Seventy-two graves in the Gallaudet home on the New Hamburg Road, Town of Wappinger, are being opened and the remains of 72 former residents at the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes' Home are being removed to the Wappingers Rural Cemetery for reburial.

The old cemetery, which is located on a hillside just west of the main home of the institution, is being vacated to provide for expansion of the enormous holdings of the New York Trap Rock Co. The latter company plans to "wash away" under heavy pressure of water, the rolling hills on the vast estate, to obtain more rock.

The Gallaudet Home property was purchased earlier this year by the New York Trap Rock Co. at a cash price reported at $85,000.  The company is leasing the property to the home for a period up to five years, at $1 per year, to afford the mission an opportunity to buy or rebuild a new home.

The 106 acre estate, with a huge stone building as the main home of the institution, adjoins the Trap Rock property at Stoneco, which is just south west of the Gallaudet Home.

After purchasing the property, the New York Trap Rock Co. officials, purchased a large plot in Wappingers Rural Cemetery, to provide space for burial of deceased residents of the Home.

Robert H. Auchmoody, undertaker and funeral director, who has parlors in Grand Avenue and at Fishkill, is directing the removal of the remains of the 72 late residents of the Home to the new burying ground.  At the cemetery yesterday, Mr. Auchmoody, said that the job of transferring the graves to Wappingers Falls, probably will be completed some time next week.

With his two staff assistants, Purcell Higgins and David Evans, Mr. Auchmoody yesterday directed the removal of several of the bodies.  He explained, "each body is placed in an individual box for reburial."

Sometime ago, relatives of the late residents were notified of the plans for the transfer of the graves to the new plot.  Many sent word to the officials of the home, giving their consent, and relatives of a few could not be located.

Those who could not be located by letter, were notified through publication of of an order signed by County Judge Flannery, explaining the purpose for the transfer of the graves.

The first resident of the home who was buried in the Gallaudet cemetery west of the main home, was recorded in Mr. Auchmoody's records as William T. Atwood, who was buried in 1890 at the age of 80 years.  Mr. Auchmoody said the last person buried in the cemetery off New Hamburg Road was listed as Clara M. Kohl, wo was interred in 1944 at the age of 63 years.

(*one line of article bad in film here*) stones, showed that Bonaventure Clark, who died in 1910 at the age of 92 years, was one of the oldest residents of the home to be buried in the institution cemetery.

Upon opening the graves, Mr. Auchmoody and his aides, found many of the bodies well preserved.

While the present home was occupied in 1903, the property of the original home was purchased from Isaac Nicholas Frost in 1885, and the stone home was provided in 1886.

That home was destroyed by fire in 1901, and during the period of 1901 to 1903 the patients were accommodated in the former Pelton house, now the home of the Poughkeepsie Day Nursery in North Clover Street.