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Parker/Lemuel Durfee Cemetery

Historic Site #:09-063   (Exists)   Type: B1 Town:Palmyra
Site Name:Parker/Lemuel Durfee CemeteryGPS Coordinates:43.09378, -77.23226
Address:3152 Jeffery Road Palmyra NY
Description:

22 Memorials

2005 Driving Directions - Maple Ave out of Palmyra North. Third right onto Jeffry Rd. just before Walker Road on the Left is a steep embankment. The Cemetery is over embankment about 300 feet back. You must cross PRIVATE property.

The Durfees of Palmyra, NY were a most prominent family who came in the early 1790s from RI. It is notable that many, many of our early Ontario/Wayne County, NY ancestors were intermarried with the Durfee family for several generations


Lemuel Durfee (a Revolutionary War soldier) is buried here



 
Added by: Daryl VerStreate on 17 Aug 2009
 
Historic narrative:
Lemuel Durfee (a Revolutionary War soldier) is buried here. Read about him here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11447948/lemuel-durfee


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References:

NYGENWEB Cemetery web page

Find a Grave web site

Find a Grave Lemuel Durfee page