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Cemetery: Bolivar Run
Cemetery
Other:
Sign: Yes
Street: Cross Drive
City:
Bradford
Township: Foster
County: McKean
State: PA
Zip:
16701
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Directions: Off Bolivar Drive on Cross Drive,
up on hillside on road curve.
Type:
Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: No
Features: Large Maple trees surround
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: Fence
Gate: None
Established: unknown
Gravestones: 60
Oldest: 1850
Newest: 1940's
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Adhesives
Restoration: Yes
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: Yes
Availability: McKean County Cemetery book
Landscaping: Yes
Paths:
Trees: Yes
Crypts:
Fencing:
Brickwork:
Ironwork:
Sculpture:
Fountains:
Roads:
Buildings:
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Yes
Slate:
Others:
Wood:
Materials:
Architectural:
Angels:
Draperies:
Fraternal: Yes
Hands: Yes
Lambs: Yes
Monograms: Yes
Plants:
Photos:
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork:
Urns:
Carvings:
Condition:
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Unsure
Weather: Yes
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
Gravestones-Overturned
VA2:
Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1:
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Unknown
Use:
Agricultural
Bordering: Woods
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Occasionally
Archeology: No
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: Foster township supervisors,
Veterans Assoc. McKean County Court house
Surnames:
Reynolds, Rathfon, Cross, Cornelius, Babbitt, Leavitt
Other_Information:
I have tried to restore it for years, but afraid it may go by the
wayside in the future.
Support:
Submitted by:
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Name:
David Rathfon
Email: R_affdave@yahoo.com
Date: May
6, 2005
Update
March 29, 2006
My grandfather, father and I worked on this cemetery 12-15
years ago. We were the ones who repaired the broken headstones,
uprighted the knocked over ones and made the sign that is up in the
cemetery. My father and brother in law still go up there and do
maintenance when they can.
name: John Rathfon
Email: J_Rathfon@oriental.com
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