Braman Corners Union Cemetery

05/05/2020

Annual Meeting 5/19/20
@ 7 pm Duanesburg Florida Baptist Church Hall
RT 30
Delanson , NY 12056

11/19/2019

09/19/2019

By KATIE HOPSICKER [email protected] A trapeze artist falls and dies the day before her birthday. A 16-year-old drummer boy is killed at the Battle of Antietam. A young woman is thrown out o…

06/20/2019

Sometimes, it's impossible to find the story behind a stone, but the stone itself can be the story. This small white marble broke above the inscription and its lower half can't be found. The size and the delicate, marvelously detailed cherub suggest that might have been originally been placed at the grave of someone young.

06/17/2019

Tucked away off New Scotland Road, behind the former Mangia property, in the hamlet of Slingerlands, NY is the Slingerland Family Burial Vault. The Friends of the Slingerland Family Burial Vault was established in October of 2017 to address the disrepair of the Slingerland Family Burial Vault (erect...

05/31/2019

Grief and loss are two of the primary drivers behind drug and alcohol addiction. For example, widowers over the age of 75 have the country’s highest rate of alcoholism. Here are the warning signs that someone is having difficulty coping with grief and loss.

05/26/2019

05/22/2019

Among those buried in this old stone hillside crypt is a young aerialist from the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Ella Hackett.

According to the New York Dramatic Mirror dated April 15, 1914, the eighteen year old was practicing a new act with her sister, Sarah, two weeks earlier.

The brief article described the April 1 tragedy:

"The young performer, who disdained the safety net, fell while swinging on an ordinary trapeze like an immense pendulum, and In striking the platform her skull was fractured. She died within four minutes."

At the time of her fatal accident, Ella's father, Dr. Clancey Hackett, was ordering refreshments and making other arrangements for her upcoming birthday. She was one month away from turning nineteen.

Ella was buried in her maternal family tomb in Lot 6, Section 70 on April 4, 1914.

05/16/2019

If you're anything like me, you grew up in a fairytale surrounded by siblings who stood 10 feet tall. You grew up with parents who were as brave as superheroes. You grew up naïve to the world around you. Don't get me wrong; I was well aware of what…