Cemetery Committee for 1853

Port Gibson Cemetery - Port Gibson Ontario County NY

Organized in 1853: Mead Allerton, Sec'y: Town of Manchester

CEMETERY COMMITTEE FOR 1853

Leander Russell

Lyman Clark

Mead Allerton

DIRECTORS FOR THE YEAR 1854

William Blossom

L. C. Russell

Thomas W. Beebe

Oliver Bird

Lyman Clark

SUBSCRIPTION LIST FOR FENCING CEMETERY 1843: COMMITTEE

Ashbel Huntoon

Jacob Salpaugh

John P. Sahler

William Drum

Mead Allerton

Huntoon, A.	Decker, Tunis	Cadwell, H.
Allerton, M.	Snyder, H. P.	Russell, L. C.
Salpaugh, J.	Drum, William	Duffee, I. M.
Lane, L.	Allerton, Ransom	Burgett Bros.
Thompson, I.	Bockover, George	Clute, H. L.
Short, Nehemiah	Johnson & Brown	Throop, Jesse
Halladay, Doty & C.	Snook, John	Palmer, C.
Throop, Azel	Corwin, M. R.	Russell, L. C.
Miller, Eliel	Sahler, John P.	Allerton, M.
Wakeman, Joseph	Betts, James	Irwin, Thomas
Pepper, A. B.	Sibbett, Jonathan	Parker, William
Stoddard, Benjamin	Lock, Jesse	Hageman, William
Terry, Jesse	Pratt, Sidney	Hageman, John
Pulman, William	Halladay, John	Clark, Lyman
Fosgate, George	Miller, William J.	Vosburgh, C.
Jenkins, Lewis	Towner, Moses	Palmer, C.
Briggs, George S.	Schutt, Martin	Schutt, Delan
Couse, James	Warberton, Thomas

The Committee procured of H. B. Gibson a deed of the old cemetery and some new land and the title was conveyed to the Trustees of the M. E. Church of Port Gibson and the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church in trust for the inhabitants of Port Gibson and vicinity, to be used as a cemetery by said subscribers. The deed was recorded in January, 1844.

Mead Allerton procured new land of Gardner Straight and wife for a piece of land lying South of Old Cemetery - dated
Apr. 27, 1854.

List of Subscribers (Continued):

Smith, Asa	Straight, Gardner	Pratt & Burgett
Johnson, M. A.	Beebe, Thomas W.	Bird, Oliver
Throop, Azel	Huntoon, Asbra	Allerton, Ransom
Styler, Mrs. & Family	Thompson, I.	Brown, Giles
Pepper, A. B.	Lane, Lorenzo	Gages, William
Fosgate, George	Palmer, Mrs. Cornelius	Buckley, Myron
Salpaugh, Mrs. E.	Wellmeyer, Antone	Sibbett, I.
Snyder, George S.	Annis, Isaac	Stacy, John
Wakeman, Joseph	Post, Henry	Stacy, Alanson
Antisdale, J. S.	Johnson, I.	Hzen, Amzi
Palmer, H. W.	Irwin, Thomas	Tinker, M. L.
Feller, David P.	Towner, Moses	Williams, Ervilla
Brown, William H.	Wilber, John	Jordan, Beriah
Sibbett, Jonathan	Fisk, James G. M.	Pratt, N. L. D.
Sahler, John P.	Alling, Stephen	Snook, John
Brown, George H.	Pullman, William	Clark & Pratt
Decker, Tunis	Bayley, Thomas	Burnett, Mrs. (?)
Drake, Alvinza	Keith, Hartwell	Drake, Amos
Copeland, Sally	Harding, Frederick	Horton, Nathan
McDuffee, John	Drum, William	Straight, Gardner
Buckley, Myron	Burgett, A. F.	Johnson, I. R.
Pratt, Orsamus	Rouse, John

1 8 5 4 (No records until reorganized)

PORT GIBSON RURAL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION APRIL 19, 1873 OFFICERS (Trustees)

Hiram Schutt	L. C. Russell	Edwin Stacy
J. N. Miller	Henry Post	Oliver Bird

THE FOLLOWING PERSONS PRESENT:

Stacy, Samuel	Parker, J. W.	Smith, Henry
Miller, J. N.	Mills, Samuel	Dailey, Elias
Stacy, Edwin	Towner, Moses	Wilson, Jacob W.
Drake, Alvinza	Randall, William	Schutt, John H.
Smith, John L.	Bockover, George Jr.	Phelps, Charles
Robinson, David	Clark, Tom	Strong, Loren
Wilson, George B.	Terry, Carroll C.	Stacy, John
Schutt, Hiram	Post, Henry	Bird, Oliver
Russell, L. C.	Runyon, Rev. W. W.	John C. Wellemeyer, Secretary

ACCOUNT OF DEEDS GIVEN FOR CEMETERY LOTS
Names not included in other lists
May, 1877

Smith, Franklin	Smith, H. J.	Feller, Arthur D.
Nichol, Amarilous	Mills, Adelbert F.	King, Adelbert H.

1881

Shillinger, John	Knight, David	Floodman, Peter
Drum, William	DeMunyon, William F.	Howard, George
McClelland, John	Strong, George B.

1884

Miller, John	Robinson, Mrs. J. H.	Grinnell, Ezra
Babcock, William	Palmer, George	Post, Henry
Wellemeyer, Antone	Salpaugh, Mrs. Eleanor	Williams, Ervilla
Wilbur, John P.

Copied by Mrs. W. F. Garlock, Port Gibson NY
Col. William Prescott Chapter D. A. R., Newark NY

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