Peter
Van Orden Rural Cemetery
(1810-1887)
Originally published in Volume 10, Number 4 of Greene Genes: A
Genealogical Quarterly About Greene County, New York (ISSN 0898-9974) on pages
129 and 130. Reprinted with permission from the compiler, editor and publisher,
Patricia Morrow, PO Box 116, Maplecrest, NY 12454-0116. e-mail: [email protected]
The Peter Van Orden Rural Cemetery is located along State Route 23 in the Town of Windham, Greene County, NY. It is one-tenth of a mile west of the intersection of State Route 23 and Old Road, near East Windham. The cemetery sits on a small hill in a wooded area a short distance from the road. It is only visible from the highway when the leaves are off the trees. It is well maintained. These stones were read by Patricia Morrow, the Windham Town Historian, on September 28, 1997. All rows were read from right to left starting with the gravestone closest to the entrance. There are many uninscribed fieldstones in this cemetery. Stones inscribed with just initials have been omitted from this transcription.
Abbreviations:
b. - born; Capt. - Captain; Co. - Company; d - day(s); d. - died; dau - daughter;
m - month(s); N. Y. V. - New York Volunteers; VA - Virginia; y - year(s)
Row 1
1. Martin, son of John H. & Elizabeth P. Pierce, d. 6 Jan 1887, aged
9m
2. Nellie, wife of James Pierce, d. 5 Sep 1876, aged 70y
Row 2
3. Caroline, d. 19 Sep 1858, aged 22y
Delia E., d. 20 Jun 1860, aged 16y
children of James & Nellie Pierce
4. John B., son of John & Elizabeth Hollenbeck, d. 18 Sep 1859, aged
3y9m18d
Row 3
5. Hannah, wife of William Williams, d. 22 May 1859, aged 88y9m2d
6. Sarah E., dau of Henry & Martha A. Drace, d. 22 Jan 1858, aged 11m
Row 4
7. [note discrepancies with next stone]
Mary, wife of Peter Vanorden, d. 28 Mar 1849, aged
74y4m
8. [this is a new gravestone, note discrepancies with previous stone]
(front) Innkeepers
Mary Crooker Carbine, b. Rye, Westchester [County], New
York,
31 Jul 1774, d. 29 Mar 1848
Peter Van Orden, b. Leeds, Green[e County], New York,
19 Feb
1761, d. 15 Jul 1841
children William, John, Nancy, Julia Ann, Frances
Fanny, Margaret
Melinda, Maria, David
(back) Peter Van Orden Rural Cemetery
first wife Rebecca Freleigh Wood
children: Polly, Sara, Peter
second wife Neeltje Dumond
children: Elizabeth, Tryntje, Rachel, Jan
children of Mary Crooker and Zebulon Carbine: Horace, Elanor,
Edmond, Francis
[The information on this gravestone does not agree with
the Van
Orden family record as presented on page 442 of the History
of Greene
County, New York, with Biographical Sketches of Its
Prominent Men,
published by J. B. Beers & Co. in 1884; reprinted by
Hope Farm Press in
1969; nor does it agree with records of the
Catskill Reformed Dutch Church.
According to those sources, Peter
Van Orden's first wife was Neeltje Dumond, his
second wife was
Rebecca Freligh, and his third wife was Mary Crocker, Crooker or
Cruger, the widow of Zebulon Carbine.]
9. Peter Van Orden, d. 15 Jul 1841, aged 80y5m
Erected in memory of this much lamented father by David
Van
Orden.
10. [hard to read] Hannah E., dau of David & Polly M. Van Orden, d.
7
Jun 1849, aged 5m
Row 5
11. Capt. Isaac Haight, d. 29 Mar 1810, aged 44y
Row 6
12. Robert Hapeman, [d. 7 Feb 1863, but no date of death is given on
this
gravestone] died in the Regimental Hospital near Falmouth,
VA. A member of Co.
K, 120th N. Y.V., aged 19y2m14d
13. George Hapeman, d. 7 Apr 1863, aged 52y8m20d
14. Sally, wife of George D. Hapeman, d. 27 May 1860, aged 49y2m7d
15. Abner Newcomb, d. 30 Jun 1844, aged 62y6m
16. [broken stone, top missing, in 1984 the following information was
still intact:
Lois, wife of Abner Newcomb, d. 26 Apr
1848, aged 65y1m
17. Alice R., dau of Henry & Mary J. Pellham, d. 11 Aug 1860, aged
1y4m
18. Sarah M., dau of A. & Elanor Conley, d. 6 Jul 1861, aged 5y10m
19. Libbie M., dau of A. & Elanor Conley, d. 9 Jul 1861, aged 8y18d