Isaac Cummings Gravestone

Comment by Scott Morgan on August 2, 2011 at 3:41pm

I notice there two Isaac Cummings with the same death date. There is this one and Isaac Cummings buried with Elizabeth in Highland Cemetery 

Comment by Chris Dunham on August 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

Yes, Isaac has two stones. He died in Bethel, so it's possible that he was buried here first and then removed to Poland. Or they may have erected a second stone in Poland after his wife's death and left his remains in Bryant Pond.

Comment by Franz Martin on August 2, 2011 at 5:13pm

Another clue -- Isaac Cummings' stone in the Bryant Cemetery in Woodstock looks like a VA stone.  If so, it was not placed there at the time of his death.  It would have been placed many years later, maybe as a replacement stone for the original, or maybe it was placed by a descendant who didn't really know where he was buried, and just thought the Woodstock cemetery was the most likely spot.  VA stones of old-time veterans need to be viewed with extra caution, since they are not contemporaneous with the death.  Errors of information and placement are common.

Comment by Chris Dunham on August 2, 2011 at 5:20pm

That's true. And his dates of birth and death were obviously added after the fact.

Comment by Chris Dunham on September 6, 2011 at 9:41pm

George L. Stephens applied to the War Department for this headstone in 1932.

Comment by Scott Morgan on September 7, 2011 at 7:44am

Awesome. I didn't know ancestry had access to those.

Comment by Chris Dunham on September 13, 2011 at 4:13pm

I've uploaded a photograph of Isaac's gravestone in West Poland here.

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