Old Davis Cemetery

West Union Twp., Steuben Co., NY

WU5

Listing as of 23Jun1990 - by Judy Allen Cwiklinski

Ina G. Church copied  most of the below around 1953.  Cemetery location Lot 90 - District #6 on a Old Atlas Map of West Union.  - I have made some corrections to the below.   The bodies of the below were most likely moved because of the location and the general bad shape of this cemetery . There are several graves which are marked by fieldstones only - no data known of the unmarked persons buried in this cemetery - as to whether or not they were moved and/or when moved if they ever did get markers.

I visited this cemetery June 23rd, 1990.  It is located up on top of a hill amongt a stand of trees.  I took my 2 children and my mother on this trek.  We walked up through a cow-pasture to get up there.  I might also add that there is poison ivy, a couple old lilac trees and myrtle scattered through-out <My mother had a memorable event with the poison ivy.>.  

This abandoned cemetery is located in the North East corner of West Union township, Steuben Co., NY - near the West Union/Troupsburg township line, adjoining the William Harkenrider farm <north> - off of the Rexville - Troupsburg Rd - which is County Route 117.  

All of the below bodies were moved to what is known as WU1

David Davis	15 Jan 1825	age 56
Elizabeth Davis	20Nov1854	age 85	Maiden name: Strait - born R.I.
James A. Davis	#1810	1864	#- b.1801?-by family records
Almira Davis	1816	1890	Wife of James A. Davis
Jane Bowman	1842	1922	d/of James A. & Almira Davis
Cinderella Davis	1852	1938	w/of Gaylord Davis (1st cousin)
Margaret Davis	13Mar1846	age 1 mo.	twin - d/of Isiah & Hannah (Erskine) Davis *b. 1836 say's Whitney records
Martha Davis	20Feb1846	age 7 ds	# Mary? twin - d/of Isiah & Hannah (Erskine) Davis *b. 1836 say's Whitney records
David Davis*	13Nov1857	age 2-11-2
Henry B. Baker	16Jan1861	age 73 & 9ds	1855 Census he says he was born in Delaware County
Elizabeth Baker	4 Oct1850	age 50-6-26	wife of H.B. Baker
Mary Baker	14Feb1860	age 60ys	wife of H.B. Baker
Mary Eliza Baker	30Apr1843	age 21-1-16	1st. wife of H.B.Baker
Drucilla Cordelia Baker	13Aug1851	age 11mo & 6ds	dau./of Henry & Electa J. (Covert) Baker
W.B. Baker			no data
Tamar A. Baker	29Sept1859	age 1 yr & 7 mo	dau/of D.M. & S.B.(David Maxon & S. Barbara (Davis) Baker - they were 1st cousins)
Leonard Straight	12Apr1863	age 3 yrs	son of T & L. (Thomas & Lydia (Baker) Straight)
Infant - Shaul	24Feb1860	age 2 weeks	son of P & H (Phillip & Hannah (Baker) Shaul)
Michael Marshall	10Mar1863	age 54-7-10
Hannah Marshall	4 Oct1866	age 73-7-21	wife of Michael Marshall
Samuel Banks			Stone damaged & Illegible
Sarah Banks	26Apr1879	age 71-5-9	wife of Samuel Banks
Arminda Ordiway	12Jun1875	age 30-10-15	wife of John J. Ordiway
Clarissa Failing	22Jul1874	age 43 yrs	wife of P.W. Failing
Samantha Whiteman	28Feb1877	age 60yr & 4mo
John D. Gilbraith	3May1871	age 17-11-2

Note -- I have been told that most of the bodies have been re-interred into other cemetery's in the surrounding area.

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Last modified Friday, 07-May-1999 00:21:50 MDT

Originally posted to the web - 9/19/1998 - Reposted to the Steuben Co., NY Genweb page 5/7/1999

by: Judy Allen Cwiklinski [email protected]

Whitesville, NY 14897