Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery - Post 5

The last of the headstones in Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery. I found another Mrs John Park. I am not sure if the same John Park.

Mary M

Wife of

John Park

Died

June 17, 1821

In her 35th year.

Amos D

Son of

Thomas & Almira

Park

Died

March 19, 1851

Aged 2 years.

Our Father and Mother

George Greer

Died

Nov 28 1878

Aged 56 years

7 mos & 20 d's

Charlotte M

His wife

Died

June 20, 1878

Aged 57 years

1 mos & 21 d's

John Greeb

Died

April 6th, 1858

To the memory of

Sarah

Wife of

Jacob Shulters

Jacob Shulters

Died

April 1, 1863

AE 90 yrs 9 mos

& 17 days

John C

Son of

Eli and Laura

Dolbeer

Died Jun 25

1829

AE 1 y'r and 6 mo

John Dolbeer

Died

Nov 7, 1838

In his 73d

Year

In

Memory of

Pallander Barritt

Who died

Oct 20, 1814

Aged 43 years

6 mos 5 days

____

____ daughter

Of John & Polly

Dolbeer died

April 1807

Cutter Dolbeer

Died

Sept 19, 1846

Age 77 yrs

6 mo.

_____

Wife of

Cutter Dolbeer

Died

Apr 12 1846

Aged 72 years 7 mo

William Nelson

40th (??) NY Vol

Died Apr 14, 1888

Aged 65 Yrs

(Civil War)

Michael Marlatt

Died

July .. 1867 (?)

AE 78 years .. Mo and 15 days

Margaret

His wife

Died July 17 1842

AE 78 yrs 2 mo

& 11 d's

Liza Hummel

Died

Mar 7 1885

Age ----

Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery - Post 4

In this and the next post are the remaining stones in this cemetery. This surname I found interesting, two spellings for the same name. Claflin and Clafflin. At first I thought the first stone was misspelled by the stone cutter but then there were a few stones with the two different spellings. I am assuming they are the same family, they were buried in the same area. I would love to know why, I am a curious sort but I will probably never know the answer to this.

Henrietta

Wife of John Clafflin

Died

Feb 7 1841

Aged 83 years.

John Claflin, Jr.

John Clafflin

Died

March 17, 1922

Aged 69 years

Henrietta S

Daughter of

Belamy & Esther

Claflin, died

Nov 27, 1828

Aged 2 years.

Belamy Claflin

Died

Feb 14 1834

In his 12 year

Betsey

Wife of

Amos Knapp

Formerly…

Charles Kimball

Died Jan 16

1830

Aged 36 years

George,

Son of

John E & Marthan

Tomlinson

Died

June 9, 1825

John E Tomlinson

Died

March 29, 1845

Aged

52 years

Maria,

Wife of

John E Tomlinson

Born Aug 15 1802(?)

Died Aug 15 1875

George Culver

Son of

Grace Culver

Died

Oct 13, 1836
in his 11th year.

Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery - Post 3 - The Parks

At first I just take pictures and transcribe on paper what I cannot read. This family has brought me to a lot of thought in the last week since visiting these graves. People die, it is a fact of life and we don't always want to accept it. In this day in age we have choices to alter how life affects us.


The family of John Park. By a couple of the stones he may have had a wife named Experiance before there was Esther. Too, I see some spaces so wonder if there are missing stones.  I don't remember seeing a stone for Experiance and I did take pictures of every stone there.  Going by the dates of when these children might have been born, it was before the War of 1812 so I am guessing it could be Experiance was a first wife unless there was another John Park. At first I didn't notice or see but then half way down this line of stones that I was taking pictures of it dawned on me that they were all similar in style though sizes varied and this made me stop and read. Then I saw that they were a row of children. Every child died so young and how sad this is. In this day in age if we have problems carrying a child or children, we have the choice not to conceive anymore but how did a family back in this day process this kind of loss? I will not touch on religion in my posts. I am not versed on religion and have no opinion. Everyone believes what they believe. I am coming from the emotional side. How did a young mother feel back then when she was in her fourth or fifth pregnancy and not one child had survived? Was there still joy in the coming birth and God's will was what supported them. (I think I just brought religion into my thinking… ) Or was she apprehensive, afraid to get attached to the child she carried, expecting more loss? I am a tender emotional sort of person and it did touch my heart to see so much loss in one family. John and Mary lived to ripe old ages given the time and I hope that within all the loss they suffered that they did have moments of great joy and happiness.

 John Park

Captain

Died Feb 26, 1861

Age 84 Yrs

War of 1812

Esther

wife of

Capt John Park

Died Feb 15, 1855

Age 69 years

 Esther

daughter of

John & Esther

Park, died

June 8, 1836

aged 8 yrs & 13 ds

 

 Twin

daughter of

John & Esther

Park, died

Nov 2, 1821

 

Infant

daughter of

John & Esther

Park, died

March 11,

1823

 

Samuel

Son of

John & Mary

Park, died

July 2, 1819

aged 11 mo's

 

 S.P.

 

 Abner M

son of John & Mary

Park, died

July 4, 1819

in his 4th year.

