Climax Village
Cemetery

This cemetery is located in the Town of Coxsackie, about one quarter of a mile from the junction of Route 26 and Lime Kiln Rd, on the private property of the Boehm Family. Situated on the hillock behind the pond it is in poor condition. There are numerous fieldstones, some with inscriptions on them.

Transcription by Sylvia Hasenkopf on November 9, 2001 

1. Peter Ham, d. May 30, 1856, aged 42y3m

2. Siermont Hunt, d. May 10, 1866, aged 8w

3. (Josep)h Youmans, d. June 15, 1859, aged 63y

4. Anna, w/o Joseph Youmans, d. December 10, 1865, aged 73y

5. After Youmans, d. December 27, 1836, aged 70y

6. Elizabeth Youmans, w/o After Youmans, d. January 3, 1843, aged 72y8m

7. Hollet, s/o John and Olive Youmans, HOM, d. October 10, 1834, aged 9y2d

8. David Sniffen, d. March 4, 1849, aged 69y

9. Anna, w/o David Sniffen, d. June 9, 1861, aged 79y

10. In Memory of John P. Vosburgh, HOM, d. January 25, 1832, aged 47y

11. Fieldstone P.Y.

12. Fieldstone S.Y.

13. Fieldstone M.M.

14. Fieldstone A.M.

15. Olive Titus, 1842, aged 78y

16. Fieldstone, K.S. 1836

17. Footstone A.M.T.

18. Footstone S.B.K.

Postscript:

A transcription of the Climax Village Cemetery was located at the Vedder Memorial Library. It is undated and unsigned. According to this transcription, the following stones were located at the Cemetery, but are now missing:

1. In memory of Rozella, d/o John and Olive Youmans, d. September 11, 1833(?), aged 2y5m3d

2. Stephen B. Kline, d. February 8, 1861, aged 26y?

3. Margaret Jane Kline, d/o Stephen Kline, b. June 1832 (?), d. August 29, 1834

4. Anna, d. December 1, 1869, aged 7m12d

5. Top missing, d. February 28, 1800, aged 10m5d

6. S.F. Kline, d. May?

7. In Memory of Mary, w/o Ira Briggs, d. July 8, 1823, aged 29y

8. Anne Maria, d/o Nathaniel Travis, b. September 1801, d. January 1831

9. Angeline B., w/o Wm. Van den Burg, d. June 27, 1856, aged 17y

10. Maria L, 1852

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