Plymouth - Tyson Cemetery

Tyson-Pollard Cemetery also known as Tyson Pond Cemetery, is located on the east side of Scout Camp Road on a steep hillside opposite the former camp, now the Coolidge Camp State Park, on Echo Lake. The land was given to the town by Moses Pollard, as a replacement for the Kingdom Cemetery because the ground there was so rocky that it was very hard to dig graves. The first burial there was in 1817; the last in 1954. Due to restoration work by Mr. Leon Parkhurst, local representative of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association, the cemetery is in very good condition. There are roughly 150 graves in the cemetery, but Mr. Parkhurst believes that there are other burials in this cemetery for which no markers survive.

Thanks to Charlotte Davis, host of the Bethel town genealogy site, for these photos, taken on her visit to the area in early Spring 2002.

This inventory is primarily from Plymouth burials before 1870, from 1919 gravestone readings by Floyd Hadley, which is in the Plymouth town clerk's office, and is available on microfilm through the Family History Library (film #28688).
Those gravestone transcriptions were done under Act No. 92 of 1919, "An Act to Provide for the Completion of the Vital Records of the State and to Require Town Clerks to Transmit Certain Records to the Secretary of State." That Act directed the Secretary of State to determine which town's records had not yet been deposited with the state, and provide forms for transcription; the towns were to transcribe and send to the state all birth, marriage, and death records in possession of the town or churches, which had not already been submitted. If the town death records prior to 1870 were incomplete, "The selectmen....shall, before October 1, 1919, cause to be copied at the expense of the town under the direction of the secretary of state, the inscription on all gravestones in their town erected to the memory of any person who died prior to 1870 so far as relates to name of deceased, date of death, age or date of birth, if given, and the name of the cemetery where buried and shall cause such records to be recorded in the town records." The Act further provided that records were to be made available for reference; the effective date was 26 March 1919.

Information in [square brackets] is added from a list of repair work done in 2000 by Leon Parkhurst, and a full inventory done by him in 2002.

Information in {curly brackets} was added by Nancy Wygant, from transcriptions of her relatives' gravestones, July 2001, or by other researchers who have contacted me.

Name	Date of Death	Age

Allen, Cyrus	30 May 1851	54 y
Allen, Nancy	14 June 1848	14 y 5 m 19 d
Allen, Hollis	2 June 1833	5 y 2 m 2 d
Allen, George	1859	19 y
[Allen, Wallace	1864]
[Allen, Sally	1891	87 y]
Archer, Anna [daughter of Wm. & Martha Archer]	21 June 1864	5 y
Archer, Hannah M. [daughter of Lewis & Mary Archer]	8 May 1851	4 y 6 m
Archer, Jabez P. [son of Lewis and Mary Archer]	31 Dec 1849	5 y 2 m
[Archer, Lewis	1874	64 y]
[Archer, Lucinda	1896	81 y]
Archer, Lucius W. [son of Lewis & Mary Archer]	16 Nov 1864	16 y
[Archer, Mary	1887]
Archer, Nemmie	20 Apr 1859	3 y 6 m
Archer, Norman	2 Nov 1866	22 y
Archer, Otis	7 Jan 1869	56 y
[Archer, William	2 May 1891	57 y 5 m]

