A kind FindAGrave contributor has suggested the plot information given from burial records.
A FindAGrave contributor who requested anonymity adds:
Wanita Plante was the daughter of Dominique 'Dominick' Plante and Henrietta Augusta Hashagen. She was born in Manhattan New York, certificate number 12221. Her family removed to Delaware township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and are listed in the 1900 U. S. Federal census enumerated by John W Kilsby, a prominent Delaware township citizen. Wanita's father was 3/4 American Indian known as 'Chief Thunder Cloud'. Her father was a dealer in Indian curios and her mother was an artist.
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How this grave was initally found: When it was thought the Tocks Island Dam would be built, a number of public notices went into newspapers to locate next of kin for people interred on land the dam would put underwater.
Below is such a notice, which contained many names, including the person on this memorial.
From the Port Jervis Union Gazette, Friday March 9, 1973:
-- NOTICE --
This Notice seeks information about the following names or initials taken from headstones or footstones in the Delaware Cemetery located at Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania:
[Following was a long list of names, which included the individual memorialized here.]
It is requested that the next-of-kin or other relative, or anyone having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of kin
or other relatives of the above deceased, please notify-
Mr. Albert C. Hooke
Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc.
PO Box 1963
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
A FindAGrave contributor who requested anonymity adds:
Wanita Plante was the daughter of Dominique 'Dominick' Plante and Henrietta Augusta Hashagen. She was born in Manhattan New York, certificate number 12221. Her family removed to Delaware township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and are listed in the 1900 U. S. Federal census enumerated by John W Kilsby, a prominent Delaware township citizen. Wanita's father was 3/4 American Indian known as 'Chief Thunder Cloud'. Her father was a dealer in Indian curios and her mother was an artist.
___________
How this grave was initally found: When it was thought the Tocks Island Dam would be built, a number of public notices went into newspapers to locate next of kin for people interred on land the dam would put underwater.
Below is such a notice, which contained many names, including the person on this memorial.
From the Port Jervis Union Gazette, Friday March 9, 1973:
-- NOTICE --
This Notice seeks information about the following names or initials taken from headstones or footstones in the Delaware Cemetery located at Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania:
[Following was a long list of names, which included the individual memorialized here.]
It is requested that the next-of-kin or other relative, or anyone having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of kin
or other relatives of the above deceased, please notify-
Mr. Albert C. Hooke
Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc.
PO Box 1963
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
A kind FindAGrave contributor has suggested the plot information given from burial records.
A FindAGrave contributor who requested anonymity adds:
Wanita Plante was the daughter of Dominique 'Dominick' Plante and Henrietta Augusta Hashagen. She was born in Manhattan New York, certificate number 12221. Her family removed to Delaware township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and are listed in the 1900 U. S. Federal census enumerated by John W Kilsby, a prominent Delaware township citizen. Wanita's father was 3/4 American Indian known as 'Chief Thunder Cloud'. Her father was a dealer in Indian curios and her mother was an artist.
___________
How this grave was initally found: When it was thought the Tocks Island Dam would be built, a number of public notices went into newspapers to locate next of kin for people interred on land the dam would put underwater.
Below is such a notice, which contained many names, including the person on this memorial.
From the Port Jervis Union Gazette, Friday March 9, 1973:
-- NOTICE --
This Notice seeks information about the following names or initials taken from headstones or footstones in the Delaware Cemetery located at Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania:
[Following was a long list of names, which included the individual memorialized here.]
It is requested that the next-of-kin or other relative, or anyone having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of kin
or other relatives of the above deceased, please notify-
Mr. Albert C. Hooke
Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc.
PO Box 1963
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
A FindAGrave contributor who requested anonymity adds:
Wanita Plante was the daughter of Dominique 'Dominick' Plante and Henrietta Augusta Hashagen. She was born in Manhattan New York, certificate number 12221. Her family removed to Delaware township, Pike County, Pennsylvania and are listed in the 1900 U. S. Federal census enumerated by John W Kilsby, a prominent Delaware township citizen. Wanita's father was 3/4 American Indian known as 'Chief Thunder Cloud'. Her father was a dealer in Indian curios and her mother was an artist.
___________
How this grave was initally found: When it was thought the Tocks Island Dam would be built, a number of public notices went into newspapers to locate next of kin for people interred on land the dam would put underwater.
Below is such a notice, which contained many names, including the person on this memorial.
From the Port Jervis Union Gazette, Friday March 9, 1973:
-- NOTICE --
This Notice seeks information about the following names or initials taken from headstones or footstones in the Delaware Cemetery located at Dingmans Ferry, Pennsylvania:
[Following was a long list of names, which included the individual memorialized here.]
It is requested that the next-of-kin or other relative, or anyone having knowledge of the names and addresses of the next-of kin
or other relatives of the above deceased, please notify-
Mr. Albert C. Hooke
Gannett Fleming Corddry and Carpenter, Inc.
PO Box 1963
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105
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