From the Maitland Mercury report:
The headstones of the graves facing east at St Paul’s Church cemetery, Paterson, each tell a story.
The details are minimal – name, age and date of birth – but beneath the ground are the remains of those men, women, children and babies who once called Paterson home.
But with the cemetery falling into disrepair, parishioners and residents of the historic village are calling on people to come forward for a clean-up of the site.
Earlier this year long-time Paterson residents Wayne and Val Patfield began a project to restore the graves of their ancestors Samuel Patfield, who died in 1910, and his wife Sarah Australia Patfield, who died in 1926.
