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Catharine <I>Lainhart</I> Van Wormer

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Catharine Lainhart Van Wormer

Birth
Dutchess County, New York, USA
Death
7 Jun 1852 (aged 91)
Schenectady County, New York, USA
Burial
Rotterdam, Schenectady County, New York, USA Add to Map
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The epithet on her tombstone reads, "Our mother's departed before us, Afflictions no more she shall know, Her spirit has landed in glory, Her labors are finished below." The age carved into her gravestone (105 years and 5 days) is now a known exaggeration since her baptismal data has been discovered. In that era, people were proud to be old and often inflated their age. This cemetery is also called Cobblestone Cemetery. It is behind the Second Reformed Church in Rotterdam.

Local records state her death date as June 7, 1852.
*Records of Some Early Settlers of the Town of Guilderland the Helderburgh and Normanskill Regions. 1944. 974.702 G944B, Schenectady Historical Society, 32 Washington Avenue, Schenectady, New York 12305, 518-374-0263.
* Nevin, Vaughn Lainhart. Stephen's World; the Diaries of Stephen H. Lainhart 1859-1923. Vaughn L. Nevin, 1169 Phoenix Ave., Schenectady, NY 12308: self-published, 2001.
* Bible and Family Records by William A. Brinkman Historian. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, 1943 Film 532617 Item 6.
The epithet on her tombstone reads, "Our mother's departed before us, Afflictions no more she shall know, Her spirit has landed in glory, Her labors are finished below." The age carved into her gravestone (105 years and 5 days) is now a known exaggeration since her baptismal data has been discovered. In that era, people were proud to be old and often inflated their age. This cemetery is also called Cobblestone Cemetery. It is behind the Second Reformed Church in Rotterdam.

Local records state her death date as June 7, 1852.
*Records of Some Early Settlers of the Town of Guilderland the Helderburgh and Normanskill Regions. 1944. 974.702 G944B, Schenectady Historical Society, 32 Washington Avenue, Schenectady, New York 12305, 518-374-0263.
* Nevin, Vaughn Lainhart. Stephen's World; the Diaries of Stephen H. Lainhart 1859-1923. Vaughn L. Nevin, 1169 Phoenix Ave., Schenectady, NY 12308: self-published, 2001.
* Bible and Family Records by William A. Brinkman Historian. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, 1943 Film 532617 Item 6.


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