Joe Harline took David Harline, Julie Clark, and James Clark for a drive into Willard along old highway 89. Just on the edge of that town is an acre of green cemetery with the grave of our ancestor, Elizabeth Briggs Welch.
According to the new.familysearch.org the line is as follows: Elizabeth Briggs, 1798-1867 (married Nicholas Welch II), parents of Ann Welch, 1826-1904 (married Robert Crookston) parents of Robert Crookston, 1855-1928 (married Rosabell Pitkin) , parent of Byron Frank Crookston, 1893-1976. i don't think the birth year on the grave marker is correct. My mother told me that the person buried in the cemetery was a distant relative. Until I saw the family pedigree chart I had no idea that the relative is our direct ancestor. I will always look at the cemetery and grave with a lot more personal interest.
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This cemetery was in the news recently because a neighbor two lots east of the cemetery dug a water, sewer trench along the south edge of the cemetery and half way in front, along the west. He did not get proper permits and it was feared that some of the old graves could have been disturbed. Wen we were there, two days later, the trench was filled in and two large piles of gravel were stacked on the road shoulder.
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