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. |
Sarah Kitchen (wife of Mathew Kitchen) Tombstone 1982. Photo from Arm's Crossroads - Wallington P 120 | Julia Ann Garrison Austin Tombstone. Photo from Find A Grave web site |
Photo from NYSGEN web site |
Historic narrative: | |||||
Below information from book, Arms’ Crossroads- Wallington , 1982. (page 121)
Records indicate that there were 9 burials at this site. Located on Glover Road, just off North Geneva Road near railroad. 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 "Remember me as you pass by GIBSON "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 GAFFIELD "Dearest son and brother thou hast left us KITCHEN "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 Dorothy, dau. D. & C., June 13, 1872, 31y 5m 22d "A memory of a mother ANDREWS "She has gone from among us and lonely and sad 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 |