Sunday, October 25, 2009

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



Sunday, October 18, 2009

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













Tuesday, March 10, 2009

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.

Monday, February 23, 2009

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:












Monday, February 16, 2009

Geneva, New York – Washington Street Cemetery

The one thing I can say, my sciatic nerve does not like cemetery excursions. It has already been bothersome for a while now and x-rays cleared me of any wrong bone doing and now I have to go for physical therapy which I have not done yet. I do not know if it is being in the cold for so long or if the uneven terrain kicks it off at its worst.

The second cemetery I visited in my Geneva outing was the Washington Street Cemetery and I gave a description in my last post. I like it so much. I didn't see any current stones but I didn't go very far off the main road that is down the middle. It is no larger than a village Square really. A couple of names I saw in both cemeteries so already have the idea of some of the more prominent names of Geneva.

In my last post I talked about Sarah Ketchum and how I found her stone and right next to her was this fenced in family plot and I saw the symbol on the back side of a monument where I was standing so went to investigate the front of the monument.

Once around to the front, I saw this…

ELIAKIM SHERRILL
COL 126 REGT. INFANTRY N.Y. STATE VOLS.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS 1847-8
STATE SENATOR 1854-5
BORN AT GREENVILLE N.Y.
FEB. 16, 1813,
FELL MORTALLY WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF
GETTYSBURG, PA. JULY 3, 1863
COMMANDING THE 3RD BRIGADE 3RD DIVISION
2ND CORPS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
DIED AT GETTYSBURG
JULY 4, 1863
---------------
IN PRIVATE LIFE
SIMPLE IN MANNERS; STRONG IN INTELLECT
IN CHARACTER BENEVOLENT; IN RELIGION SINCERE
HIS PUBLIC LIFE
WAS MARKED BY HIGH TRUSTS FAITHFULLY
PERFORMED. THE MEMORY OF HIS SERVICES
IS HALLOWED BY THE CROWN OF MARTYRDOM
IN HIS COUNTRY'S CAUSE.

Within this plot is his wife, assumed since they were both born within a year of each other and then the man she married after the loss of Eliakim.

EMILY ELDRIDGE
SHERRILL
WIDOW OF
SIMEON M GALLUP
DEC 25, 1814
JAN 13, 1894

SIMEON M GALLUP
BORN
SCHOHARIE, N.Y.
SEPT 3O, 1816.
DIED
EAST ORANGE, N.J.
APRIL 14, 1883

This stone is situated in between Emily and Simeon. In the picture above, Emily is the front stone on the right side, then this stone, then Simeon in the back corner.