Recently discovered information on the Drake family:

An old William A. boundary map was found that has a cemetery on it. This was located at the end of Connell St. As the story goes, the cemetery, was a private cemetery for the Drake family, and the headstones were removed and discarded when the Lehigh Valley ( LV ) laid their track from the Austin Branch behind Simpsons Patch, in Duryea, crossing Connell St., into the William A. yard heading East. This was later added an extension, west, to the Kehoe-Berg just across the border in Duryea. The graves are reported to be still there, never dug up or removed. And has been confirmed by the local residents still living in Simpsons Patch. The graves were plowed over once more, when the Evacuation trailer court was built after the flood of 1972. The location has been narrowed down to just off, and to the left, of the old LV crossing of Connell St. Old trucks and heavy equipment being cut up for scrap now occupies the site. November, 10, 2008

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