Date: April 28, 2001
Cemetery: Owen Family Cemetery
Established: 1800s
Street: Arbuckle Road
City: Near Wattsburg-about five miles
Township: Amity
County: Erie
State: PA
Nation: USA
Zip: 16438
Nearby: By corner of Lee Road and Arbuckle Road
Reached by: Crossing property-private
Location: Rural-agricultural
Land: Hillside
Water: No
Features: In pasture of small farm. Apple trees within its
borders.
Sign: No
Land Type: Private
Access: Permission-required
Enclosure: Fence
Gate: Locks
Status: Abandoned
Size: Small
Unmarked graves: Yes
Gravestones: about 6
Broken gravestones: Yes
Toppled gravestones: Yes
Buried gravestones: Yes
Removed Gravestones: Unknown
Weather problems: Yes
Pollution problems: Yes
Oldest grave: 1850
Newest grave: 1903
Association: No
Records: No
Inventory: Yes
Records location: Mrs. Ensworth's records-1925; Tina Curtis'
records-1999
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Vandalized: No
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth: Gravestones-Disturbing
Vegetation: Ground-Cover
Drainage: Good
Problem: Restricted access
Problem: Disintegrating Headstones
Work Status: No work started as of yet
Owner: Private
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Same
Reason:
Visited: Rarely
Archeology: No
Contacted: Wattsburg area Historical Society
Other Information
This was a family cemetery that has been neglected. It's biggest
problem is the cows that lie on the graves because they are situated
under apple trees that provide the only shade in the pasture.
Support
Unknown at this time.
Submitted By:
name: Tina Curtis
Email: tintlc@aol.com
Update
Location: 350 feet east of Arbuckle Road &
66 feet south of Lee Road. Previous Readings by: Mrs.Cynthia Brotherton
Ensworth in 1925 & by Thomas H. Hutzelman in May, 1981. Ensworth
records known to be incomplete and periodically incorrect. First
interment: 1836. Number of stones now: eight with writing, two
without-In 1981: ten with writing and two without. Possible two other
rows of unmarked graves. Reading by Tina curtis was done June 9, 1998.
