Berks County Association for Graveyard Preservation (BCAGP)

The Berks County Association for Graveyard Preservation has been instrumental in helping to maintain the Kutz Family Graveyard for many years, long before many of us decendents learned of the graveyard and it's whereabouts.

Below is a link to BCAGP articles in newsletters on the Kutz Family Graveyard:

www.bcagp.org/newsletter/

Kutz, Vol. 2, Feb., 1996, 3


Kutz, Vol. 4, Feb., 1998, 3


Kutz, Vol. 4, May, 2009, 2

Kutz, Vol. 4, Sept., 2009, 4


Kutz, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 3, 8, 9,


Kutz, Vol. 6, Apr., 2011, 7


Kutz, Vol. 6, July, 2011, 6


Kutz, Vol. 7, Jan., 2012, 4


Kutz, Vol. 7, Oct., 2012, 5


Kutz, Vol. 10, Jan., 2015, 7


Kutz, Vol. 11, Jan., 2016, 5


Kutz, Adam, Vol. 5, July, 2010, 6


Kutz, Eva Catharine, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10


Kutz, Jarusha, Vol. 11, Jan., 2016, 5


Kutz, Johan Nicolaus, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10


Kutz, Johan Nicolaus, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10


Kutz, Johann N., Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10


Kutz, Johann N. II, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10,


Kutz, John Nicholas, Jr., Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 9


Kutz, Maria, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 9


Kutz, Maria, Vol. 11, Jan., 2016, 5


Kutz, Maria Susanna (Scharatin), Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 10


Kutz, Nicolaus, Vol. 6, Jan., 2011, 1

Here is a clip from Vol. 11, Jan., 2016, pg 5 

This is from Oct. 2015, where I helped, along with several volunteers, a dowser, and administrative officers from BCAGP to dig up Johnson Grass by the root rhizomes and probe for the missing headstones and grave markers.

This work really paid off when I came back to visit in June 2016 to see the inevitable regrow th of this invasive weed expecting to see massive growth, instead I found the fast growing weed about 3 inches tall. One week later when I returned to spray the weed, it had grown to upwards of 12 inches more. This is the growth habit of Johnson grass. I sprayed in coordination and under the tutelage of the farmers of the area. They too battle with Johnson grass invading their crops. The Johnson grass that had taken hold in our graveyard was quickly reseeding into the field surrounding it. 

This one has always been farmland, from the beginning when Johann Nicholas Kutz I (1690-1749) lived on the land farmed it with his sons, and was buried there. I am glad to have cultivated a good relationship with these farmers. Without their hard work, many of us would not have this beautiful countryside to come back to visit our ancestors's burial grounds year after year.

http://www.bcagp.org/epi/gh-1-2016.pdf