OLD DAY CEMETERY
Town of Winfield
Herkimer County, NY
For purposes of listing we'll call this cemetery, read in 1928 by Mrs. G. H. Swancott, the "Old Day Cemetery". Mrs. Swancott referred to it as the "old overgrown cemetery in the southern part of the town of Winfield, Herkimer Co., N.Y. It is in a dense grove near the old Lewis Day homestead." We don't know the exact location of this cemetery, or have any further information about the people who are buried here; perhaps a local resident could tell us.
Update 5/25/99 From Kathy Huxtable: I located the "Old Day" Cemetery today. It is indeed within the town of Winfield on the grounds of the Tennessee Gas Company's Compressor Station on Tennessee Road. I spoke with a Mr. Anderson and he escorted me to the site. It has greatly changed since the DAR did the reading. When the gas line came through in about 1954, they established a substation southeast of West Winfield. As part of the deal to purchase the land for the site the town required that the company maintain the cemetery located on the property. The company hestitated without some modification as the cemetery was overgrown with brush and the company did not want to deal with the cleanup and mowing around all those stones. An agreement was eventually reached. The cemetery was cleared and all the stones, but one, were laid flat and covered with sod. The area is marked with 4 white posts at the corners and a bronze plaque listing the information from the stones. Peleg Brown's tombstone stands solitary in the lush grass. Next to it is a veteran's flag holder for the Revolutionary War. The name given to the cemetery on the plaque is Tennessee Road Cemetery. Kathy Huxtable. April 24, 1998
ALLEN, John | d Oct 13 1831 | ae 24 years | son of Septemus and Olive Allen |
ALLEN, Polly | b June 6 1809 d Dec 21 1830 | ae 21 years 6 mos 13 days | dau
Septemus and Olive Allen |
BRAINERD, Saphrona | d Dec 31 1851 | in her 46th yr |
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BROWN, Mr Peleg | d Jan 26 1814 | ae 71 yrs |
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BROWN, Experience | d June 26 1852 | ae 95 yrs | wife of Mr Peleg Brown |
BROWN, Eleazar | d June 8 1866 | ae 87 yrs |
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BROWN, Patty | d Feb 8 1825 | ae 47 yrs | wife of Eleazar Brown |
BROWN, Nelson C | d Nov 8 1820 | ae 10 mos | son of Samuel & Rosannah Brown |
BROWN, Melinda | d June 28 1819 |
| dau of Samuel & Rosannah Brown |
BROWN, Orilla A | d 1815 | ae 21 days | dau of Samuel & Rosannah Brown |
BROWN, Henry L | d Aug 3 1825 | ae 1 yr 10 mos 22 days | son of Samuel & Rosannah Brown |
BROWN, Morgan | d Feb 15 1825 | ae 11 yrs 10 mos 14 days | son of Samuel & Rosannah Brown |
BROWN, Rosannah | d Aug 18 1834 | ae 41 yrs |
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CLARK, Lewis M | d May 14 1864 | ae 3 yrs 2 mos 6 days | son of Chas & Paulina Clark |
CLARK, Isaiah | d June 16 1878 | ae 84 yrs & 20 days |
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CLARK, Marville | d Dec 28 1878 | ae 63 yrs & 14 days | |
CUSHMAN, Mary | d Jan 2 1888 | ae 68 yrs 4 mos 12 days | wife of Orsemus CUSHMAN |
DAY, Mr. Noah | d Oct 3 1845 | ae 79 yrs 5 mos 24 days |
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DAY, Millea | d Aug 26 1854 | ae 81 yrs | wife of Mr Noah Day |
DAY, Lewis | d Mar 10 1861 | ae 47 yrs 9 mos 27 days |
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DAY, Emeline A | d Mar 21 1852 | ae 32 yrs 10 mos 9 days | wife of Lewis Day |
