The Mystery of Bill Dean's Cemetery Database

Bill Dean, former Town Historian for Galen, compiled a list of over 30,000 persons identified by number, many of whom are buried in Galen and surrounding towns; others are spouses or parents who were buried elsewhere or were alive at the time the records were compiled, and also indicated by number.

He assigned cemeteries by number where location was known, but he left no key or code whatsoever to identify these cemeteries. We have been able to identify many of them, but many others, particularly the smaller cemeteries, remain to be identified.

I have worked on the cemetery records compiled by Bill Dean and converted all those identifiable for the Town of Rose only to a simpler format. Records for the remaining townships in the Dean file (Galen, Savannah, Butler) have not been converted. All are available to look at in the Clyde-Savannah Library in Clyde N.Y.

Please review the list, noting the more common surnames among the deceased. If you can identify the cemetery or its location, contact Frank Dennis fgdennis@msu.edu, coordinator for the Town of Rose.

Frank Dennis,
Editor, Town of Rose
September 2000

List of cemeteries for which Bill Dean had records
CEM NO. DATES TOTAL RECORDS CEMETERY NAME OR SURNAMES THAT ARE FREQUENT
* INFORMATION ON WAYNE COUNTY GENWEB
0   15383 Relatives or survivors of deceased
1 1859-1996 225 King, Moon, Olds
2 1859-1990 2461 CATHOLIC CEM., GALEN
3 1823-1889 172 Veley, Birdsell, Moon
4 1811-1911 287 FERGUSON'S CORNERS, GALEN *
5 1818-1920 16 Hull, Beadle
6 1842-1912 115 Shepard, Brown, Gordon, Coon, Moon
7   69 LOCK PIT CEM., GALEN *
8   133 WHITE SCHOOLHOUSE CEM., GALEN *
9   412 Many wives with unknown surnames; Tindall
"The Lock Berlin Cemetery list, recently posted on the Web page, is Bill Dean's No. 9. However, he lists 412 graves (some duplication because of multiple marriages), whereas there are only about 300 in the Lock Berlin list." - Frank Dennis
10 -1850 24 BRIGGS CEM. GALEN *
12 -1853 6 SW CORNER OF GALEN (Wells) *
13 -1855 12 DABOLD FARM CEM., GALEN *
14 -1865 2 Vanantwerp
15 -1846 4 ROMEYN CEM., GALEN *
16 1824-1892 37 Holdridge
17 1851-1901 87 Landon, Rogers, Watson
18 1822-1942 7 MEAD CEM., GALEN *
19 1850-1856 10 MESSNER FARM CEM., GALEN *
20 1875-1996 320 ROSE CEM., ROSE
22   217 COLLINS CEM. ROSE *
23   65 ELLINWOOD CEM., ROSE *
24   150 LOVEJOY CEM, ROSE *
25   46 N. ROSE CEM., ROSE *
27 1848-1856 4 Harper, Pease, Way
28 1825-1858 3 Andrews, Jeffers
29 1807-1822 8 Aldrich, Wheeler
40 1862-1963 258 WINEGAR CEM., BUTLER *
41 1841-1930 31 Williams, Crandall
42 1855-1995 74 Evans, Farrand, Williams
43 1849-1877 5 Beadle
44 1870-1923 19 Betts
46 1832-1947 18 SPRAGUE CEM., BUTLER *
48 1850-1883 4 OLD GALEN CEM., SAVANNAH *
49 1852-1913 13 Weed
"One more piece in the puzzle -- the Weeds recorded in Bill Dean's cemetery # 49 are buried in the Tallman (Savannah) Cemetery. Therefore, as suspected or known (in some cases), some of the numbers represent less than a whole cemetery." - Frank Dennis
53 1840-1992 125 YORK SETTLEMENT CEM., HURON
54 1835-1996 65 Drown, (Marion Edwards)
55 -1954 204 BUTLER CENTER CEM., BUTLER *
56   19 HUBBARD CEM., BUTLER *
60 1865-1994 440 GLENSIDE CEM., WOLCOTT
62 1879-1920 6 Caywood
69 1866-1996 92 Hendricks, VanHorn, many others
70 1849-1938 17 Wager,Westbrook
72 1901-1992 6 Taber
101 1848-1973 595 Bliss
102 1861-1995 209 (Many Italian names)
103 1838-1905 48 Bunnell, Chidester, many others