 

 Polly S.

daughter of

John &

Experiance

Park, died

June 12, 1810

aged 3 years, 7 mos

& 16 ds

 

 P.B.

 

C.P.

 

Polly.

daughter of

John &

Experiance

Park, died

Dec 2, 1805

 

 M.M.P.

 

Charlotte,

daughter of

John & Experiance

Park, died

Aug 20, 1815

in her 13th year.

Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery – Post 2

Tomlinson's Corner Cemetery, Mendon, Monroe County, New York. This is the Willow tree stone Post. The majority of them were in the section on the left side of the photo.

(( Doing some Googling I found this: The following was in the Honeoye Falls Times on March 31, 1921:

At Tomlinson's Corners is a small burying ground containing 65 stones. Standing alone is an old field stone with the initials "M. Y." This old stone marks the grave of Brigham Young's first wife. It has been desecrated by relic hunters to such an extant that the letters are now nearly obliterated. On what was known years ago as the Dunshee farm, in the south-east corner of the township there is a little range of hills that form a water shed for the creeks and brooks that flow into the larger streams that empty into Irondequoit Bay. Near the source of one of these streams is an opening formed like the letter V with the open end to the west, and at one end, covered now with willows, are 5 natural springs, that feed a brook that eventually reaches Irondequoit Creek. On this creek Brigham Young who came originally from Vermont, built a house and then a saw mill. He belonged to the Baptist Church before he joined the "Latter Day Saints" or Mormons, and the V on his farm with the opening towards the west, and the "living springs" were all regarded as "signs" after he became the successful conquerer of the Utah desert. He was a painter and glazier by trade and when the lumber business was dull he plied his trades and also manufactured chairs and baskets which he peddled thru the country. Benjamin and Rufus Park, from Berkshire Co., Mass., purchased land from Wm. Wadsworth in 1793 and became actual settlers in 1794, and John Park before 1801. Amaziah Park made his will March 14, 1822 and his wife's name was Mary. His heirs mentioned in the will are "heirs of eldest daughter, deceased, viz, Amaziah, Alvin, Hannah, and Ruth (no surname given)." "My son Benjamin's heirs, viz: Amaziah, Thomas and Calvin. My sons John, Amaziah, daughters, Hannah, Molly and Jemima." There was a Lt. Amaziah Park in Col. Douglass' Co. who joined the American Army in the State of New York in 1776. (From Conn. Men in the Am. Rev.)

In memory of

Judith Kimball

In Memory of

Candric D…lf

She died July 26, 1806

In the 14 year

Of her age.

Thomas Reed

Died Aug 21

1855

Aged 51 years

To the memory of

Hannah, wife of

Amaziah Park

Who departed this

Life Jun 10 1811

In the 79th year

Of her age

To the memory of

Amaziah Park

Who departed

This life May 10

1821 in the 86th

Year of his life

Rejoice for a brother deceased.

(this stone had an American flag next to it but no information whether a veteran or not)

 

In memory of

Benjamin Park who

Died June 16 1819 in the

44th year of

His age

Eli Dolbeer

Died

Apr 29, 1859

AE 59 Yr 10 mo 26 d's.

In memory of

Mercy

Wife of

Thomas Reed

Formerly the wife of

Benjamin Park

Who died

Jan 28 1838

In her 53rd year.

Seth Williams

Died Apl 10

1828

In the 45 year

Of his age

Hellen Jemima

Daughter of

Charles & Dolan Ann (?)

Dolbeer

Died Apl 30 1849

Age 1 y'r 22 d's

In memory of

Polly wife of

John Dolberr died

Nov ..  1825 age

55 years

Tomlinson's Corner Cemetery

I realize that I like to do everything in life in the hardest way possible. I could have rambled out to cemeteries during the mild months of weather. I will admit I probably would not go out in summer. I hate the heat and really do not do well in it. Still, zero degree days and 35 degree days? I can't go when it is 60 degrees out? Ah but anyway…

Several times I have thought to leave the Graveyard Rabbit community simple because my post is too long overdue and I feel I am not worthy of those Rabbits that do put in the time to produce an outstanding group of blogs. I feel I have let them down being very non-committal and I think really is that I just try to do too much and no matter how hard I try to refocus and do less, I still end up doing too much because I love to do it all. So to those that are more serious about their commitment to GYR, my heartfelt apologies of not pulling my share. I did change my mind about stepping out of the series for one reason alone, if I blog 50 times a year or even just 2.. Maybe in that 2 blogs, someone just might break through a brick wall in their family research just because I happened to take a snap shot and post it. Too, I just love going to cemeteries. I love the quiet, I love the history and I do go through a range of emotions when I see a line of stones of so many children lost to a couple.. Today's cemetery represents that.

October 16 and barely 38 degrees out. What gives with the early winter! This is a very small cemetery yet this cemetery has connections with the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Tomlinson;s Corners Cemetery is on Boughton Hill Road, Mendon in Monroe County, New York.