[Baldwin, Abigail, wife of Thomas	2 May 1876	79 y]
Baldwin, Abby P.	27 Sept 1848	18 y
Baldwin, Charlie M.	16 Nov 1864	3 y 9 m
[Baldwin, Edwwar	5 Mar 1836 - 14 Jan 1914]
Baldwin, Flora May	11 May 1862	11 d
Baldwin, M. Athelia	16 Mar 1832	5 y
Baldwin, Moses P. [killed at Battle of Gettysburg PA]	2 July 1863	29 y
Baldwin, Thomas (Inf.)	24 Apr 1829
[Baldwin, Rev. Thomas	2 May 1878	80 y]
Barrett, Abigail [wife of Roland Barrett]	20 May 1848	70 y
Barrett, Robert	13 Oct 1862	84 y
Boynton, Amos	19 July 1865	91 y
Boynton, Isaiah	12 June 1851	81 y
[Boynton, Hannah, relict of Dea. Isaiah	13 June 1872	94 y]
Boynton, Lois	28 Aug 1843	8 y 5 m
Brewer, Israel [J. son of L.C. & S.B. Brewer]	20 Mar 1834	2 y
Brown, Betsey [daughter of Israel & Sally Brown]	2 Apr 1826	20 y 7 m
Brown, Edward A. [son of Isaiah & Jane Brown]	3 Oct 1831	3 wk 4 d
Brown, Israel P. Esq.	9 Nov 1867	86 y 7 d
Brown, Mary W.	1 Jan 1844	23 y
Brown, Priscilla	5 Jan 1835	16 y
Brown, Priscilla {Putnam, wife of Adam Brown}	6 Oct 1837	86 y {b. 22 Aug 1751}
	{Information contributed by Doni Wright}
Brown, Sally [Briggs, wife of Israel P.]	31 July 1826	41 y 8 m
Brown, Sally	22 Dec 1866	86 y 3 m 26 d
[Buswell, Asaph	1818 - 1872]
[Buswell, Ezra	20 June 1828 - 24 Oct 1909]
Buswell, John	21 Apr 1863	88 y 10 m
Buswell, Lidia [wife of Ezra]	26 June 1859	26 y
[Buswell, Mary Ann, wife of Ezra	25 Feb 1833 - 21 Jan 1891]
[Buswell, Oscar	1854 - 1935]
Buswell, Sara [Horton, wife of John]	8 Aug 1868	86 y 4 m

[Carlisle, Ella	1855-1899]
[Carlisle, Henry - Maria - Lewis A.]
[Carlisle, Leander	1850-1922]
[Carlisle, Lewis	1885-1886]
[Colby, Charles drowned in lake	12 July 1896	24 years]
[Colby, Francis	1845 - 1925]
Colby, John H.	Mar 1863	30 y
Crandall, Abby F.	27 July 1861	18 y
[Crosby, Mary	1887	96 y]
[Crosby, Patrick	1875	80 y]

Davison, Aaron	17 Oct 1831	27 y
Davison, Elizabeth [wife of John Davison]	31 Mar 1828	47 y
Davison, Lucy	25 Oct [1838]	29 y
Davison, Stephen W. [son of John Davison]	24 Apr 1817	1 y 1 m 8 d
Dunlap, Louisa	30 July 1863	73 y
Dunlap, Robert	15 Jan 1831	51y

Farnsworth, Harriet S. {wife of Emerson Farnsworth of Wisconsin}	19 Oct 1846	36 y
Ford, Angeline P. [daughter of L.W. N.G. Ford]	7 Nov 1844	5 y

Gilson, Charlotte	14 Dec 1840	31 y
[Gilson, Elhanat	1881	71 y]
Gilson, Elizabeth	3 Feb 1864	55 y
Gilson, John H.	20 May 1863	16 y
[Ghowen, Sara Carlisle	1876-1915]

Hosley, Asa H.	6 Feb 1866	46 y 7 m
Hosley, Emily [wife of A.H. Hosley]	27 Oct 1865	42 y
Hosley, Emily {daughter of Asa & Emily Hosley}	12 Aug 1846	2 y 7 m
Hosley, Harrison H. {son of Asa & Emily Hosley}	21 Aug 1862	1 m
Hosley, Christiana E. {daughter of Asa & Emily Hosley}	4 May 1866	17 y 7 m
Hosley, Lyman E. {son of Asa & Emily Hosley}	23 Dec 1865	1 y 11 m

[Johnson, Alphoson]
[Johnson, Flora	1892]
[Johnson, J.P.F.	1899	79 y]
[Johnson, Lucy	1845-1871]
[Johnson, Moses	1870	82 y]
[Johnson, Polly	1887	90 y]
Johnson, Sylvester	3 Oct 1859	20 y 2 m 3 d
Jones, Goodwin [son of A.H. and L.G. Jones]	7 Sept 1829	10 wks
[Josselyn, Lewis	1889	84 y]
Judd, Almira	23 June 1868	63 y

Killom, George	5 June 1869	about 70 y
Knight, Stedman	10 Apr 1864	57 y 6 m
Knight, Lucinda M.	30 July 1863	13 y 8 m
Knight, Orinda M.	17 Sept 1865	17 y 5 m 13 d