104 1861-1914 46 Ferguson, Steitler (ADD. FERGUSON'S CRNS?)
105   1 Beadle
106 1830-1896 19 Coon
107 1893-1915 17 Wright
108 1849-1972 31 McDougall, Hubbard
109 1852-1896 55 Haviland, Haynes, Tindall, many others
110 1828-1857 6 Elijah Rice (1775-1828)
112 b.1805 2 Pullen
113 1836-1893 6 Bivins
115 b. 1775 1 John Humphrey
116 1823-1859 15 Vanderbilt
117 1853-1922 16 Landon, Steel, Shotwell
119 1869 4 Weeks
120 1844-1979 221 V.Terbush, F.Thomas, Jennie Post, W. Milem
122 1855-1907 26 A. Hubbard, b. 1827
123 1832- 13 Fullmer, Thompson
124 1844-1990 17 Elwood, Lovejoy
125 1779 1 Toles, Way
129   1 Wellman, Paul, b. ca. 1760
133 1899 1 Harrington
140 1844-1971 90 Marilla Hubbard, Taylor, Judson Vandeusen
141 -1945 5 Davis
142 aft. 1900 3 Ransom
144 -1883 3 Betts
148 abt. 1900 2 Colvin, Ingersoll
149 abt. 1900 1 James Weed
153 1864-1936 20 York, James and John, Dixon
154 1992 3 Boyce, Reyn?
155 1811-1901 14 Porter Crane, Chapin
156 abt. 1900 5 Harriet E. Merrill, Tyndall
160 1863-1918 28 Johnson, Cuddeback
169 1875-1995 7 Brundage
181 1982 1 Catherine Homan
199 1826 1 Elijah Dawley
201     ROSE CEMETERY
202     ROSE CEMETERY
203     ROSE CEMETERY
204     ROSE CEMETERY
205     ROSE CEMETERY
206     ROSE CEMETERY
211 1921-1991 5 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
212 1892-1956 124 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
213 1892-1989 367 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
214 1858-1987 186 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
215 1841-1951 220 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
216 1821-1988 503 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
217 1856-1990 704 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
218 1847-1987 307 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
220 1816-1962 136 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
221 1853-1991 420 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
222 1866-1984 287 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
223 1832-1953 339 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
224 1822-1976 282 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
225 1838-1972 419 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
226 1826-1953 297 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
227 1865-1982 228 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
228 1892-1990 173 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
229 1855-1968 288 MAPLE GROVE, GALEN
300 1877-1968 31 Croul, Darling, many others
301 1815-1870 9 VANMARTER CEM., LYONS *
304 1907-1994 63 Claude Heit, Ray Bastian, Ruth Rehkugler
305 1852-1950 234 Bockoven, Desmond, Foote, Lauster, Ganz
306 1872 1 Mary Goetzman
307 1824-1996 117 Quinn, Ringer, Snyder
315 -1948 2 Alford Crowell
335 1881 1 Armitage
400 1826-1968 231 Barckley, Braden, Hall, Southwick, Thorn (SOUTHWICK CEMETERY in Junius, Seneca County) *
401 1831-1954 186 Clark, Lawrence, Little, Southwick (all names ex. Lawrence on SOUTHWICK CEMETERY list) *
402 1856-1924 35 Bonnell, Lundy
403 1828-1945 36 Chalker, Winans, Woodworth
404 1876-1918 5 Wooden
405 1923-27 2 Southwick, Cosac
406 1851-1962 59 VanBuskirk, Westbrook
407 1882-1918 5 Roemer
501 1861-1983 37 Howell
502 1911-33 2 Daratt, Wood
503 1919-77 15 Howell, Darrow
504 1881-1965 7 Howell
605 1936 1 Mirick
801 1865-77 2 Sullivan
900   4 Petocchi, Buttachio
 
* INFORMATION ON WAYNE COUNTY GENWEB


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