Romeyn or Ingersoll Cemetery

Historic Site #:	03-042 (Exists) Type: B1	Town:	Galen
Site Name:	Romeyn or Ingersoll Cemetery	GPS Coordinates:	43.048149, -76.948601
Address:	1080 Eyre Road Lyons New York
Description:
"Located about 500 yards east of old Romeyn homestead (built 1841), on the present Samuel Eyer farm, about two miles south-east of Lyons village, Galen Township, Wayne County, New York. [1952 owned by Polle]" 2005 Driving Directions - Rte. 31W out of Clyde. Take Left turn onto Gansz Rd. Follow to Eyre Rd. Make right onto Eyre Rd. Farm is located at bend in the Road. According to current owners they know of no cemetery on the property over the last 40 years. Did not receive permission to walk around and look for one. According to the cemetery files at the County Historian's, the cemetery is located to the left of the house, with about three graves. I saw none.

Historic narrative:
People buried here: John Brown, died March 29, 1843, aged 60 yrs Elizabeth, his wife, died July 22, 1834?, aged 50 yrs Ebenezer D. Brown, July 20, 1846, 26 yr 9 mo Small stone 1840 Marietta, wife of John Humphrey, June 9, 1831, aged 55 yr Stone of Dr. Ingersoll, now gone Small graves thought to be Romeyn children "A very strange plot, surrounded by a stone wall and has no entrance, very much overgrown." Read by Mrs. H. T. Jeffery, President. Brig. Gen. John Swift Chapter, N.S.U.S.D., 1812. Newark, New York. 1940.

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NYGENWEB Cemetery web page