Support Will Help Acquire Tools to Repair and Restore Tombstones
BOONVILLE — Restoration of several decades-old gravestones in the Boonville Cemetery will move forward thanks to support from the Kenneth V. and Jeannette Remp Sawyer Community Fund of the Northern New York Community Foundation.
A $7,000 grant will enable cemetery trustees to purchase a tombstone jack to accomplish this meaningful restoration work and repair several broken, fallen, and tipped headstones.
With the first burials in the late 1850s, Boonville Cemetery is one of the oldest in the area and it has become a priority to fix several gravestones. For the last three years, the association has updated digital records to enhance genealogy and research requests related to the 166-year-old cemetery.