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Tomlinson's Corners Cemetery
Mendon, New York

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Tomlinson's Corner Cemetery is located on the south side of Boughton Hill Road about ½ mile east of the Mendon-Ionia Road in the Town of Mendon, New York. This list takes into account two previous lists of inscrptions. One list by Anah B. Yates was in the Honeoye Falls Times on March 31, 1921. The other list was made by Mary T. Douglas of the Irondequoit Chapter of the D. A. R. in November 1930. This list was compiled by Richard T. Halsey in August 1988 with corrections sent by Diane Ham, Mendon Historian, in 2005.

Tomlinson Cem

The following was in the Honeoye Falls Times on March 31, 1921:

At Tomlinson's Corners is a small burying ground containing 65 stones. Standing alone is an old field stone with the initials "M. Y." This old stone marks the grave of Brigham Young's first wife. It has been desecrated by relic hunters to such an extant that the letters are now nearly obliterated. On what was known years ago as the Dunshee farm, in the south-east corner of the township there is a little range of hills that form a water shed for the creeks and brooks that flow into the larger streams that empty into Irondequoit Bay. Near the source of one of these streams is an opening formed like the letter V with the open end to the west, and at one end, covered now with willows, are 5 natural springs, that feed a brook that eventually reaches Irondequoit Creek. On this creek Brigham Young who came originally from Vermont, built a house and then a saw mill. He belonged to the Baptist Church before he joined the "Latter Day Saints" or Mormons, and the V on his farm with the opening towards the west, and the "living springs" were all regarded as "signs" after he became the successful conquerer of the Utah desert. He was a painter and glazier by trade and when the lumber business was dull he plied his trades and also manufactured chairs and baskets which he peddled thru the country. Benjamin and Rufus Park, from Berkshire Co., Mass., purchased land from Wm. Wadsworth in 1793 and became actual settlers in 1794, and John Park before 1801. Amaziah Park made his will March 14, 1822 and his wife's name was Mary. His heirs mentioned in the will are "heirs of eldest daughter, deceased, viz, Amaziah, Alvin, Hannah, and Ruth (no surname given)." "My son Benjamin's heirs, viz: Amaziah, Thomas and Calvin. My sons John, Amaziah, daughters, Hannah, Molly and Jemima." There was a Lt. Amaziah Park in Col. Douglass' Co. who joined the American Army in the State of New York in 1776. (From Conn. Men in the Am. Rev.)

