Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery – Post 2
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Tomlinson's Corner Cemetery
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Hathaway Corners - Farmington, New York

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.)
MARCH 1 1823
IN 69TH YEAR
WIFE OF
ISAAC HATHAWAY
DIED
APRIL 1 1793
IN THE 27TH
YEAR OF HER AGE
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..
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!
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
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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.
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
