Old Quaker Cemetery

Macedon Center

Wayne County, NY

The following statement was written on the original cemetery list in the Wayne County Historical / Tourism Office at Lyons, NY.:

"There are many burials in this cemetery, but according to Quaker tradition, they were buried in rows as the people died, not in families, and no stones mark their graves. Nor are there records kept. The old part of the ground is badly overgrown and almost impenetrable."

This cemetery is located in the area of Macedon township called Macedon Center. A quiet four corners where many of our ancestors were born, lived and died. Many were Quakers and lead lives in that faith. On the southeast corner, of the four corners, is a building that was the Old Quaker Meeting House. If you walk behind this building you will find the over grown area of the Cemetery. As of a few years ago there were a few tombstones standing and readable.

2005 Driving Directions - Macedon Center. Canandaguia Rd and Rt31 F. Next to church.

Aldrich, Willis, Feb. 23, 1856, 80y 1m
Aldrich, Lydia, wife, Aug. 6, 1861, 80y 3m 13d
Baker, Isaac, April 16, 1806 - June 28, 1891
Baker, Eliza A., wife, Aug. 11, 1827 - 1907
Becker, Sarah P., wife, of William, Nov. 182? - April 15, 1851
Birdsall, William, Aug. 29, 1854, 75y
Carpenter, Phebe, wife of W., Sept. 7, 1862, 37y
Cornwell, Zeno, June 9, 1863, 66y
Courten, Sarah, wife of Stephen, 1853, 32y
Dean, Reuben, Oct. 10, 1880
Dean, