Columbia Cross Roads Cemetery in Pennsylvania

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Get directions Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 41.83344, -76.80243
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This was a very early burial site in the hamlet of Columbia Cross Roads. There is only one memorial with an inscription (Martin son of Timothy Roe and Elizabeth Stoll who died in 1837), the others being native stone set in the ground bearing no inscription. The cemetery is located nearly directly behind the residence of A. (Alfred) Furman depicted on the 1858 and 1869 atlases of Columbia Township on a small elevated knoll over looking Sugar Creek. This residence still exists (2015) on Short Street in the hamlet of Columbia Cross Roads. This may have been the early burial site of the Furman family. "Mr. Furman (William) was from Delaware Co., N. Y., and was the first of his family to settle in Columbia. He lived at the crossroads, and was a justice of the peace. Peter and John were his children, and John, the elder, lived near Austinville. Mr. Furman's brother, Paul Furman, lived on the creek." (Source: Columbia Township; History of Bradford County 1770-1878 by Rev. David C. Craft). Paul Furman and family are assumed to have arrived perhaps in 1815 as Paul first appears on the 1816 assessment list and perhaps his wife died shortly thereafter when he married Elizabeth the widow of Aaron Cook. William Furman died in 1818 and he has a modern style marker in Glenwood Cemetery, Troy, perhaps having been reinterred there.