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Sandy Hill Church Cemetery

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Location	:	Perkinsville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.5093500, -77.6317100
Description	:	History of the Sandy Hill Church Cemetery compiled from a March 2, 1951 article in the Genesee Country Express by Mrs. Earl C. Armstrong. High on Sandy Hill, overlooking Perkinsville, Wayland, Dansville, and Rogersville, German immigrants completed in 1836 a simple log church, surrounded by a graveyard, and marked by a large wooden cross. It has been called the pioneer church of Steuben County and for a while was the only place of worship for Protestants and Catholics alike for miles around. The earliest recorded burials date to about 1840, however there may have been burials there from the... Read More	History of the Sandy Hill Church Cemetery compiled from a March 2, 1951 article in the Genesee Country Express by Mrs. Earl C. Armstrong. High on Sandy Hill, overlooking Perkinsville, Wayland, Dansville, and Rogersville, German immigrants completed in 1836 a simple log church, surrounded by a graveyard, and marked by a large wooden cross. It has been called the pioneer church of Steuben County and for a while was the only place of worship for Protestants and Catholics alike for miles around. The earliest recorded burials date to about 1840, however there may have been burials there from the cholera epidemic of about 1834. By 1850, the Sacred Heart Church had been built in Perkinsville and the old one at Sandy Hill was torn down around 1851. Some of the bodies were removed from this early cemetery to the Sacred Heart Cemetery in Perkinsville when it was built in 1854. Others, mostly unknown with no surviving relatives, were left in this lonely, desolate spot marked by nothing more than the feeble, small wooden cross. About 1900, the original cross was replaced with another, some nine foot high. In 1949, Ferdinand Morsch carried out apromise made to his mother as a small boy and erected a magnificent 12 foot high cross made of native stone and concrete near the road where it still stands as a tribute to the first place of worship for the early pioneers of this area. No individual tombstones or cemetery marker exist at this site. Just the massive cross. According to records,the land where the cross sits belongs to the German Catholic Church, and the deed reads that the land can never be transferred. Source: http://www.paintedhills.org/STEUBEN/SandyHillChurchCemetery.html

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Sandy Hill Church Cemetery is located at Acomb Road near Recktenwald Road Perkinsville, Steuben County ,New York ,USA.
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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Saint Peter's Cemetery
Perkinsville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5285988, -77.6256027

2. Greenlawn Cemetery
Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5197400, -77.6716800

3. Sacred Heart Cemetery
Perkinsville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5411800, -77.6266930

4. Rogersville Forest Lawn Cemetery
Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4735985, -77.6605988

5. Holy Cross Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5433006, -77.6769028

6. North Loon Lake Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5050880, -77.5665250

7. Lakeside Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.4895810, -77.5716990

8. Green Mount Cemetery
Dansville, Livingston County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5430984, -77.6813965

9. Bluff Point Cemetery
Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5044360, -77.6989940

10. East Wayland Cemetery
Wayland, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5349998, -77.5691986

11. Old Saint Joseph's Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5594800, -77.6075600

12. North Oak Hill Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.4703200, -77.6832500

13. Saint Joseph's Cemetery
Wayland, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5625200, -77.6044980

14. Beachville Cemetery
Beachville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4516983, -77.6250000

15. Old Cemetery
Wayland, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5671330, -77.5946220

16. Old Dansville Village Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.5570950, -77.6942610

17. Wayland Village Cemetery
Wayland, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5723280, -77.5901780

18. Kidd - Fronk Cemetery
Dansville, Livingston County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5730553, -77.6724854

19. Haight Cemetery
Cohocton, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5155830, -77.5347020

20. Poag's Hole Cemetery
South Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4946310, -77.7287860

21. Pleasant Valley West Cemetery
Livingston County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5911789, -77.6376953

22. South Oak Hill Cemetery
South Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4366989, -77.6847000

23. Doty's Corners Cemetery
South Dansville, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4614601, -77.7282715

24. Saint Paul's New Lutheran Cemetery
Cohocton, Steuben County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5153740, -77.5148060

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