Wallkill Valley Cemetery

Now that the snow has cleared, we will begin seasonal cleanup on Monday 3/23. If you wish to save your holiday decorations, this weekend is a great time to retrieve them.

A perfect Veteran’s Day post:
For years I have been told that someone once spent several summers walking the cemetery and mapping out every Veteran’s grave. I was told there was a map made but no one knew where it ended up. Recently, Bill Kirnan stopped by with a surprise for me. He had retrieved the map from the Walden VFW, but the legend and corresponding information was not with it. Yesterday afternoon, Kathy Penney called to tell me she had found all the paperwork to go with it. I met them at the VFW, picked up the paperwork, headed home and started digging. What I have is a thorough listing of all the Veterans buried and their coordinates in the cemetery. This project was an incredible amount of time and work. From what I can gather, the original project was started in the 1970’s on hand drawn maps by Margie and Art Jackson. It was then continued and scaled for a final version by others that was completed in 1989. I’m so grateful to Bill, Dave and Kathy for seeing that this project was not lost and that it made it to me for preservation. I’m already finding answers to questions I thought were lost to time.