I spend many hours in this cemetary eating a sandwhich, reading the headstones, and reading about them in the various books they are in. That brick wall has always been a sad issue, especially considering the man who built it is buried in that cemetary, hed be rolling in his grave seeing the condition of it.
The brick wall is well built... It is the tree roots pushing up underneath that are knocking down a portion. Plus the grade has changed - causing ground water to flow in a different direction from when the bricks were laid 179 years ago. Yes - Fixing the brick wall is on the list of improvements being done later on in the project.
It was my understanding that until the city took over ownership/maintenance, it was still owned by the Fisher family, and if you could prove you were a direct descendant of one of the original UEL families that started that burial ground, (I believe the Ghents were one of the other UEL families) there was still a limited amount of burial space still there and you could be buried there. Am I mistaken and possibly been told a tall tale by a local?
