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Roberts Cemetery, Town of Fenner, Madison County, NY
(aka Roberts Corner, Roy Cary farm, Mile Strip, Mile Strip-Sager, Sager farm)
Field Check by Daniel H. Weiskotten, (spring) 1994
 MNI = 41±, names = 26, 1813 - 1906
Old lists consulted: Tuttle no date, Gallup 1948
posted 11/26/1999
 
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        There are two old lists for this cemetery, an undated one made by the Skenendoah Chapter, DAR, and second by Clezzie Gallup about 1948, and a third by Robert V. Moyer in 1963.  When these three lists were compared a large number of discrepancies were found between them.  When the field check was made in 1994 an incredible number of mistakes were found on each of the old lists and two more stones were found.  Several stones on the Gallup list are actually to be found in another cemetery!  No pattern of mistakes was apparent from my comparisons, each list having some mistakes and only that of Robert V. Moyer being somewhat unreliable.
        I was shown the cemetery by Bruce Cary who lives across the road and who is the brother of Russ Cary the property owner.  The cemetery is located at the top of a westward-pointing gravelly knoll.  Although the point of land is triangular, the cemetery does not exactly follow the landform.  The east and south sides are straight with a right angle corner, and the west and north sides follow the edge of the land.  A ridge of soil along the south and east suggests that a fence had stood along these sides and the surrounding land was tilled.  The cemetery measures 50 feet on the east and about 90 feet on the south, but because the west and north sides are irregular (and heavy undergrowth prevents accurate measurement) the area of the site is only approximately calculated at 3500 square feet.
        A large boulder, which Bruce Cary likened to the Oneida stone as it seems shaped like a turtle, is on the northeast part of the site (large stones such as this are found in many places in the region and are not necessarily "Oneida Stones").  A rectangular pile of stone, indicating a stone covered burial spot, measuring 4 x 8 feet is located on the south side 30 feet from the southeast corner (there are no markers with this feature).  The graves are arranged in rows that are about ten feet apart with the headstones on the west facing west.  Because of the heavy underbrush it was difficult to keep track of the graves that were marked only by field stones, there being 15 to 20 in number.  Several sunken areas were seen indicating graves, one of which Mr. Cary told me was of recent origin (someone trying to dig up a grave).
        Three stones from the old lists were not found in 1994: Lousia Anders, ______ Roberts, and Mariah Young.  Two additional stones were found in my 1994 survey: Greene C. Brownson and Calpurnia C. Rice.  A broken marble stone was found standing at northwest corner, with the name gone, and only "daughter of" still legible.  This may be a fragment of the stone for Louisa Anders or __________ Roberts.
 

Those buried in the Roberts Cemetery include:

Anders, Louisa, daughter of Hiram and Ann Anders, died March (12 / 19), (1810 / 1840), age (5 / 6) months (1 / 4) days, (stone not found in 1994), (Bruce Cary has foot stone "L.A." in his garage).
Brownson, Greene C., son of Tyronll (?) and Emilia (?) Brownson, died April 9, 1817 (?) age 7 years _____.
Butler, Cleantha J., daughter of George R. and Thankful Butler, died October 6, 1847, age 10 years 1 month 13 days.
Fort, Hannah M., daughter of John and (Annis / Ann) Fort, (died September 1, 18__ / 1840, age (3 / 8) years 10 months), (stone mostly illegible in 1994, only "Hanna M." and "daughter of John and Ann" readable).
Fort, Margaret, wife of John Fort, died March 30, 1846, age 70 years.
Frisbie, Catherine M., daughter of Samuel and Catherine Hess Nichols, wife of Samuel Frisbie, born 1825, died 1903, (age not given).
Frisbie, Samuel, born 1817, died 1904, (age not given).
Harvey, Persyann, wife of J.H. Harvey, died February 2, 1854, age 26 years 6 months 28 days.
Hess, (maiden name), see Catherine M. Frisbie.
Nichols, (maiden name), see Catherine M. Frisbie.
Nichols, Catherine, wife of Samuel Nichols, born 1783, died 1869, (age not given).
Nichols, Samuel, born 1779, died 1871, (age not given).
Rice, Calpurnia C., wife of John R. Rice, died July 14, 1852, age 20 years 7 months.
Roberts, ______, daughter of Alvory and Betsey Roberts, died 1832, age 20 years 10 months 2 days, (stone not found in 1994, data from Gallup list).
Roberts, Alvory, died February 14, 1849, age 58 years 2 months 7 days.
Roberts, Ella L., daughter of Seth and Mary C. Roberts, died September 3, 1852, age 6 years 10 months 8 days.
Roberts, Huldah L., daughter of Alvory and Betsey Roberts, (died October 9, 1842 / February 11, 1813, age 15), (date of death and age rotted away in 1994, not 1813?).
Roberts, Lindsley A., son of Alvory and Betsey Roberts, died October 14, 1835, age 18 years 9 months 11 days.
Roberts, Lurancy, daughter of Alvory and Betsey Roberts, died August 26, 1855, age 22 years 21 days.
Roberts, Permelia, daughter of Alvory and Betsey Roberts, died May 1, 1842, age 20 years 8 months 4 days.
Roberts, Sabrina K., daughter of Alvora and Betsey Roberts, died January 23, 1843, age 27 years 7 months.
Roberts, Seth, died March 2, 1856, age 37 years.
Wilbur, Gideon, died March 5, 1864, age 60 years.
Wilbur, Henry D., son of Gideon and Belinda Wilbur, died October 6, 1849, age 20 years.
Wilbur, Mandana, daughter of Gideon and Belinda Wilbur, died October 8, 1849, age 1 year 9 months.
Young, Henry W., son of Daniel and Mariah Young, died October 16, 1852, age 10 months.
Young, Mariah, wife of Peter Young, died August 10, 1857, age 66 years, (stone not found in 1994).
Young, William P., son of Daniel and Mariah Young, died February 18, 1841, age 11 months.
 

END of Roberts Cemetery list by Daniel H. Weiskotten