FRIENDS' BURYING GROUND: Notes

This cemetery served the community that surrounded the last home of the Universal Friend, which is within sight of it across the open farm fields south of Friend Hill Road. The cemetery is of course no longer in use; it belongs to the town of Jerusalem but has no public right of way for access.

It is said that the first burial took place here in 1806. The Universal Friend herself lived in the valley of Sugar Creek 20 years, from her removal there from City Hill in 1794 until her third and final home was finished in 1814. A few of her followers were laid in the vault by her home in the valley after their deaths, and were presumably buried nearby, but they are listed here to make sure they are included somewhere.

Many of the graves are either entirely unmarked, or marked only with uninscribed fieldstones. A few inscribed stones remain. All other names listed here are from records, especially the list copied by Arnold Potter from a memo prepared by Peter S. Oliver, second husband of Maria Clark, the widow of James Brown Jr.

Brown was the Friend’s steward and heir, and Potter’s grandfather; it was from him that Potter acquired many of the Friend’s personal possessions, now to be found at the Oliver House Museum in Penn Yan. Potter stated that his list of the Friend’s followers was based on his grandfather’s information, which came straight from the Friend herself. The list contains the purported burial place of many of the Society, and those said to have been buried in the Friend’s Burial Ground are on the present list. Further information about dates of death, age and relationships were gleaned where possible from other sources. A few names were added of people known to have been associated with the Society whose graves could otherwise not be located.

It should perhaps be noted here that the Universal Friend herself was apparently not buried in this ground, but in a place known only to (it is said) two of her followers, who have passed the information down to two persons in each generation since. Her death occurred 1 July 1819; the entry in the Society’s Death Book says: “25 minutes past 2 on the Clock, The Friend went from here. --“  Her followers were unwilling to bury her at first, awaiting perhaps a second reanimation, but a few days later they laid her in a secret grave, fearing desecration.

FRIENDS' BURYING GROUND: Burials

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[Pair of fieldstones, no inscriptions]

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[Pair of fieldstones, no inscriptions]

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[Fieldstone and footstone, no inscription]

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Allen Patience #

1833

Single; came from New London, Conn.

Baldwin Hannah #

1844

Single; born in Conn., died at a very advanced age

Barnes Abigail Daines #

1842

B1750, wife of Samuel Barnes

Barnes Elizabeth Mills #

Second wife of Henry Barnes, widow of David Mills

Barnes Henry #

1873

B1789 May 28; son of Samuel & Abigail Barnes, last surviving male member of the Universal Friends

Barnes Sarah Whitney #

First wife of Henry Barnes; sister of David Whitney

Barnes Samuel Sr. #

1809

B1743, father of Henry Barnes

Bean Mary #

1840

D ae 60+, single; came from Philadelphia, related to the Supplees

Beard Eunice #

1819+

Single

Botsford Mary #

1831 Mar 31

D ae 80

Briggs John Jr. #

1825

D ae 70, husband of Audrey Place Briggs

Briggs Sarah

1840 Nov 10

D ae 80/6 [date of death written as 10th Day of 11th Month; sister of Peleg Briggs Jr.]

Briggs Mary #

1835

Brown Anna #

D ae 10, daughter of George & Martha Luther Brown

Brown Asa #

1877 Jan 9

D ae 96/9 days, son of Micajah Sr. & Hannah Brown

Brown Clarissa A. #

1834 Nov 30

D ae 34, daughter of Jesse Brown

Brown Lucy

1826 Jan 5

B1759 Apr 11; died age 65/25 days, sister of Daniel Brown

Brown Patience [Ingraham]

1850 Mar 21

D ae 66, wife of Asa Brown [& daughter of Eleazer & Lydia Gutheridge Ingraham]

