Melvin Hill Cemetery

Melvin Hill Cemetery is located in the Town of Phelps, on the west side of Melvin Hill Road.  It is north of County Road #23, in Town lot 85, approximately five miles north of the city of Geneva.  It is three miles south of the village of Phelps, and about midway between the hamlets of Oaks Corners and Orleans.

The Cemetery was to serve the community of Melvin Hill.  John Salisbury donated the land.  Yet no mention has been located in the Ontario County Property Deed Indexes of John Salisbury or any Salisbury deeding property for the Melvin Hill Cemetery.  The size of the Cemetery is about three eighths of an acre, measuring 141 feet wide and 116 feet deep.

The Melvin Hill Cemetery Association was incorporated on November 10, 1908.  The record of the association’s incorporations is dated December 7, 1908 and is found in Liber 3, page 262 of the Ontario County Certificates of Incorporation.

The first interment at this location seems to have been Sarah Ann Salisbury, the daughter of John and Polly Salisbury, in March of 1823.
 

LIST OF INTERMENTS

ALLEN

Pauline

ANDERSON

David S.
Nancy

BIGELOW

Betsey
Infant
Isaac
Isaac O.
Mary
Sandford

BRUSIE

David B.
Minnie
Orrie
Tunis E.

BURNETT

Ada
Bion
Calista E.
Clarissa L. Ely
Ernest E.
Estjer J.
Harraiet A.
Harry
Henry
Howard L.
Jane
Josiah
Joyce
Lowell
Mary Croutchman
Roy H.
W. Dell
William
William
Winona G.

BURNISKY

Emil J.
Shirley S.

CHANDLER

Nettie

CLARK

Infant

COLE

Elijah
Rachel
William H.

(Mc)COLISTER

Samuel

CRITTENDEN

Chandler
Ellen A.
Sarah M. Keeler
Sophronia
Warren W.

DAVIS

Rachel Eden

DRAKE

Mary A.
Sarah A.
Sarah A.

FLINT

Deborah
Roswell

GEROW

Lucy
Oliver

GREEN

Gardner F.
Genevieve M.
Lydia A.

HALL

Ida Salisbury
John Edward
John
Lucretia
Lydia S.
Marion R.
Olney
Orsn O.
Rachel
Serena

HEWETT

Almyra J.
Arthur P.
Otis D.
Rena B. Niles

HILL

Brady
Jane

HOMES

Mary Ann
Richard J.

HULL

Calista Marsh
Calvin H.
Elmer
Fannie
Grover
Samuel H.

INGRAM

Ethel S.
Murray H.

JAMESON

Albert M.
Frances Smith
Harold N.
Ina M.
Lena S.
William A.

KEELER

George Edward
Henry Utt

KEITH

Ann Salisbury
Arthur

LAMBERT

Burt
          , his wife
Gladys M.
Grover
Joseph
William

LELAND

Fidelia D.
Isaaac
Isaac F.
Laura V.
Vilura

MANGEL/MANGOLD

H.M.
            , wife

MARSH
Eugenia
Henry
Henry H.
Hosea
Lydia
Milantha
Samuel

MATTOON

Charles E.
William H.

MELVEN

Almon
Beulah
Clarry
Jonathan
Jonathan
Margaret Cornfield Ridley
William

MELVIN

Orva
Rebecca

NILES

Laura A. Swan
Maud
William H.

NORTHAM

Aslfred H.
Betsey Ann Burnett

OTTLEY

Allen P.
Benjamin F. G.
Clara M.
Eliza
Elizabeth
William P.

PHILLIPS

Timothy

RHODES

Emma Cooper
John

RIDLEY

Emma A.
Thomas

ROTACH

Mary

SALISBURY

Austin
Caleb B.
Charles J.
Charles M.
Dorothy
Elon G.
Ema Uleta Bakeman
Esther Gates
Fannie M.
Frank M.
Grace E.
Hannah
Jane
John
John B.
John J.
Lucinda Burnett
Luther
Mary C.
Milbun
Pauline Chapman
Polly
Rhoda
Sarah Ann
Stephen
Solomon G.
S. Whitmore
Wallace L.

SCOTT

Shampion
Phebe

SEVERANCE

Arzelia
L. Porter
Wm S.

SHELDON

Charles
David E.
Florence
Mary A.
Sarah S.

SHERBOURNE

Carrie
Cassus
Ellen
Jethro R.
Kate

SMITH

Ephraim
Frank C.
George R.
Jennie M.

SPOOR

Cornelius, Jr.
Cornelius, Sr.
Guitturah
Jeremiah
John F.

STORMS

Willard H.

STRATTON

David
Leona “Betty” (Salisbury)

SWAN

Cassius Emerson
Delia E.
Emerent
Helen L.
Luana
Seth
Seth Emerson
Wallace

SWEET

Ada L. Swan
Catie
Charles B.
Charles W.
Charline
George L.
Georgia Hornbeck
Harriette
Henry H.
Homer D.
Irma L.
James
Infant granddaughter
Jennie S.
John B.
Lina E. Ingram
Lousia Marsh
Mary J. Storms
Merton E.
Miller W.
Minnie M. Heator

VROOMAN

Cuyler C.
Henry S.
Ida M. Crittenden

WALTHART

Edward I.
George R.
Stella A.

WASHBURN

Abigail Sheffield
Charles E.

WHITMORE

Rachel

WILKINS

Charles A.
Rachel A.

WILLSON

Emma F.
Myron

VETERANS

Revolutionary War
Jonathan Melvin

War of 1812
Stephen Salisbury
Milbun Salisbury

Civil War
Josiah Burnett
Calvin Hull
William P. Ottley
Thomas E. Ridley
Cornelius Spoor, Jr.

World War I
Harold Jameson
George L. Sweet

ADDITIONAL SITES SOLD SINCE 1995

Dunning
Gridley
Tiffany

 

The Personalities of Melvin Hill Cemetery, Phelps, Ontario County, New York;  by David L. Burnisky, Heritage Books, Inc., 1995; is available at the Phelps Community Historical Society histsoc@fltg.net & from the author.

Many thanks to David Burnisky for generously providing this information.

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