Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site

On September 20, 1999, and January 1, 2000, I visited the small cemetery on the knoll above Clovesville west of the church, which I understand was (primarily?) an Osterhoudt family cemetery. It is very heavily overgrown, and if there was a fence there before, I don't see it now, except for a very few stones which may be the remains of a low fence a few feet above the highway level on the south (Old Rt . 28) side. I was only able to get readable inscriptions off 9 stones (one with 3 names). There are at least 18 more stones so completely weathered that they show absolutely no remaining sign of any inscription, some of them being down to mere stumps. Because of the heavy overgrowth, and because a number of stones have fallen (including some in fairly good condition), it may well be that a more careful reconnaissance would reveal more stones with readable information. The locations and arrangement of the stones I found suggest that if the cemetery was at all symmetrical, there must indeed be substantially more graves there. - Steven Delibert, January 5, 2000 (with credit to John R. Todd, Sr., for giving me the idea)