Memorial Day Observance in Grove
Placing a flag on a Veteran’s cemetery grave for the observance of Memorial Day has been a longtime tradition. Since the 1950s Francis “Fran” Wilson of Delanson, a member of the former James Duane VFW Post 2303, kept a record of local deceased veterans and placed a flag on their graves in seven cemeteries within the town. He did this for the next fifty years, with the help of his daughter Cindy Wilson Thomas in later years. After Fran’s passing in 1995, the local Boy Scout troop took over the placement of flags, using a list of deceased veterans and flags provided by the cemetery. After a few years, the Grove Cemetery personnel took over the tradition of placing the flags.
In the Spring of 2020, our neighbors on Duanesburg Road, Walter Silva and his daughter Victoria came to us to volunteer their services in paying tribute to our veterans. Walt is a U.S. Navy Veteran. The cemetery provides them with a list of veterans, maps of grave locations and the flags. Walt and Vic place a flag on each veteran’s grave, a penny on the grave marker and salute while reading out loud the veteran’s grave marker.” Veterans are never forgotten until their names are never read.”
Placing a penny on a headstone is a token of respect and symbolic tradition that lets the veteran’s family know someone visited the grave.
Bruce Barton, a cemetery lot owner whose parents are buried in Grove and whose father is a WWII Veteran, volunteered to set up our Grovecemetery.net website. Bruce compiled the current list of veterans and included them on this website. The website contains all the names of known veterans buried in Grove Cemetery along with, birth date, death date, burial location, rank, branch of service and conflict they served in. Clicking their name will bring you to their Find-A Grave memorial with photos and more information. If you have more information to share with us, please let us know by clicking here.
As of June 2026, there are 208 veterans buried in our cemetery, eleven of which are Civil War Veterans. The list is updated whenever a veteran is buried in Grove. Maps of veteran’s grave locations are available on request at grovecemetery.net. We will not forget the Veterans who are buried in Grove Cemetery of Quaker Street.
Walter and Victoria Silva placing flags on the graves of our Vets.
All burials are listed in alphabetic order by last name on the Burial Listing Page along with their birth date, death date, age and burial location by Section and Lot #. You can scroll up or down to search for the name if you are not sure of the spelling. Click the “Open Full Burial List” button above or below to open the Burial Listing Page. Click the “Open Veterans Burial Page” button to open the list of Veterans.
- Listings printed with Red names are cenotaphs. Cenotaphs are memorial markers erected in honor of a person whose remains lie elsewhere .
- Listings with NS in the 5th column (Stone) have no headstone or marker on the grave.
- Listings with a B, B+ or B- have a biography about them on Find-A-Grave.
To search for a specific name, open the Full Burial List page, then press Ctrl + F and a search box will appear at the top or bottom of the page. Type the LAST name of the person you are looking for in the box and you will be taken directly to those names. Use the ↑ up and ↓ down arrows in the search box to move to the next name in that search.
Once you know the Section and Lot# of your loved ones burial location, you can find where they are buried by using our Cemetery Map which shows the sections of the cemetery and also contains detailed maps of the lot locations within each section with the name of the owner of the lot.
All the known burials for Grove Cemetery are also on Find-A-Grave.com. By clicking on the person’s name in the burial list, you will open the memorial that has been created for them on Find-A-Grave.com. Click the back button on your browser to return to the Burial Listing Page when you are finished.
At Find-A-Grave.com, not only can you find a loved one, but also links to other family members along with stories and obituaries for many of the burials. 99.9% of the graves in Grove Cemetery have been photographed and are posted on Find a Grave so you’ll be able to see your loved one’s burial location and headstone.
If you have additional information to share, a picture, a story or you see an error, please contact us with the added or corrected information so we can make the necessary changes.
TIPS FOR SEARCHING
- If you’re not sure how to spell the name, enter the first 3 or so letters of the last name. For example, if you are looking for Van Valkenburg, enter “Van” in the search box. The search will highlight all the last names that have Van in it. E.g. Van Buren, Van Valkenburg, Vanderveen, VanWormer, etc. You can narrow your search from there.
- Some names are spelled differently through the years. For example, the last name Wilber is frequently spelled Wilbur as well. Or Gage is sometimes spelled Gaige. So try different spelling variations of the name if you don’t find them immediately.
Still can’t find them? Use the Contact Us page on this website and let us know who you are looking for. We’ll search our records and get back to you as soon as possible with any information we have on file.
We hope you find your loved one and enjoy using this site. Click the button below to go to the Burial Listing Page.