Armstrong Cemetery resides in the hamlet of Oaks Corners, Ontario County, New York. There are around 140 known persons interred in this burying ground. The cemetery is located on Old Preemption Road, north of Oaks Corners Church in the Town of Phelps, Ontario County, New York.The earliest burial is that of American Revolutionary War veteran, Robert Cross in 1801. The last interment was in 1929....
Pioneer Cemetery resides in Phelps, Ontario County, New York. The earliest burials date from 1799 and carry through to 1912. "Pioneer Cemetery 1000 graves 1803-1857 -Here lie 16 Revolutionary soldiers and a Lexington Minute Man. Pioneers include Robison, Granger, Deane, Swift, Dickinson, Hildreth." The marker was erected by the Phelps Historical Society. "In the old Pioneer Cemetery on Main...
Resthaven Cemetery resides in Phelps, Ontario County, New York. The earliest burials date from 1813. This burying ground is still active. There are well over 5,000 interments in the cemetery.
Joslyn Cemetery resides in Phelps, Ontario County, New York. Also known as Oaks Corner Cemetery, this burying ground is located on the north side of County Road No. 23 at intersection of Lester Road near the hamlet of Oaks Corners. It is still active and well-maintained. The earliest burials date from 1804. "According to the Phelps Historical Society, there are over 25 cemeteries in Phelps...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ontario County, New York. Official Website The county was established in 1789 and, prior to its formation, was long controlled by the Seneca people, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. They were forced to cede most of their land to the United States after the American Revolutionary War. This fron...
Fishers, NY. — Seed Potato Capital of the World Fishers, Victor, Ontario County, Finger Lakes region, Upstate New York. Fishers is a hamlet in the northwest corner of the Town of Victor, Ontario County, New York, United States. It is a small suburb of Rochester. The community is south of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90). The town of Victor was established in 1812. Named after war he...
This project is for those buried in Allen's Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Ontario County, New York. Find a Grave Ontario NY GenWeb
Glenwood Cemetery is a beautiful example of a Victorian era garden cemetery. Originally opened in 1873 on about 50 acres of land, Glenwood was designed to be a place of quiet family gatherings and picnics as well as a burial ground. A landscape architectural drawing for the cemetery suggests it was designed by H. W. S. Cleveland, a friend of Frederick Law Olmsted who designed Central Park. Hi...
County Road 3 and County Road 41 Victor, Ontario, New York, USA 42.95970, -77.41270 Main Website A Brief History “ Hezekiah Boughton Sr , son of Eleazer Boughton, Sr. I , was born in Norwalk, Ct, November 2, 1725, married at Stanford, Ct October 12, 1749 to Abigail Penoyer , daughter of Samuel and Theophilia Sellect Penoyer . In 1788 Phelps and Company of New England purchased large tracts of...
Wikipedia ==Hobart and William Smith Colleges=Hobart and William Smith Colleges (collectively, The Colleges of the Seneca) are located on 195 acres in New York state's Finger Lakes region in Geneva, New York, United States. They trace their origins to Geneva Academy established in 1797. Hobart College (men) and William Smith College (women) are both liberal arts colleges offering the degrees of...
Washington Street Cemetery is an historic cemetery located in Geneva, Ontario County, New York. The cemetery was laid out in 1832 and the entry is distinguished by a handsome cast iron arch dating from the 1840s / 1850s. It contains about 2,200 burials dating from 1832 to the 1950s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Wikipedia In 1832 the village trustees o...
Geneva Medical College was founded on September 15, 1834, in Geneva, New York, as a separate department (college) of Geneva College, currently known as Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In 1871, the medical school was transferred to Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. In 1950, State University of New York (SUNY) moved to add a medical center in Syracuse and ultimately acquired the Coll...