Brown Temperance #

1852

B1763 Apr 14, sister of Daniel Sr. & Lucy Brown

Cahoon Sinah Davis #

Daughter of John Davis & wife of Stewart Cahoon

Carr Elizabeth #

1833

Widow; related to Havens family of Benton

Clark Elizabeth Malin #

Wife of Thomas Clark

Clark Thomas #

Cogswell Lydia #

1796 Jul 7

D ae 56 in Milo, single sister of Phebe Cogswell

Cogswell Phebe #

1819+

D ae 100, single

Cogswell Sarah #

Widow, resided with Hannah Baldwin

Dains Castle #

1842 Nov 11

D ae 96 in Jerusalem; Revolutionary War

Dains Joanna Barman #

Wife of Castle Dains

Dains Jonathan #

D ae 93 at East Hill in Jerusalem

Dains Lavina #

1850 Oct 15

D ae 86, daughter of Jonathan Dains

Dains Mary #

--- Jun 15]

Wife of Jonathan Dains Sr., died at East Hill in Jerusalem [second burial here, probably unmarked]

Davis Fear #

Wife of Jesse W. Davis & sister of William Davis

Davis John #

Came from Penn.

Doolittle Samuel #

1838?

D ae about 70, came from Penn.

Gifford Peleg #

1830-35

B 1770s in Mass.

Gifford Ruth Briggs #

1830-35

B1770s, daughter of John Sr. & Elizabeth Briggs & wife of Peleg Gifford

Goodspeed Lucinda #

1845 Feb

Unmarried, died at an advanced age

Hartwell Rebecca #

D ae 90, mother of Samuel Hartwell

Hathaway Eunice #

1819+

Died at Thomas Hathaway’s house in Jerusalem

Hathaway Mary #

1819+

Wife of James Hathaway

Hathaway Thomas Sr. #

1795 Aug 25

D ae 66; probably removed here from first burial in the valley

Holmes Mary #

1829 Sep 21

Ingraham Lydia

1850 Nov 18

D ae 70 & 22 days [daughter of Eleazer & Lydia Gutheridge Ingraham]

Ingraham Lydia Gutheridge #

Wife of Eleazer Ingraham & mother of Rachel & Lydia Ingraham & Patience Ingraham Brown

Ingraham Rachel #

1873 Jan 16

D ae 91/8/2, daughter of Eleazer & Lydia Ingraham

Ingraham Solomon #

1815 Dec 16

Son of Nathaniel Ingraham

Kinne Elizabeth #

1816 Dec 18

Widow; mother of Israel & Ephraim Kinne

Kinyoun Elizabeth #

1808+

Wife of Remington Kinyoun

Kinyoun Remington #

1807

Came to Yates Co. in 1798

Malin Abigail #

1819+

D ae 80

Malin Margaret #

1842 Jun 23

Malin Rachel #

1847 Jan 2

Reynolds Martha #

1844

Single sister of Hannah Card, Mary Gardner, Sarah Shearman & John Reynolds

Richards Sarah #

1793 Fall

D in Milo, body removed from City Hill and buried here

Robinson William #

1806

D ae 80 at the house of William Davis, came from Philadelphia and resided in Milo with John Supplee [first burial here, probably unmarked]

Smith Nancy [ Clark]

1846 Mar 17

B1785 Oct 30; wife of John J. Smith [& daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Malin Clark]

Stone Asahel

1834 Nov 25

D ae 75/1/8

Styer Anna #

1815

Related to Wageners & Supplees; resided with Lucina Goodspeed [David Wagener’s mother was Gertrude Steyer, born in 1725; daughter of Stephen Steyer]

Sutton Lament Ingraham Pierce #

1870-75

B1792, daughter of Elisha Ingraham & wife of William Pierce & Daniel Sutton

Towerhill Cloa #

1800 about

D ae 70

Updegraff Jacob #

1800 about

Father of Rebecca Shattuck, Eleanor Updegraff, Rachel Davis & Nancy Ingraham

Wagner Anna

1831 Aug 25

D ae 75 [sister of David & Jacob Wagener]

Wagner Jacob

1817 May 26

D ae 63/3/13 [brother of David & Anna Wagener]

White Catherine #

1817 --- 28

Widow from Penn., died at East Hill in Jerusalem

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