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CARMEL
- Gilead Burying Ground
- Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County"
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter, 17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
- See Reynolds below.
- Raymond Cemetery
- The Methodist Episcopal Church Burying Grounds
- Lake Mahopac Methodist Church and Burying Ground
- Union Valley Cemetery and Chapel
- Red Mills Baptist Church Burying Ground
- Red Mills Presbyterian Church Burying Ground
- Carver Family Burying Ground
- See Frost below.
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter— 17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
- See Horton below
- Sweeney Cemetery, Lake Mahopac
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter —17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
KENT
- Baily Burial Ground
- Williams Burial Ground
- See Frost below
- First Baptist Church (also lists some burials)
- Halstead Union Burial Ground
- Knapp Burial Ground
- Kent Cliffs Cemetery
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter —17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
- Parker Burial Ground
- Smalley Burial Ground
- Kent and Fishkill Baptist
- Russell-Mead Cemetery
- Disbrow Burial Ground
- Barrett-Ballard Burial Ground
- County Farm Burial Ground
- Baptist Church, Farmer's Mills (also lists some burials)
- Second Baptist Church of Kent (also lists some burials)
- Union Cemetery Association
PATTERSON
- Baptist Church Burying Ground
- Rock Church (formerly Towner family burying ground)
- Christ Church Burying Ground
- Patterson Village Cemetery
PHILIPSTOWN
- South Highland Methodist Church Burying Ground
- St. Philip's Church in the Highlands Burying Ground
- Cemeteries at Cold Spring
- St. Mary's Church in the Highlands, Cold Spring
- See Floyd-Jones below.
PUTNAM VALLEY
- Travis Burying Ground
- Village Cemetery, Adams Corners
- Carmel Valley Burial Ground
- Selleck Family Plot
SOUTHEAST
- Old Milltown Burying Ground
- Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County"
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter —17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
- ___. "Inscriptions in Milltown Cemetery, Southeast, NY", NY Genealogical & Biographical Record, July 1907, pp. 273.
- Sears Burying Ground, Doansburg
- Pelletreau's "History of Putnam County"
- Dutchess Cty. Gen. Society Newsletter —17/2, Winter 1989; See PERSI
- St. Lawrence O'Toole cemetery
MISCELLANEOUS
If any of the materials have been filmed and are available through an LDS Family History Center, the film number has also been included below. To check the complete entry from the Locality Catalog or to see if any new materials have been made available, check the Catalog on the FamilySearch web site at https://familysearch.org/
- Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie
- Gravestone Inscriptions of Putnam County, NY , 1750-1900. [FHL US/CAN Film #0930226, items 4-5] Original manuscript held by Adriance Memorial Library.
- Gravestone Inscriptions of Westchester County, NY. [FHL US/CAN Film #0930817, items 7-10] Includes church cemetery on state road, No. Highlands, Putnam County. Original manuscript held by Adriance Memorial Library.
- Brinkman, William
- A Memorial, records of early burial places on the farms in the town of Guilderland and surrounding towns. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017678, item 3] Includes cemeteries on farms near town of Settlers Hill in Putnam County among farms in other counties. [Altamont, NY: (s.n.), 1940]
- Buys, Barbara S.
- Old Gravestones of Putnam County, [Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc, 1973]
- Chorley, Edward Clowes
- History of St. Philip's Church in the Highlands, Garrison. [FHL US/CAN Film #1320756, item 1] Includes registers of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and funerals, circa 1808-1911. [New York: E.S. Gorham, 1912] Also see a digital copy of the book on the Internet Archives.
- DAR: Daughters of the American Revolution
- Historical records of Enoch Crosby Chapter: Putnam, Dutchess and Westchester counties.[FHL US/CAN Film #0860321, items 4-6] Includes bible records for families of Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester counties; cemetery records; transcripts of church records, and more.
- Putnam County, NY, Cemetery Records. [FHL US/CAN Film #0860321, item 3] Includes Baptist Church Ground, Carmel; Rural Fishkill Cemetery; Fowler Plot; Private Ground near Ludingtonville; Baptist Church Ground, Ludingtonville; Church Burial yard at Towners Corners; Small burial plot in Fredericksburg; Sears Burial Ground at Doansburg; Burial Ground at Milltown. Original manuscript held by DAR Library, Washington.
