865, at Fort Barry, VA; veteran

H.  TYLER, PHINEAS -Age, 28 years. Enlisted, August 1, 1862, at Jerusalem, to serve three years; mustered in as private, Co. A, August 23, 1862; surrendered, September 15, 1862, and paroled, September 16,1862, at Harper's Ferry, Va.; promoted corporal, May 1, 1863; sergeant, February 29, 1864; wounded in action, May 6, 1861, at the Wilderness, Va.; discharged for wounds, December23, 1861, at Broad Street Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa.

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