The Bartlett Cemetery

From ALNORCA: "When our grandmother, Drusilla Bartlett Griffith," reads document in the possession of Mrs. Edward Hanson of Collins, "neared the time to lay off the mortal, she was troubled because of a dissension in the Quaker meeting that extended to burial-grounds. As she was in connection with the Friends, her mind was sorely tried until she said to my father, "Smith, I never believe in a quarrel and don't want any over the spot where I am buried, so I wish thee would give out of thy farm a piece of land for a burying-ground where I can be lain, when I die, in peace-also my children and my grandchildren".

Smith Bartlett measured and marked out a plot of land in about 1848, the beginning of the Bartlett Cemetery on Quaker St. in Collins.

Buried in the hallowed grounds of the Bartlett cemetery, located on the west side of South Quaker Road, in the Town of Collins lies Drusilla Smith Bartlett (Griffith) and her descendants, including the bearer of the land for the burial ground; Smith Bartlett.

Thos who rest in Bartlett Cemetery
as per readable grave markers as of 7/24/2002

1. Richard Bartlett Heim B:March 5, 1933 D: April 24, 1997
2. Bartlett Heim, (Husband of Helen Heim) B: January 19, 1887 D: February 1965
3. Helen Heim, (wife of Bartlett Heim)B: September 5, 1899, D: October 1969 (died in Collins Center, Erie, NY)
4. Clifford F Pangburn (husband of Eloise) B: September 14, 1910, D: May, 1984 (died in Geneva, Ontario, NY)
5. Bartlett Smith B: May 12, 1914, D: February 16, 1971 WWII Veteran (Died in Port Byron, Cayuga, NY)
6. Drusilla Bartlett
7. Smith Bartlett
8. Seth F Bartlett B: 1822 D: 1912
9. Stephen Wheeler
10. Prusha Bartlett (wife of Savid) B: D:February 21, 1868
11. Savid Bartlett D: July 2, 1856
12. Levi Taft (husband of Amey Bartlett Taft) B: 1781 D: 1861
13. Amey Bartlett Taft (wife of Levi Taft) B: 1784 D: 1864
14. Abigail E Taft (daughter of Levi & Amey) B:1823 D: 1900
15. Leon B Smith (husband of Portia)B: September 24, 1870 D: February, 1963
16. Portia Smith (wife of Leon) B:1884 D: 1970
17. Nathan Pierce (husband of Julia A Bartlett) Civil War Veteran, B: Fenruary 12, 1843, D: January 28, 1907
18. Julia A Bartlett Pierce (wife of Nathan) B: August 30, 1850, D: October 31, 1930
19. Aurilla Bartlett, B: 1829, D: 1911
20. Emily R Taft, B: September 28, 1850, D: October 7, 1928
21. Abel Taft, B: March 25, 1831, D: January 22, 1905
22. Mercy Jane Tafty (wife of Abel Taft) B: 1831 D: 1836
23. ? Palmer B: 1870 D: 1881
24. Mary Davis Taft, B: October 4, 1830 D: April 23, 1895
25. Jonas W Cook (husband of Rusilla Taft) B: 1823, D: 1912
26. Rusilla Taft Cook (wife of Jonas) B: 1820, D: 1900
27. Lawton G Cook (son of Rusilla & Jonas)B: 1844
28. Amy B Cook (daughter of Rusilla & Jonas) B: 1851, D: 1892
29. Gertrude F Johnson, B: March 4, 1881, D: June, 1978 (died in Springville, Erie, NY)
30. Andrew J Johnson B: 1861, D: 1934
31. Prince A Bartlett, D: March 19, 1850

Continued next column