White Family Cemetery Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania
White Family Cemetery
Wattsburg, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Date: April 30, 2001
Cemetery: White Family Cemetery
Established: 1840
Street: Arbuckle Road (Used to be an old road that passed beside the cemetery-now gone.)
City: Wattsburg-About five miles
Township: Amity
County: Erie
State: PA
Nation: USA
Zip: 16438
Nearby: Arbuckle Road and Burlingame Road
Reached by: Crossing property-private
Location: Rural-woods
Land: Hillside
Water: No
Features: In a grove of trees off a tractor path
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: four
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: No
Buried gravestones: Unsure
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: No
Pollution problems: No
Oldest grave: 1844
Newest grave: 1851
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Tina L. Curtis-1999
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: None
Vegetation4:
Drainage: Good
Problem: Restricted access:
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Woods
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Contacted: Wattsburg Area Historical Society
Other Information
This cemetery contains a mother, father, and two children. The father, who died last, left six more children and a second wife. The land was sold immediately following his death due to debts. This is probably why there were no more burials in it as it was for family only. There is no headstone for the mother, only a footstone that has her initials. The daughter, Lucille, aged five months has a unique emblem engraved on her stone. The engraving is of a double circle with a six petaled flower inside.
Submitted By:
name: Tina Curtis
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Update
Established: 1840s. Only Four burials: Husband, wife, son, daughter. Records available: Yes. Records by Tina Curtis 1998 & Thomas H. Hutzelman of ERie, PA in July 1981