Date: April 30, 2001
Cemetery: Drake Cemetery
Established: unknown
Street: Haskell Hill Road
City: Wattsburg-about one mile
Township: Amity
County: Erie
State: PA
Nation: USA
Zip: 16442
Nearby: Haskell Hill Road and Doolittle Road
Reached by: Crossing property-private
Location: Rural-mixed
Land: Hillside
Water: Yes
Features: Located at the edge of a field inside a line of trees
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Closed
Enclosure: Fence-Broken
Gate: None
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: four
Broken gravestones: No
Toppled gravestones: No
Buried gravestones: Yes
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: No
Oldest grave: 1828
Newest grave: 1887
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Tina L. Curtis-1999
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: Problem-Access
Vegetation: Trees
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Constant problem
Problem: Access denied
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Contacted: Wattsburg Area Historical Society
Other Information
This cemetery is located on the edge of an eroding cliff overlooking
French Creek. Drainage is a problem simply because of the erosion being
caused by run-off next to the iron fence. One of the stones is
interesting because a young woman is buried there named Polly. She has a
carving of a lamb on her tombstone which may indicate that she died in
or due to childbirth with the child being buried with her. No name of
any child is on the stone.
Submitted By:
name: Tina Curtis
Email: tintlc@aol.com
Update
Established in 1820s. First interment: 1828.
Last Interment: 1897. Stones: Five stones-one blank and one is a
footstone. Also one depression with no stone.
