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Subject: Belvue Cemetery
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:58:40 -0500

I'd always heard there had been a cemetery where Harrowgate Shopping Center
is, but didn't realize it was Belvue. Thanks for that information, Gene.

For anyone interested in Belvue, Helen Hutchison Woodroofe, in "A
Genealogist's Guide to Pennsylvania Records," indicates bodies were moved
to other cemeteries, mainly Philadelphia Memorial Park. Jewish persons
were moved to Haym Salomon Memorial Park. And, although Ms. Woodroofe
doesn't mention they arrived with less jewelry in dump trucks, I've heard
similar ugly stories about the "cemetery at Harrowgate." :(

--Val

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> Kathy, that was Bellvue Cemetery. It was not Potter's Field. I knew
> people buried there. We used to play in there. I remember when it was
> closed. It was all run down and dirty. Some people, who were adults at
> the time, have told me that they dug up the bodies with a backhoe and
> dumped them into dump trucks and the workers stole the jewelry that
> they found. I had no relatives there so I haven't looked into it.

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