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Stephentown Webelos Clean Up Historic Tifft Cemetery

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by David Flint
The boys, and girl, of the  Webelos of Stephentown Cub Scout Pack 911 cleaned the historic Tifft Cemetery. They were led by Cub Scout Leader Samantha Bink and supervised by several members of the Stephentown Historical Society (SHS) Cemetery Committee. [private]Committee Member Marilyn Osgood reported that they did a magnificent job of clearing out the brush and small trees that had overgrown the graveyard and that they generally spruced up the area.
The cemetery, located off of Greenman Hill Road, is the burial site of some 40 Stephentown residents who died between 1807 and 1910. Family names in addition to Tifft include Pomeroy, Schermerhorn, Chadsey, Phillips and Bradford. According to SHS records, Robert Tifft, one of those buried here, was born May 25, 1732, and served early in the Revolutionary War as a corporal in Samuel Gorton’s company under the command of Caleb Tefft. He later enlisted in Colonel John Topham’s Rhode Island Infantry Regiment under Captain Benjamin West.

The Webelos of Stephentown Cub Scout Pack 911 pose for a photo after spending several hours recently cleaning up the Tifft cemetery, one of Stephentown’s many old burial grounds. In the back row are (l-r) Gavin Bink, Andrew Joyes and Joey Zwack; middle row Liam Lowry and Wyatt Cameron; front row Jesse Cameron, Kayla Dette and Ethan Dette. (David Flint photo)
The Webelos of Stephentown Cub Scout Pack 911 pose for a photo after spending several hours recently cleaning up the Tifft cemetery, one of Stephentown’s many old burial grounds. In the back row are (l-r) Gavin Bink, Andrew Joyes and Joey Zwack; middle row Liam Lowry and Wyatt Cameron; front row Jesse Cameron, Kayla Dette and Ethan Dette. (David Flint photo)

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