In July 2025, several members of the family were able to locate and visit the Wormuth Family Cemetery in Sullivan County, New York.
There, lo and behold, was the, now broken, headstone of Peter Wormuth that we had previously thought was in the Harvard Cemetery.
The cemetery is on private land and I, for one, will not divulge the exact location out of respect for the current owners. I did contact the owners requesting that members of the family be given permission to clean up and maintain the cemetery. I have not had an answer from them.
Some of the brush has been cleared revealing at least 10 additional stones scattered among the brush. We did clean Peter's headstone and there is talk of repairing it. It would be nice to clear the rest of the brush and install a small barrier around the cemetery so that the stones are protected from damage.
We're on hold at the moment. But, I have updated the page for the cemetery @ WikiTree. We may be able to determine some of the family members who are buried in the cemetery. There are already 3 names that have been added to the page; the link above will take you there.
There are some very good collections of documents and historic texts at various locations in Montgomery County and there has been a lot of Wormuths and Wormwoods who have lived there.
While we were unsuccessful in finding out Peter Wormuth, there were lots of records of lots of other Wormuths that will become part of the larger Wormuth One-Name Study.
Les is off to Kansas to visit family for the winter with ideas of what the next steps should be to find our Peter's parents which we will work on when he returns. It was nice to meet Lorraine and we're in touch. She's interested in family photos so I will be sending some to her. Les and Lorraine are from a branch of the family through Dora and Richard Wormuth and, until recently, didn't know much about the family history but are enthusiastic. It's very nice to have some family members to work with on the research.
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