Kitchen Burial Ground

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Kitchen Burial Ground

Historic Site #:	12-058 (Exists) Type: B1	Town:	Sodus
Site Name:	Kitchen Burial Ground	GPS Coordinates:	43.24017, -77.01148
Address:	7804 Glover Road Sodus New York just off North Geneva Road near railroad.
Description:
Small family burial site. This site is now overgrown but one tombstone was still visible circa 2010.

Julia Ann Garrison Austin Tombstone. Photo from Find A Grave web site

Historic narrative:

Below information from book, Arms’ Crossroads- Wallington , 1982. (page 121)

Kitchen Family Burial Plot

A small plot of land on the presently owned Ken Thebert property, east of the Railroad, north side of Glover Road is the burial plot of the Ben Kitchen family (1878). Five hundred acres of land was granted them by the King of England. The land has since been divided up into adjoining farms but the original stone home still stands behind the Thebert home.

A few weathered grave stones are still standing and readable. G. Kitchen-died June 13, 1872 – Matthew Kitchen June 3, 1867 - Sarah wife of Matthew Kitchen died November 1, 1855 age 77 years. Sarah wife of M. Kitchen died April 29, 1832. Julia Ann – wife of Thomas Austin died 1811.

Information from NYGEN web site:

Records indicate that there were 9 burials at this site.

Located on Glover Road, just off North Geneva Road near railroad.

Clark says: "The Kitchen private family burial place. This is situated on the old farm of Matthew Kitchen, north of Wallington and near the track of the Ontario and Southern Railroad. It is a handsome lot, slightly elevated, of sandy soil, dry and well adapted for its purpose. Like many other similar places it needs cleaning up. The myrtle and the rose bushes planted years ago by loving hands have long since wandered at their own sweet will over all the lot. All or nearly all graves seem to be marked with stones well preserved and standing erect."

2005 Driving Directions - Location was pointed out to me by a village employee of Sodus Point. North Geneva Rd. North over Rt 104. Right onto Glover Rd., and just over old tracks on the left. The Cemetery is about 300 feet back from the road. Completely overgrown and not visible from the road.

Julia Ann Garrison Austin (Tombstone photo above) is the daughter of Martin and Dorothy Garrison. She married Thomas Austin of England and they had four sons, George M. Austin, James Ward Austin, Martin G. Austin and Thomas William Austin. After she died, her husband married her sister, Cornelia and they moved to Valparaiso, Indiana and then on to Cascade County, Montana, where Thomas and Cornelia are buried in the Chesnut Valley Cemetery, Cascade, Montana

List of everyone buried here (from NYGEN web site):

AUSTIN
Juliana, wife of Thomas, dau. Martin and Dorothea GARRISON, Jan. 19, 1846, 29y 10m 27d
(Clark says Julia Ann)

"Remember me as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you will be
Prepare for death and follow me."

GIBSON
George, Jan. 28/29? (the date has been typed over, hard to decipher), 1830, 55y

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"

Mary, wife, March 7, 1863, 79y

"I've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when I first began."

GAFFIELD
Chas. H., son G. & M., Jan. 31, 1864, 15y 2m 25d

"Dearest son and brother thou hast left us
Here thy loss we deeply feel
But it's God who hast bereft us
He can all our sorrows heal."

KITCHEN
Matthew, June 3, 1867, 87y 10m 1d

"Gone but not forgotten"

Sarah, wife, Apr. 29, 1832, 53y

"Rest. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. May they rest from their labors and their work do follow them."

Sarah, wife, Nov. 1, 1855, 77y

"Quartered here by death
I still remain
But when the trumpet sounds
I'll rise and march again."

Dorothy, dau. D. & C., June 13, 1872, 31y 5m 22d

"A memory of a mother
That lies beneath the sod
We place a pure white marble
An emblem of her love.
But children when you visit
Oh harken to her word
Oh then prepare to follow her
And meet her with her God."

ANDREWS
Sarah Ann, wife of William, Sept. 25, 1857, 19y 6m 2d

"She has gone from among us and lonely and sad
Is the home of her parents, her presence made glad
Her pains are now over, she is at rest
Her body in the tomb, here spirit with the blest."

To find specific names of people who were buried here, click this link:

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2288342/memorial-search?page=1#sr-137042653

References:

Find A Grave web site

NYGEN web site

Arm's Crossroads - Wallington P 120 - 121