Haight Cemetery, Town of Fenner, Madison County, NY (aka Bingley Road, foot of Bingley Hill, Delano Bacon Farm, Hughes, Cemetery 17?) Field Check by Daniel H. Weiskotten, April 26, 1994  MNI = 11, names = 4, 1842 - 1859 Old lists consulted: Gallup 1948 (with ammendments by Meyer, et al.), Hendrix c.1970? posted 7/19/1999   Click here to go back to the CAZENOVIA, FENNER, and NELSON ROOTSWEB Main Page  Click here to go back to the FENNER CEMETERY Main Page Comments or Questions??? - CONTACT ME            This small cemetery is in very poor shape.  It is located in an abandoned and overgrown field or pasture south of Bingley Road on a small, almost esker-like, gravel ridge which parallels Munger Brook.  The site is overgrown with vines and honeysuckles but the surrounding ground is somewhat grown up with oldfield grasses.  The stones, marble and unmarked fieldstones, are in two short rows with the headstone to the west and text facing west.  The narrow ridge upon which the graves are situated runs slightly north from east but the graves are aligned directly east-west.  The edges of the glacial ridge form the north and south sides of the plot while a plow berm marks the eastern border.  A large dead maple tree stands on the southern edge where the brow of the ridge begins to drop off.  The bounds of the cemetery are 30 feet by 30 feet.  Four graves (or gravestones) have names, five graves are marked by unmarked fieldstones, an unmarked marble footstone stands at the eastern edge of a shallow sunken area (the latter may be for one of the missing stones or for Lucius Haight), and two fieldstones which might be former grave markers were found just outside the northern edge of the plot.  The body of James Haight, died July 7, 1839, age 62 years 6 months 18 days (Tuttle) must lie here in an unnamed grave beside his wife Rebecca.
        The few stones found in 1994 had been moved around or were fallen.  Jeff Hughes, presently the caretaker at Evergreen Cemetery in Cazenovia, and a neighbor of this cemetery, says that several stones had been removed some time ago and used to cover a wet spot on a nearby path.  I have a vague recollection of seeing these stones, as Mr. Hughes recalls, but although I found the spot on the path, I could not could not relocate the stones.
        Three stones and fragments noted on the old list (made by Clezzie Gallup in 1948) were not found in 1994, these being the stones of Anna Marie Hall, an illegible stone of someone who died in 1842 at the age of 23, and a fragment which had illegible verse (I found a fragment without verse that might be the same).  One additional stone was found in 1994, being that of (Lucius?) Haight.   Those buried in the Haight Cemetery include:

 Haight, Amana, died January 25, 1852, age 39 years 10 months 19 days, (stone fragmented).
 Haight, (Lucius?), son of Andrew (J.?) and Sarah Haight, died June 14, 1844, age 1 year 1 month 26 days.
 Haight, Rebecca, wife of James Haight, died September 8, 1859, age 85 years 3 months 4 days.
 Hall, Anna Maria, wife of Hiram Hall, died July __, 1855, age not given, (stone not found in 1994, data from Gallup 1948).
 __________, __________, died 1842, age 23 years 10 months 25 days, (name not legible in 1948, stone not found in 1994, data from Gallup 1948).
 

END of Haight Cemetery list by Daniel H. Weiskotten