HEMENGER CEMETERY
HEMENGER/HEMINGER CEMETERY
(OLD GERRY CEMETERY)
GERRY, NY (west side of Route 60 about 2 miles north
of Gerry.)
"History of Evergreen cemetery" Gerry NY
the burying ground in
District 2 Gerry
Heminger
The oldest stone there is a DAMON
stone, erected at the grave of Roany SCOTT who died Jan 31st 1829, also buried
there, James R ALVERSON, His wife Damaris, His brother William ALVERSON,
Gilbert STRONG who died age 92, here also are buried John McCULLOUGH, James
LANGWORTHY, Robert LENOX , James HEATH, Dr Japtha HEMINGER, David COWDEN ,
Ephraim BELKNAP and Samuel WOODS, the last 4 soldiers of the War of 1812.
Charles LENOX a soldier of the Civil War, also here is Susannah WOODS who died
June 15th 1873 at the advanced age of 100yrs 8 months and 22 days, In all there
are about 80 interments in the ground;
also says there was a Methodist
meeting house about 2 miles S of Sinclairville, adjacant to it a burying ground,
consisting of about 1/3 of an acre; set apart from this tract and dedicated to
the public; it has long since passed as have the earnest and faithful fathers of
the little society that built it. previous to the building of this church, there
had been 3 deaths in this community, John McCULLOUGH, who died May 1827, his
nephew JOhn McCULLOUGH who died in NOV 1827, and a child of Chancey SHAW after
the dedication of the burial grounds(Heminger) they were disinterred and buried
there;
HEMINGER CEMETERY online data
BELKNAP, Ephraim, died June 18,
1885 age 92. Ephraim was a Civil war veteran.
BELKNAP, Sally, his
wife, died July 14, 1865, age 64. (She was Sally Terry, daughter of Levi and
Sarah (Pelton) Terry
in 1870 census Ellington Ephraim lived ae 77 with Elihu
PHELPS 64, Charlotte PHELPS 38 ( dau of Ephraim ) and Mary BELKNAP ae 13 b
NY his name is spelled DUNLOP in 1860 Gerry Census wife SALLY dau CHARLOTTE 28,
Joseph 24,still single in 1880 Cherry Creek HIRAM 21, Emily 19,
Martha 16 Mary 13 he is \there in 1850 as BELNAP ae 57, born CT
same
children except PERMENUS? ae 28 a son, JULIA, 19 m Erastus FOX, d 19 MAY 1866 Charlotte, 18, m
Elihu PHELPS, NANCY 15,d 1870 Emily m Erastus FOX 1867 and Martha
who m Abraham PARK and HIS Father JOSEPH BELKNAP aged 88 yrs born MASS (ca
1762) he will also be in this Heminger cemetery
His mother was Ruth
PRESTON, wife of Joseph BELKNAP
in 1880 Ellington, Ephraim lived with Erastus FOX
and his 2nd wife EMILY BELKNAP dau of Ephraim and Sally
ELLINGTON Cemetery Ellington, Chautauqua CO NY
FOX
Erastus b. 9-19-1827 –
d. 4-22-1890
Emily b. 5-4-1841 – d.
4-25-1900 nee Belknap – dau of Ephraim & Sally.
Fred
b. 10-6-1865 – d. 4-14-1934 – son of Julia, sister of
Emily.
Nina
May b. 1875 – d. 2-18-1963 – dau of
Emily
Above cemetery info is incorrect; Ephraim was a Soldier
in the War of 1812;not the Civil War
Company:BELLINGER'S REGIMENT, NEW YORK
MILITIA.
Rank - Induction:PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge:PRIVATE
he was
born in CT, about 1793
he was actually born 03 MAR 1791
Connecticut
CANNON, Betsey, daughter of Stoddard and Polly Cannon, died July 3, 1832, age
14 months.
CANNON, Eunice A., daughter of William and Eliza (Wain) Cannon,
died Sept. 18, 1851, age 4.
CANNON, Levi L., died Dec. 20, 1863 (CBS does
not give age.) HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1847 IN GERRY IS GONE AFTER 1860 census son of
William and his wife is ANN in 1860
In town of Charlotte EVERGREEN Cemetery is William CANNON's wife
ANN ELIZA Ann Eliza Cannon [wife of William Cannon]
b.September10,1811d.Nov18,1885 lot 382 in 1880 she is the WIDOW Cannon so he is
either with her or in Heminger with the ch But we'll probably never know he died
about 1855 Levi died after that so he is probably near LEVI
There is a query on this site posted in 1968 for
HEMINGER Cemetery
A-12 What happened to Stoddard and Polly Cannon? We don’t find
stones for them in any cemetery. When did Levi die. Child or adult?
(see Levi above and Child of Stoddard CANNON )
STODDARD SR was married to Polly HEMINGER
His Birth: ABT NOV 1783 in Massachusetts
Death: 22 JUL 1858 in Chautauqua Co., New York
Burial: 1858 Doty Cemetery, Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., New York
HIS name is misspelled in Doty Cemetery data as CARMON it is CANNON
he is buried by his MOTHER Mary LEWIS CANNON not CARMON,
Birth: 22 FEB 1768 in Groton, New London Co., Connecticut 1
Death: 23 JUN 1858 in Chautauqua Co., New York the name is spelled
CANNON in the 1925 reading of Doty Mary was married 1st to JOHN HEMINGER dau
POLLY HEMINGER wife of her STEP son later son in law STODDARD CANNON
SR, son of SAMUEL CANNON and His first wife CHLOE DAVIS
Stoddard CANNON JR was killed in the Civil War, March 15, 1865. Mrs. Cannon (Mary G. ) died
at Marcellon, Nov. 15, 1892. - (From the Wisconsin GenWeb site - he lived
in Wisconsn ) it's written; There is not enough room on a monument to tell all
that so the lists of names speak for themselves, from William Atkinson to Harlow
B. Wittum, the Jones boys, the Cooks and McDonalds, *Cannon and Smoke. Small
town boys, mostly, who went off to war and never came home /Wisconsin
SOURCE: Dolores Pratt Davidson, 2006