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ALLEN Amarita, dau. of William; d June (7 or 20), 1824
   æ 15y
BARRETT Philander; d Oct. 29, 1814 æ 43y 6m 5d
CANFIELD Joseph; d July 9, 1859 æ 59y
CHAMBERLIN Malina, wife of P.; d May 27, 1844 æ 59y
CLAFFLIN Dea. Belamy; d Feb. 17, 1837 æ 42y
George S.; d Aug. (2 or 12), 1853 æ 60y
Henrietta, wife of John; d Feb. 7, 1841 æ 83y
CLAFLIN Henrietta, dau. of Belamy & Esther; d Nov. 27,
   1828 æ 2y
CLAFFLIN John; Cpl., Capt. Miller's Co., Col. Beard's
   Mass. Regt., Rev. War; b Apr. 8, 1754; d Mar.
   17, 1822 æ 69y
John Jr.; d Oct. 9, 1837 æ 52y
CULVER George, son of Orace; d Oct. 13, 1836 in his
14th yr.
DAVIS Lansing; d June 17, 1827 æ 35y [stone missing
   in 2004]
DeWOLF Abigail, wife of Edward; d Oct. 21, 1821 in her
   59th yr.
Candria; d July 26, 1806 in her 11th yr.
DICKERSON Lucy Ann, wife of Job L.; d July 22, 1837 æ 35y
DOLBEER Cutter; d Sept. 10, 1846 æ 77y 6m
Eli; d Apr. 29, 1859 æ 59y 10m 26d
Hellen Jemima, dau. of Charles & Bulah Ann; d
   Apr. 30, 1849 æ 1y 22d
infant dau. of John & Polly; d Apr. 1807
Jemima, wife of Cutter; d Apr. 12, 1846 æ 72y
   7m
John; d Nov. 7, 1838 in his 73rd yr.
John C., son of Eli & Laura; ; d Jan. 25, 1829
   æ 1y 6m
Polly, wife of John; d Nov. 4, 1825 in her 55th
   yr.
Polly, dau. of John & Polly; d 1827 æ 20y
ELDRED Phebe Southard, wife of Isaac G.; d Jan. (3 or
   13), 1871
FOOT Daniel L.; d Aug. 17, 1853 æ 62y 6m
GREER Charlotte M., wife of George; d June 20, 1878 æ
   57y 1m 21d
George; father; d Nov. 28, 1878 æ 56y 1m 20d
John; d Apr. 6, 1858 æ 65y
HUMMEL Liza; d Mar. 7, 1885 æ 11y
KIMBALL Anna, consort of Solomon F.; d Feb. 25, 1825 æ
   51y
Charles S.; d Jan. 16, 1830 æ 36y
Judith P., consort of Charles S. and dau. of
   James MARVIN; d June 20, 1824 æ 24y
Lydia, infant dau. of Charles & Judith; d Jan.
   20, 1822
Ruel Marvin, infant son of Charles & Judith; d
   in 1822
Solomon F.; d July 9, 1825 in his 51st yr. Also
   a new stone that says father of Heber C. and
   great-grandfather of Spencer W. KIMBALL, the
   12th President of Church of Jesus Christ of
   Latter-Day Saints.
KNAPP Betsey, wife of Amos and formerly wife of
   Lansing DAVIS; d May 15 18**
MARLATT Margaret, wife of Michael; d July 17, 1842 æ
   78y 2m
Michael; d July 4, 1837 æ 78y 15d
McCANN Ann, wife of Peter; d June 2, 1840
Peter; d Oct. 15, 1857 æ 56y
PARK Abner M., son of John & Mary; d July 4, 1819 in
   his 4th yr.
Amaziah; d May 10, 1824 in his 86th yr.
Amos D., son of Thomas & Almira; d Mar. 19,
   1851 æ 2y
Benjamin; d Jan. 16, 1810 in his 44th yr.
Charlotte, dau. of John & Experience; d Aug.
   20, 1815 in her 13th yr.
Esther Smith, 3rd wife of Capt. John; d Feb.
   15, 1855 æ 69y
Esther S., dau. of John & Experience; d June 8,
   1836 æ 8y 13d
Experience W., 1st wife of Capt. John; d Apr. 5,
   1813 in her 32nd yr.
Hannah, wife of Amaziah; d Jan. 10, 1811 in her
   79th yr.
infant dau. of John & Esther; d Mar. 14, 1823
Capt. John; War of 1812; d Feb. 26, 1861 æ 84y
Mary M., 2nd wife of Capt. John; d June 17,
   1821 in her 35th yr.
Polly, dau. of John & Experience; d Dec. 2,
   1805 æ 11m
Polly S., dau. of John & Experience; d June 12,
   1810 æ 3y 7m
Samuel, son of John & Mary; d July 2, 1819 æ
   14m
twin dau. of John & Esther; d Nov. 2, 1821
REED Mercy, wife of Thomas and formerly wife of
   Benjamin PARK; d Jan. 28, 1838 in her 53rd
   yr.
Thomas; d Aug. 21, 1855 æ 51
William; d Feb. 2, 1825 æ 86y
ST. JOHN Ann, wife of Frost; d June 20, 1847 æ 34y 6m 8d
SHULTERS Jacob; d Apr. 1, 1863 æ 90y 9m 17d
Maria, wife of Jacob; d 1850 æ 23y
Sarah, wife of Jacob; d Mar. 27, 1853 æ 66y
STIMSON Olive, 2nd wife of Stutley B.; [dates buried]
Polly. 1st wife of Stutley B.; [dates buried]
TOMLINSON George, son of John E. & Martha; d June 9, 1825
   æ 1y
John E.; d Mar. 29, 1845 æ 52y
M. Euretta, dau. of Edwin H. & Mary; d Apr. 17,
   1852 æ 10m
Maria, wife of John E.; mother; Aug. 15, 1802 -
   Aug. 15, 1875
WILLIAMS Dan; d Sept. 9, 1824 æ 58y
Lydia, wife of Nathaniel; [erected by her son
   Joseph]; d Feb. 28, 1818 æ 74y
Nathaniel; [erected by his son Joseph]; d Apr.
   7, 1814 æ 72y
Seth; d Apr. 10, 1828 in his 45th yr.
WILSON William; Co. H, 140th NY Vol.; d Apr. 14, 1888
   æ 65y
YOUNG Miriam Works, 1st wife of Brigham; b June 7,
   1806, Aurelius, NY; d Sept. 8, 1832, Mendon,
   NY; This stone placed by Genevieve Curtis,
   great-granddaughter, and her husband
   Alexander R. Curtis in Sept. 1948.

Miriam Young

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