Barbecue and yard sale
Berne-Knox-Westerlo Sports Boosters will hold a fund-raising barbecue and yard sale Saturday Sept. 18, from 10am to 5pm. at
Berne Town Park. The chicken barbecue will begin at 1pm. Each dinner will cost $9, and will include a half chicken, baked potato, coleslaw, and dessert. Members of all 21 teams are participating, from the fall, spring, and winter sports seasons.
History
NEW CEMETERY PAGE
A page has just been created for the two stone
Eli Miller Family Burying Ground at the foot of
Cole Hill in the Town of Berne.
RECENT BIOGRAPHIES
Wife of Ellery Shufelt and his children , of
West Mountain, was born 1895 one of nine children. He never got beyond the fourth grade and could not read nor write. Ellery was called to service in October of 1918. Ellery married his wife Beatrice in May of 1933. They had four children. The family was one of the last families to live on
West Mountain in the 1930s when they were squatters during the time the federal Land Recovery Program were buying up abandoned and marginal farms. (Read the article on
Partridge Run State Wildlife Management Area for more information about this period in the history of the Berne.) Both Ellery and his wife were stricken with TB. In the biography of
Ellery Shufelt is a very interesting
Altamont Enterprise article on his family and their hard scrabble life.
Ellery Shufelt and family These photos were taken by Arthur Rothstein, the well known photographer for the Farm Security Administration.
| Ellery Shufelt Cutting Buckwheat |
TURNER BURIAL GROUND The
Turner Burial Ground is located on West Mountain within the boundaries of the
Partridge Run NYS Wildlife Management Area on Bradt Hill Rd; in the southwest corner of
Lot 468. It is named after George Turner (1783-1833) who emigrated from England and settled on West Mountain in 1832. The earliest known burial was 1812; last was 1937. It seems to have been a community burying ground from the beginning, as there are many different names of early farming families who lived in the immediate vicinity. 100 by 140 feet. This cemetery was restored in 2003 as part of Berne Heritage Days. It is mowed regularly by the Town of Berne. It is surrounded by a stone wall in fair condition. The stone wall was repaired in the summer of 2009 by the Town. The front stone wall was rebuilt in the summer of 2010.
Rebuilt stonewall, 2010
Rebuilt front stone wall, 2010 | Rebuilt front stone wall, 2010 |
