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Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories

Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories

Canton, NY - tombstone inscriptions, stories

(For history research, find " CFL Historical Scrapbooks Online" on this home page and then use the search function, click on article...then page forward/backward for the article to appear..... This is a GREAT resource)

(For history research via the Potsdam Library, search the "Canton Commercial Advertiser"  newspapers - another wonderful resource)

Canton's Interesting & Famous People:....more to come...

Irving Bacheller

Walter Scott Benton and Emma Prouse Benton

Bogue Family

Bridge Family

Visit Anne Cady's Web site on the Bridge Cemetery:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Bridge/Bridge.htm

Leffert Lefferts Buck

Asa, Joshua, Jacob Conkey

Dr.Darius Clark

Salathiel Ellis

Ellsworth family & John Mills

Milton Freeman

Stillman Foote

Reverend John T. Goodrich

Colonel William Bingham Goodrich

Richard Harison (one "r")

Alonzo Barton Hepburn

Nathaniel, Barzillai Hodskin

George Malby

Ebenezer Miner

 Moody Family - Medad, Sally, Eli, Simeon, Clarissa, Capt Lucius, Luman, Horace

Olin Family

Visit Anne Cady's Web site on the Olin Family Cemetery:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Olin/Olin.htm

Frederic Remington

Seth Pierre Remington

Thomas Victor, Charles Hazen, Benjamin, John Hazen, John Leslie, Leslie Wead, Lawrence Russell

(links to information about the man and to read his books on-line)

John Rutherford

Sykes

Fred (Will) Tisdale

Silas Wright Cemetery, Canton NY

Also visit Anne Cady's web page on Silas Wright Cemetery:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/SilasWright/SilasWright.htm

Evergreen Cemetery, Canton NY - Microsoft Excel File

Thanks to Ron Scott for providing the information.  This file combines information from Ron's records and Anne Cady's 2009 physical inventory of the Cemetery.  Entries in highlighted in Green were in Ron's records. If there is not a death date on some of these entries, they may be "reserved real estate" for the future.  Entries in Blue were in Anne's records but not in Ron's. Also visit Anne Cady's web page on Evergreen Cemetery to see photos: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Evergreen/Evergreen.htm

Colton, NY

(Matildaville)

Cranberry Lake, NY

De Kalb, NY

De Kalb Photos

&

"Legend of Coopers Falls" by Bryan Thompson

Tombstone Inscriptions

De Peyster, NY

Edwards, NY

 

Alexander Oswald Brodie

Fine, NY

Fowler, NY

Gouverneur, NY

(Chambray)

Hammond, NY

Hannawa Falls, NY

Hermon, NY

(Depeau)

tombstone inscriptions and more data

Heuvelton, NY

Hopkinton, NY

&

Nicholville, NY

(1803-1808)

Lawrence, NY

(North Lawrence, Lawrenceville, Nicholville)

Lisbon, NY

Includes 1810-1840 Census Summary

Lowville, NY

(Lewis County)

Madrid

 Macomb & Popes Mills, NY

Massena, NY

(& Louisville)

Includes a Census Summery of names from 1800 - 1840 for Massena & Louisville

1855/58 Maps

Long Sault Island

Barnhart Island

Morley, NY

(Long Rapids)

Morristown, NY

(Hague)

Newton Falls, NY

Norfolk, NY

George P Kelley

Norwood, NY

(Racquetteville)

George F Molnar

(this links to a great site)

Ogdensburg, NY

(Oswegatchie)

7 Years War

 French Indian War

(1754 - 1763)

War of 1812

Oswegatchie, NY

Parishville, NY

Pierrepont & Crary Mills, NY

(named for Hezekiah B. Pierrepont)

Pitcairn, NY

Potsdam, NY

Includes early map and 1810-1840 Census Summary

Famous Names in Early Potsdam History

Liberty Knowles

General Edwin A Merritt & Son

John Smith, Uncle of Joseph Smith, Mormon founder

Nathan L Stone, Photographer

Pyrites, NY

(High Falls)

Rensselaer Falls, NY

(also once known as Canton Falls &  Tateville - named after a forge built by Robert Tate, Chaffee Co)

Richville, NY

Civil War Colonel and Senator

Rossie, NY

Russell, NY

(Ballybeen)

John H Spring - Jean Batisse Ranger Genealogy - Early 1800s

Star Lake, NY

Stockholm, NY

Includes 1800 - 1840 Census Summary

 St. Regis Falls, NY

Tupper Lake, NY

(Franklin County)

Waddington, NY

(Hamilton)

Hank Monk - Most Famous Stage Coach Driver in the West!

http://www.twainquotes.com/interviews/HankMonk.html

and

http://www.visitcarsoncity.com/history/people/hank_monk.php

Winthrop, NY

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Iroquois Nation

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