Chase Family Cemetery
The Chase Cemetery is located in the woods, on private property, near the
intersection of State Route 23A and County Route 17 in the Town of Jewett,
Greene County, NY. There is an old logging road, leading up the mountain, behind
the first house northwest of the intersection. The walk is longer than the one
to the Skiff Cemetery, but not as steep. On the right is a very large pine tree
with branches coming out of its lower trunk. Here the stone wall that surrounds
the cemetery can be seen on a hill above the logging road, but there is no
visible path leading to it. There is an old, wooden turnstile at the gate,
intended to keep cows out of the cemetery, and
numerous fieldstones.
These inscriptions were read on October 14, 2000, by
Susan Neugebauer, the Jewett Town Historian, and Patricia Morrow, the Windham
Town Historian. Additional notes in brackets come from
the sources listed at the end of this list.
Abbreviations: b - born; d - day(s), died; dau - daughter; IL - Illinois;
m - month(s); MA - Massachusetts; M. E. - Methodist Episcopal;
N. Y. - New York; y - year(s)
Row 1, left to right
1. Eliza Chase - b. 26 Jun 1827, d. 8 Dec 1882 at
Chicago, IL
[dau of Rev. Charles Chase &
Eleanor Howk]
2. Rev. John Chase - d. 17 Aug 1854, aged 42y 6m 4d
[son of Joseph Chase & Jemima
Howk; he married Electa
Chase, dau of Rev. Charles Chase
& Eleanor Howk]
3. (broken, lying face up) Charles Emory, son of Rev. R.
H. & Almira
Bloomer - b. 10 Aug 1845, d. 19 Apr
1848
[son of Rev. Reuben H. Bloomer &
his second wife, Almira Chase,
dau of Rev. Charles Chase &
Eleanor Howk]
4. Lambert C., son of Charles & Eleanor Chase - d. 5
Oct 1817, aged
3y 1m 8d
[aka Charles Lambert Chase, son of
Rev. Charles Chase & Eleanor
Howk]
5. Cynthia Chase, wife of Rev. R. H. Bloomer of the N.
Y. Conference
d. 3 May 1842, aged 31y
[first wife of Rev. Reuben H.
Bloomer, dau of Rev. Charles Chase
& Eleanor Howk]
6. (lying face up) Eleanor Houck, wife of Rev. Charles
Chase - b. 3
Oct 1789, d. 10 Jun 1868
[dau of Lambert Howk & Irviny
Gass]
7. Rev. Charles Chase, Local Minister of the M. E.
Church Windham
Circuit - d. 24 Apr 1844, aged 53y
[son of Zephaniah Chase & his
second wife, Love West, widow of
Nathaniel Skiffe]
8. In Memory of Joseph Chase - d. 2 Jul 1831, aged 55y
7m
[son of Zephaniah Chase & his
first wife, Abigail Skiffe]
9. Jemima, wife of Joseph Chase - d. 16 Dec 1847, aged
60y 4m 18d
[dau of Lambert Howk & Irviny
Gass]
10. In Memory of Samuel Chase - d. 5 Feb 1832, aged 22y 9m 6d
[son of Joseph Chase & Jemima
Howk]
11. In Memory of Isaac Chase - d. 26 Mar 1835, aged 21y 5m
[son of Joseph Chase & Jemima
Howk]
12. Manly, son of Charles & Eleanor Chase - d. 29 Jun 1838, aged
15y
3m 6d
[son of Rev. Charles Chase &
Eleanor Howk]
13. (broken) West Chase - d. 22 May 1880, aged 83y
[son of Zephaniah Chase & his
second wife, Love West, widow of
Nathaniel Skiffe]
14. (broken through date of death)
Our Mother, Julia M. Newton, wife of
West Chase - b. 5 May 1800,
[d. 29 Nov 1879]
[dau of John Newton & Eunice
Bushnell]
Row 2, left to right
15. George Delamater - b. 16 Apr 1819, d. 11 Dec 1862
Laura E. Chase, his wife - b. 22 Jun
1824, d. 16 Sep 1908
[Laura Elizabeth Chase, dau of West
Chase & Julia M. Newton;
Laura married second, George Wells]
16. Newton Chase - d. 8 Jun 1880, aged 61y
[son of West Chase & Julia M.
Newton]
17. Lucina, wife of Newton Chase - d. 30 Jun 1845, aged 25y 6m 19d
[her maiden name was Baldwin; Newton
married second, Almira
Whitcomb]
Row 3, left to right
18. (front) Richard Howk - d. 6 May 1878, aged 85y 9m 26d
[son of Lambert Howk & Irviny
Gass]
(left) In Memory of Rebecca Chase,
wife of Richard Howk -
b. 18 Jun 1799, d. 15 Apr 1863, aged
63y 9m 27d
[dau of Zephaniah Chase & his
second wife, Love West, widow of
Nathaniel Skiffe]
(right) Abi Howk - b. 23 Sep 1820, d.
22 May 1888
[dau of Richard Howk & Rebecca
Chase]
19. (front) Whitcomb
(left) Luman Whitcomb - b. 11 Jun
1798, d. 22 Apr 1878
[son of Israel Whitcomb & Sally
Barber]
(right) Elizabeth Whitcomb - b. 14
Mar 1800, d. 5 Jul 1883
[dau of Benjamin Chase & Lydia
Skiff]
20. In Memory of Zephaniah Chase, b. at Edgartown, Marthas
Vineyard [MA]
25 Mar 1748, & settled here 1787,
d. 30 May 1828, aged 80y
[son of Abel Chase & Mercy
Mayhew]
21. In Memory of Love, wife of Zephaniah Chase, b. at Tisbury,
Marthas Vineyard [MA]
5 Oct 1756, d. 8 Jul 1832, aged 76y
[dau of Peter West & Elizabeth
Athearn-Chase; she was the widow
of Nathaniel Skiffe & the second
wife of Zephaniah Chase]
Sources:
Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase, compiled by
John Carroll Chase & George Walter Chamberlain (Derby, NH, 1928)
Huyck, Howk, Houck in America 1600's-1982, by Sylvia E. Wilson (Medina,
WA, 1982)
Newton Genealogy Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton of Sudbury
and Marlborough, Massachusetts 1638, compiled by Ermina Newton Leonard (De Pere,
WI, 1915)
The Whitcomb Family in America, by Charlotte Whitcomb (Minneapolis, MN, 1904)