My father spent a lot of time visiting, restoring and documenting small cemeteries in Central New Jersey.
He was trustee of the Somerset County Historical Society for several decades. He copied the information from these small cemeteries into a record book, to assist those searching their family history. He loved helping these searches, even though he was the son of Eastern European immigrants, and could never go back far in his own family history in this country. He was also the historian of Bridgewater Township, NJ. His only power was the naming of newly created streets. His proudest act was naming the connector between the Post Office and Country Library on one end and the new Mall at the other. He designated it as Prince Rodgers Boulevard. Most assumed Prince Rogers was a relative of George III. In fact, he was the earliest Afrrican American resident of the township, a fact my father discovered by restoring a small private cemetery he found in the woods along the new road's right-of-way. Prince was his first name. Mr Rogers was a runaway slave who came north and was the earliest documented (by my father's restoration of his tombstone) resident of the small African American residential community that was mostly displaced by the new mall and its approaches. My father taught me the importance of remembering people like Prince Rodgers, as well as the Dutch who were the original European immigrants to this area. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:10 PM Dale H. Cook <radiot...@plymouthcolony.net> wrote: > I have photographed many small cemeteries in Massachusetts, where most > of my ancestors lived. I haven't been back there since I bought the > K-70, so this 2004 example was taken with my 3.3 megapixel Sony Cybershot. > > Elijah Copeland Cemetery, Easton, MA > https://plymouthcolony.net/easton/images/elijahcopeland.jpg > > I am waiting for my brother to finish with his slide and film scanner. > When I get it I can post my earliest graveyard photo, taken with a > Hanimex Praktika around 1970. > -- > Dale H. Cook, Pentax K-70, smc Pentax-DA 18-270mm, > smc Pentax-D FA Macro 100mm, Rokinon 650Z 650-1300mm > https://plymouthcolony.net/photos/index.html > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
