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.