- Dutchess County Genealogical Society (See PERSI for instructions on how to order copies or contact the Society directly.)
- Bailey Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Baptist Yard Four Corners Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Carver Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Doanesburgh Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Gravestones, Boyds Corners — 6/1, Fall 1978s & 6/2, Winter 1978
- Hitchcock Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Kent Cliffs Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Milltown Cemetery — 17/2, Winter 1989,
- Old Baptist Burying Ground, Carmel — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Old Gilead Burying Ground — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Old Gravestones, 19/4 — Summer 1992
- Patterson Cemetery, 17/2 — Winter 1989
- Putnam Burial Index, 1/2 — September 1973
- Sweeney Cemetery, Lake Mahopac — 17/2, Winter 1989
- Floyd-Jones, Elbert
- St. Mary's Church in the Highlands, Cold Spring. [FHL US/CAN Film #1550621] Includes records of baptisms, confirmations, marriages and burials, 1840-1920.
- Frost, Josephine C.
- Inscription from ten cemeteries in Putnam County. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017862, item 1] Contains an index and includes the following: Barrett Cemetery, Bailey Cemetery, Williams Cemetery, Crane Cemetery, Cole Cemetery, Carver Cemetery, King Cemetery, Pardee Cemetery, Hughson Cemetery and Patterson Village Cemetery. Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Frost, Josephine C. [Mrs. Samuel Knapp Frost]
- Putnam County cemetery inscriptions self-published 1910. Includes the following cemeteries:
- Baptist Church, Carmel
- Baptist Cemetery, Kent Cliffs
- Halstead Cemetery, Carmel
- Baptist Cemetery, Ludingtonville
- Small Cemetery west of Ludingtonville
- Raymond Cemetery, Carmel
- Gilead Cemetery, Carmel
- Kelley Cemetery, Carmel
- Horton, William P., compiler.
- Putnam County Cemeteries. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017128, item 36-38] Includes Barrett Cemetery, South Kent Cliffs; Bodies taken from the Carver cemetery near Coles Miles about 1870 when clearing basin for reservoir; Cemetery at Hortontown. Original manuscript held by NY State Library in Albany.
- Putnam County, NY, Cemetery Inscriptions. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017862, item 5-6] Includes Baptist Church Cemetery, Mahopac Falls. Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Putnam County, NY, Cemetery Records. Includes indexes. [FHL US/CAN Film #0860321, item 1-2] Original manuscript held by DAR Library, Washington.
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- Brewster, NY, Cemetery Inscriptions. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017862, item 8] Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Cemetery and Church Records in Westchester County. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017136, item 8] Includes cemeteries in Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Sparta, and Lake Mahopac. Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Four Cemeteries in Putnam County. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017862, item 2-4] Includes two cemeteries from Cold Spring; the Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Mahopac Falls; and the Methodist Church Cemetery, Union Valley. Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Inscriptions from cemeteries in the town of Southeast, Putnam County, NY. [FHL US/CAN Film #0017862, item 7] Original manuscript held by New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Pelletreau, William Smith
- History of Putnam County. This book has also been filmed by the Family History Library and the microfilm can be borrowed for viewing at your local Family History Center [US/CAN film area #0874490, item 1]. Some sections of this book have been transcribed and placed on this Putnam web site as can be seen from some of the above entries. To see the entire table of contents for this book, click here. [Note: A digital copy of this book can also be viewed and downloaded for free from the Internet Archives.]
- Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson
- Gilead Cemetery Inscriptions. [US/CAN film area #0931485, item 4]
- Wheeler, Glendon E., compiler.
- Index of Gravestones for the People of Putnam County, NY. [c.1997]
WEB LINKS
- Putnam Graveyards — this site only lists burials prior to 1912.
- Find A Grave web site
- The Political Graveyard
- Funeral Home Listing's by State: New York http://newyork.obituaries.funeral.com/
- A number of articles concerning Putnam cemeteries have been published over the years by the Dutchess County Genealogical Society newsletter. Click the following link for a listing of them in PERSI along with a brief explanation of PERSI.
- The Tombstone Transcription Project
NY Putnam County GenWeb
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nyputnam/
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