Sometimes I walk along the Arthur Kill, the tidal creek that separates Staten Island from New Jersey to old-time Staten Islanders, this is “the inside shore.” Sometimes I go over on the ocean side, and walk along Raritan Bay this is “the outside shore.” The interior of the South Shore is crisscrossed with back roads, and sometimes I walk along one of them, leaving it now and then to explore an old field or a swamp or a stretch of woods or a clay pit or an abandoned farmhouse. Invariably, for some reason I don’t know and don’t want to know, after I have spent an hour or so in one of these cemeteries, looking at gravestone designs and reading inscriptions and identifying wild flowers and scaring rabbits out of the weeds and reflecting on the end that awaits me and awaits us all, my spirits lift, I become quite cheerful, and then I go for a long walk. Luke’s cemetery there is a huge old apple tree that drops a sprinkling of small, wormy, lopsided apples on the graves beneath it every September, and in the Woodrow Methodist cemetery there is a patch of wild strawberries. All of the old South Shore farming and oyster-planting families are represented, and members of half a dozen generations of some families lie side by side. The names on the gravestones are mainly Dutch, such as Winant, Housman, Woglom, Decker, and Van Name, or Huguenot, such as Dissosway, Seguine, De Hart, Manee, and Sharrott, or English, such as Ross, Drake, Bush, Cole, and Clay. The older gravestones are made of slate, brownstone, and marble, and the designs on them-death’s-heads, angels, hourglasses, hands pointing upward, recumbent lambs, anchors, lilies, weeping willows, and roses on broken stems-are beautifully carved. Here and there, in order to see the design on a gravestone, it is necessary to pull aside a tangle of vines. ![]() Scrub trees grow on some of the graves, and weeds and wild flowers grow on many of them. The South Shore is the most rural part of the island, and all of these cemeteries are bordered on at least two sides by woods. ![]() Luke’s Episcopal Church on the Arthur Kill Road in the Rossville community, or to one on the Arthur Kill Road on the outskirts of Rossville that isn’t used any longer and is known as the old Rossville burying ground. I go to the cemetery of the Woodrow Methodist Church on Woodrow Road in the Woodrow community, or to the cemetery of St. ![]() Box 1837, Harrisburg, PA 17105-1837, Attention Research Department.When things get too much for me, I put a wild-flower book and a couple of sandwiches in my pockets and go down to the South Shore of Staten Island and wander around awhile in one of the old cemeteries down there. Written inquiries may be sent to the Bureau of Unclaimed Property, P.O. Persons may also file a claim by calling the Bureau of Unclaimed Property at (800) 222-2046, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. If you find your name, you can file a claim on the Department's web site at From this site, you can download a claim form and follow the progress of your claim. ![]() The following list of unclaimed property was reported and delivered to the Department. 16-1345 TREASURY DEPARTMENT Unclaimed Property OwnersĮach year, the Pennsylvania Treasury (Department) receives millions of dollars in unclaimed property from abandoned bank accounts, forgotten stocks, checks that have not been cashed, certificates of deposit, safe deposit box contents, life insurance policies and other sources.
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