Lesslie, Cyrus {son of John & Polly Lesslie}	22 Dec 1848	36 y
[Lesslie, Elizabeth	1876	49 y]
{Lesslie, Elvira S. {wife of Cyrus}	22 Sept 1894	84 y}
Lesslie, George [son of Cyrus & Elvira Lesslie]	29 Aug 1840	2 y 2 m
[Lesslie, Horace	1890	71 y]
Lesslie, John	2 Apr 1866	85 y
Lesslie, Polly [wife of John Lesslie]	9 July 1868	78 y

[Macuin, Daniel	1877 - 1954]
[Macuin, Betsey	1908	63 y]
Merrill, Arabell daughter of W.T. & R.P. Merrill]	26 June 1852	10 d
[Merrill, R.P.]
[Merrill, Rebeca	1883	70 y]
Merril, Wm. Henry	24 Nov 1863	21 y 1 d
[Merrill, Wm. T.	1878	64 y]
Morse, Catherine F.	22 Aug 1863	25 y 3 m
Morse, Lucinda E.	22 Aug 1863	2 y 4 m
[Mucuin, Betsey]
[Mucuin, Daniel	1897	66 y]
[Mucuin, Jane B.	1889	8 y]

[Newton, Myrle	1895-1910]
[Newton, Perrle	1908-1911]

Parker, George	14 May 1864	26 y
[Parker Henry]
Parker, Lizzie	12 Feb 1867	36 y
[Parker, Maria]
[Parker, Violae	1848-1922]
[Parker, William	1845-1910]
Pettigrew, Esther	22 June 1855	63 y
Pettigrew, Clara S. [daughter of E. Pettigrew]	31 Jan 1848	2 y
Pettigrew, Dea. J.	25 Sept 1864	85 y
Pettigrew, Ruth [wife of Dea. Pettigrew]	15 May 1831	62
[Pollard, Amos	1874	72 y]
Pollard, Clara S. [daughter of Amos & Mary Pollard]	22 Dec 1844	5 y 2 m 3 d
Pollard, Mary Ann	26 Nov 1855	50 y 2 m 20 d
Priest, Phebe	6 June 1862	61 y

[Rist, Phebe	1862]
Root, Sabra J.	23 June 1855	18 y

[Spear, Martha	1866	32 y]
Spear, Phineas	6 July 1843	54 y
[Spear, Fidelia, wife of Phineas	18 Jan 1891	90 y]
[Stickney, Addie	1856-1930]
[Stickney, Ann	1831-1904]
Stickney, Celia T. [wife of John Stickney]	1784 - 22 June 1847	62 y
Stickney, Elizabeth [daughter of J & C Stickney]	11 Oct 1841	33 y
Stickney, John	1778 - 16 Oct 1846	68 y
[Stickney, John W.	1818-1899]
[Stickney, Joseph	1880-1902]
Stickney, Joseph T. [son of J & C Stickney]	18 Aug 1833	23 y 6 m
[Stickney, Lena	1 y]
[Stickney, Leon	1 day]
[Stickney, Lora	7 y]
{Strong, George - Co D. 9th Vt. Vols.	1830-1905}

Tewksbury, Arnienia T.	6 Oct 1860	32 y
Tewksbury, Emma A.	28 May 1861	8 m

Webster, Abigail	13 Aug 1842	67 y
Webster, David	13 Dec 1859	75 y
Webster, Isaiah	24 Jan 1858	22 y
Wells, Emma M.	13 Feb 1867	24 y
[Emma - Little Charles - Eva P. - Noah Wells]
[Weston, Isaiah	1868]
[Wheelock, Eunice	1878	83 y]
Wheelock, Joseph	31 Aug 1851	59 y 9 m
Wheelock, Louisa [wife of John Wheelock]	19 Sept 1847	30 y
Wheelock, Maranda	11 June 1860	23 y
Wheelock, Verona Ann [daughter of John Wheelock]	28 Feb 1844	16 m
Whitney, Allen A.	26 Oct 1863	5 y
[Whitney, Charlie]
[Whitney, Emma]
[Whitney, Emma A.]
[Whitney, Eva]
Whitney, George E.	17 July 1862	1 y
[Whitney, Maria]
[Whitney, Noah]
Whitney, Sarah E.	30 May 1862	28 y

This site maintained by Nancy Wygant of Philadelphia, PA. Last updated 7 June 2007.

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