DAY, Adelbert L | d Nov 17 1846 | ae 8 mos | son of Lewis & Emeline Day |
DAY, Adelia | d May 31 1861 | ae 78 yrs 1 mo 13 days | dau of Lewis & Emeline Day |
GORTON, Joseph | d Dec 18 1837 | ae 57 yrs 8 mos 8 days | |
HAY, Chancey | d July 28 1833 | his 26th year | son of Henry & Elizabeth Hay |
LEACH, Lois DAY | d Oct 18 1834 | in her 35th year | wife of Daniel Leach |
MATTISON, Phebe | d June 22 1811 | ae 30 yrs | wife of Isa Mattison & dau of David & Mary McLAUGHLIN |
MAYNARD, Mrs Abigail | d Dec 9 1831 | in her 85th year |
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MAYNARD, Ezekiel | d July 10 1836 | ae 91 yrs |
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MAYNARD, Ann | d June 25 1835 | ae 89 yrs | wife of Ezekiel |
McELFRESH, David R | d July 30 1845 | ae 54 yrs |
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McLAUGHLIN, David | d Mar 19 1866 | ae 85 yrs |
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McLAUGHLIN, Mary HOLMES | d Sept 2 1867 | ae 84 yrs | wife of David McLaughlin |
McLAUGHLIN, William | d Jan 31 1826 | ae 68 yrs | a native of Ireland |
McLAUGHLIN, Mary | d Jan 3 1841 | ae 86 yrs | wife of William |
McLAUGHLIN, John | d Apr 24 1871 | ae 54 yrs |
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McLAUGHLIN, Elizabeth A. | d Feb 9 1878 | ae 55 yrs | relict of John McLaughlin & wife of A. B. CARY |
SMITH, Larkin | d Apr 21 1842 | ae 71 yrs & 7 months | |
SMITH, Hannah | d Feb 7 1844 | ae 71 yrs & 4 mos | wife of Larkin Smith |
THAYER, Deac. Ebenezer | d Mar 31 1841 | ae 61 yrs |
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THAYER, Lois Maynard | d Jan 11 1866 | ae 88 yrs | wife of Isaac & Deac. Ebenezer |
THAYER, Isaac | d Feb 26 1804 | ae 32 yrs |
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THAYER, Isaac | d Dec 10 1826 | ae 18 yrs & 10 mos | son of Ebenezer & Lois |
THAYER, Louisa | d Apr 15 1823 | in her 25th year | |
THAYER |
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| Two infants of Daniel & Margaret |
WALWORTH, Susan Climena | d July 4 1852 | ae 21 yrs & 3 mos | dau of John & Climena |
WALWORTH, Alvira M | d Aug 3 1839 | ae 24 yrs | dau of John & Climena |
WALWORTH, Climena BROWN | d Mar 17 1870 | ae 60 yrs | wife of John Walworth |
Source: Copied 1928 by Mrs. G.H. Swancott, State Chairman of Genealogical Research, Utica, N.Y. for Gen. Winfield Scott Chapter N. S. D. A. R., West Winfield, N.Y.
The old "Day Cemetery" was typed by volunteer Debbie Smith Zorach, who is researching area Yankee families. Debbie is experiencing the problem of Winfield's shifting political boundaries in researching her Smiths and is focusing on the area of Winfield that was a part of Plainfield before the 1816 township changes. "My Willard Morse Smith was born in Plainfield, while his son William Henry was born in Winfield. That tells me they might have lived in what had been Plainfield in Otsego Co. prior to 1816. Willard and William Henry are buried in Sheds (Madison Co.), so I'm looking for David (or Daniel), Willard's father. David Smith's wife was Lodema (Lovina?) Morse. Willard's wife Lucinda Harrington was born in Canterbury, CT. According to her Madison Co. cemetary record, her father was Keeler Harrington (also b. Canterbury). I wonder if his name might have been Ezekiel. Lucinda's mother was Hannah (or Heannah) Whitford or Whifford."
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