All,
Today was our first day this fall to really do some exploring to search out or narrow down pieces of history that Al, Jessica, and I have an interest in. Recently, I learned that there was a cemetery at Tylertown that even in the 1860s was called the "Old Graveyard." I have acquired two descriptions on record with the state of a single tract of land at Tylertown where this grave is/was located, one being a more modern description from 1879 and the other much older.
After reading this information I first consulted "Heart of the Pines" to see what John Pearce says about Tylertown. On page 167 he writes:
Though the old township records list it as both Tylertown and Tyler Town, no family by the name of Tyler is known to have lived there at an early date. There was a Samuel Tyler, twenty-five years of age, living in the township when the 1850 census was taken, along with his wife, Sarah (23), and his two daughters, Emily (3) and Alwilda (1), but there is no way to prove just where he lived, and the name certainly predates him. Budd Wilson, Jr. of Green Bank says that the name did supposedly come from a Samuel Tyler, but if so, it must have been Samuel's father.
The township birth records for 1848-1877 list the first birth for Tylertown as that of Lavinia Ford, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ford, on June 10, 1848, followed on September 9th of the same year by the birth of Hannah Ford, daughter of Reuben and Birtha [sic].
The information I have predates all of this, and we now know that this particular tract of land in 1793 was owned by Abraham Tyler, Jr. who sold the property to Stephen Ford on 9/4/1793. After Fords death his estate sold it to Isaac H Brown who sold it to Augustus E, Koster on 2/15/1879. I also have conflicting information saying it was awarded to Jeremiah Ford, Sr., Jeremiah Ford, Jr., and Samuel Crowley by Elias Wright who was Wharton's surveyor.
In any event, the information gives a very detailed description on where the cemetery was/is located from a particular stake on the corner of the property. Fortunately, the state surveyed the corner when Wharton was purchased and Al, Jessica, and I were able to find that today.
The description from that monument which then was a wooden stake is as follows.
Is and should be a stake standing in a corner S71°W 6 chains and 16 links from an old pine stump standing in the middle of a small pond on the south and east edge of an old clearing at Tylertown, said pond lying in a course of nearly 82°E 9 chains from an old graveyard.
So Al and I did some calculating separately and we both came within 30 feet of each other for the location of the graveyard. Obviously, we did not expect to find anything there and that was the end result. However, we did some exploring and maybe narrowed down where the pond is located and will spend some time in the next few months there again when the vegetation is gone.
Next, we decided to look for the stone corners of this property right near Mount.
This property was owned at one time by Nicholos Sooy who sold it to Noah Sooy. When the state purchased Wharton this tract was owned by the estate of Masel Gager of Medford. I am assuming the state was in the process of purchasing the property because they did not survey it. They must have felt there was no need to since once they acquired the landlocked property what would be the point of surveying it. They did know the approximate location and that it what you see on the map above.
So our agenda today was to find the stones on the corners. The northern portions is actually a stone hill which Al I believe correctly concluded that the one large cellar hole looking area was one of the many locations where property stones were acquired. Someone in the past spent quite a bit of time digging up the stones provided by nature there. The southern portion is unlike that, so we headed to where we felt the stones may be and came up empty. Frustrated, we headed north and about 200 feet from where we were looking I looked down and found the corner stone. Pure luck that we headed to this location and I looked down.
The corner stone with an adjacent property stone which is quite common.
Indian Pipe found along the way.
Then we headed to the Tulpehocken to do Al's 360. I took video of him making it which I will have later. On our way out we stumbled on some Pine Barren Gentian
Guy
Today was our first day this fall to really do some exploring to search out or narrow down pieces of history that Al, Jessica, and I have an interest in. Recently, I learned that there was a cemetery at Tylertown that even in the 1860s was called the "Old Graveyard." I have acquired two descriptions on record with the state of a single tract of land at Tylertown where this grave is/was located, one being a more modern description from 1879 and the other much older.
After reading this information I first consulted "Heart of the Pines" to see what John Pearce says about Tylertown. On page 167 he writes:
Though the old township records list it as both Tylertown and Tyler Town, no family by the name of Tyler is known to have lived there at an early date. There was a Samuel Tyler, twenty-five years of age, living in the township when the 1850 census was taken, along with his wife, Sarah (23), and his two daughters, Emily (3) and Alwilda (1), but there is no way to prove just where he lived, and the name certainly predates him. Budd Wilson, Jr. of Green Bank says that the name did supposedly come from a Samuel Tyler, but if so, it must have been Samuel's father.
The township birth records for 1848-1877 list the first birth for Tylertown as that of Lavinia Ford, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ford, on June 10, 1848, followed on September 9th of the same year by the birth of Hannah Ford, daughter of Reuben and Birtha [sic].
The information I have predates all of this, and we now know that this particular tract of land in 1793 was owned by Abraham Tyler, Jr. who sold the property to Stephen Ford on 9/4/1793. After Fords death his estate sold it to Isaac H Brown who sold it to Augustus E, Koster on 2/15/1879. I also have conflicting information saying it was awarded to Jeremiah Ford, Sr., Jeremiah Ford, Jr., and Samuel Crowley by Elias Wright who was Wharton's surveyor.
In any event, the information gives a very detailed description on where the cemetery was/is located from a particular stake on the corner of the property. Fortunately, the state surveyed the corner when Wharton was purchased and Al, Jessica, and I were able to find that today.
The description from that monument which then was a wooden stake is as follows.
Is and should be a stake standing in a corner S71°W 6 chains and 16 links from an old pine stump standing in the middle of a small pond on the south and east edge of an old clearing at Tylertown, said pond lying in a course of nearly 82°E 9 chains from an old graveyard.
So Al and I did some calculating separately and we both came within 30 feet of each other for the location of the graveyard. Obviously, we did not expect to find anything there and that was the end result. However, we did some exploring and maybe narrowed down where the pond is located and will spend some time in the next few months there again when the vegetation is gone.
Next, we decided to look for the stone corners of this property right near Mount.
This property was owned at one time by Nicholos Sooy who sold it to Noah Sooy. When the state purchased Wharton this tract was owned by the estate of Masel Gager of Medford. I am assuming the state was in the process of purchasing the property because they did not survey it. They must have felt there was no need to since once they acquired the landlocked property what would be the point of surveying it. They did know the approximate location and that it what you see on the map above.
So our agenda today was to find the stones on the corners. The northern portions is actually a stone hill which Al I believe correctly concluded that the one large cellar hole looking area was one of the many locations where property stones were acquired. Someone in the past spent quite a bit of time digging up the stones provided by nature there. The southern portion is unlike that, so we headed to where we felt the stones may be and came up empty. Frustrated, we headed north and about 200 feet from where we were looking I looked down and found the corner stone. Pure luck that we headed to this location and I looked down.
The corner stone with an adjacent property stone which is quite common.
Indian Pipe found along the way.
Then we headed to the Tulpehocken to do Al's 360. I took video of him making it which I will have later. On our way out we stumbled on some Pine Barren Gentian
Guy
