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Show Exciting adventure found in family history research Union Cemetery. Four more were found nearby in a Connecticut graveyard. Since the writing on most of the tombstones , has worn away, the couple secured permission from Norman Barlow, president of the Amenia Union Cemetery Improvement Im-provement Association, to clean the stones and install small stainless steel markers on the tombstones so that all who visit the cemetery can read the inscriptions. 1 In the future, Mr. and Mrs. Moss hope to install a special monument r to the jWinegar family patriarch, Uldrick, and to his children. In 1988 DeVor Moss and his wife, Marjory Winegar Moss, moved mov-ed to East Fishkill, New York. The change was necessary because of Mr. Moss' employment " This move from Bountiful to upstate New York proved to be an exciting adventure in family history research for the couple. East Fishkill is in Dutchess County, the area where Uldrick Winegar, Mrs. Moss sixth great-grandfather, setdedinl724. According to Mrs. Moss, at the time Uldrick settled in the valley, the Sacketts were the only other people who lived there, that were of European extraction. It was necessary for the Sacketts and the Winegars to live in harmony with the Native American neighbors. They must have succeeded since it is recorded that the Winegars were able to ride to church on Sunday without the armed guards most settlers considered necessary for safety. UWck must have developed a highly successful life style.. He lived liv-ed to be 102. ') So far,' Mr. and Mrs. Moss have discovered 23 members of the Winegar family that are buried in the upstate New York Amenia fPlllililllli'-1 'l::5:ii 'ffllill-rl - 2 JD J :mMMiM;r' ASllllpilSil:ili:IlS , " ' i N" i!;-" IllpllllB h. - nil - 1 1 -r 111 T' ' - . - , .v..im .X.fe..isy - T---.T t. .-. i T , . DeVor Moss and his wife, Marjory Winegar Moss; have been : successful in locating 23 members of the Winegar family that ' were buried In the Amenia Union Cemetary in New York" ? (above). The couple secured permission to clean stones and : install small stainless steel markers on them to make the infor-' infor-' mation legible (right). |