One thing I did notice was many of the stones here had weeping willows on them. There was a cluster anyway and perhaps all of the same family. In Googling I came up with the meaning "earthly mourning" and that in some cultures it represents immortality. I am not an expert. Another group were plain white stones in a long row. I have not researched this cemetery so I don't know anything about it so sometimes it is fun to try to surmise the why's of things though I am probably way off!

As you can see, it is a very small cemetery. The next shot is out across the road, it was a pretty fall day, the colors just starting.

Mrs. Brigham Young

Miriam Works Young

Wife of

Brigham Young

Born June 7, 1806

At Auerelius, New York

Died September 8, 1832

At Mendon, New York

Solomon F Kimball

Died July 9, 1825 Age 50

Father of

Heber C Kimball

And Great Grandfather of

Spencer W Kimball

The 12th President of

The Church of

Jesus Christ

Of Latter-Day

Saints

John Clafflin

CPL Capt Millers Co

Col Beard's Mass Regt

Revolutionary War

Apr  8 1754 -  Mar 17 1822

John Park

Captain

Died Feb 26, 1861

Age 84 Yrs

War of 1812

Hathaway Corners - Farmington, New York

Can you see it?

This cemetery is not easy to see. I had been told about this cemetery by a co-worker when I moved to Canandaigua in November. I drove by the corner it was on every day and I could just not see where this cemetery was. So, last week she said look at the clump of trees closer to a restaurant and this time when I went by I saw way in the distance the dots of white that would look to be headstones! So, my daughter and I headed out there the next day, we had a 50 degree day which is much nicer than the 2 degree days we have been known to go out on!

Little Jenny

What we found was a very small cemetery and I did have a GenWeb cemetery print out and found that many of the stones in this cemetery are not on GenWeb. Another project, figure out how to get the stones I could decipher added to the rest. (Maybe the survey of the cemetery was never finished.)

JAMES SWEET
(?)
MAY 1 1862
AGED 72 YEARS
(Mason Symbol at the top of the stone)

Back side of James Sweet Stone

ISAAC HATHAWAY

DIED
MARCH 1 1823
IN 69TH YEAR

IN MEMORY OF

JEMINA
WIFE OF
ISAAC HATHAWAY
DIED
APRIL 1 1793
IN THE 27TH
YEAR OF HER AGE

IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
2ND WIFE OF
ISAAC HATHAWAY
WHO DIED APRIL 21
1839 IN THE 69TH
YEAR OF HER DAYS

STEPHEN HAYWARD
DIED
SEPT 12 1839
AGED
80 YEARS

HANNAH
WIFE OF
STEPHEN HAYWARD
DIED
FEB 24 1839
AGED 78 YEARS
AND 5 MOS

We found two Revoluntionary War soldiers and one Civil War Soldier and I found a Mason. The cemetery needs work, some of the stones are in pieces. As always, we enjoyed figuring out families and wondered about them but I will say, I was not disturbed in this cemetery but did not experience my usual calm of my graveyard rabbit visits. Maybe a day of over active imagination..

View from the back (though would like front from the road) as we left.

Gift of Quiet

I was reading a blog this morning, a knitters blog. I knit among other hobbies that I am desperately trying to whittle down to manageable numbers. There are just not enough hours in the day... I do not have time for a full time job! And so on. But this blog post was about the quiet. It comes after yesterday, being Sunday, and my day filled with Walmart, Gamestop, the grocery store and the laundromat and a couple of computers running, a Wii game and and and and.... no quiet. And even a loud cat!

This is why I like cemeteries so much I think. In them I respect the resting place of the departed. This is their place, not mine and so I am quiet. What do I get as a reward for respectful behavior? Well, I get quiet. The perfect gift. Within this gift is a so much. Within the quiet is time to think and time to hear yourself think. Decisions come much easier without ten other things that you are trying to multi-task with. The hectic life is outside the walls or fence of the cemetery and all I have with me is being one with time and place. I slow down and I don't feel I have to rush.

When I was in Glenwood Cemetery a week and a half ago I did that sudden, "What am I missing out there!?" but then I had to remind myself that it did not matter, this was time for me, a time for quiet and so I let it go and found myself so refreshed by putting all the noise and keeping watch of time out and away from me and outside of that cemetery. The only thing that needed to tell me anything was my body when it got too cold, at least that was sensible. A cemetery puts me in a different time as well. What were the days like for the people I visit. Granted their lives were hectic but in such a different way. Did they find time to sit on the front porch and enjoy the breeze? I can not even remember the last time I did that..

Of late I am on this mission to simplify my life.. I need this badly and I don't know why. Perhaps it is the current state of the economy and my economy. I have so much "stuff".. so many hobbies and everything that goes with it. I personally need to downsize. I want to be fantastic at a couple of things, not so so at too many things. All of this was decided in the quiet of a cemetery on a winter day and I am much happier for it and do not feel so stressed. I am boldly culling through my collection of things. If my ancestors could do without, why can't I? And really, getting rid of one half of what I own? I won't be doing without.

And so.. more head stones from where I go for my personal mental health days. *smile*

From the Washington Street Cemetery, Geneva, New York: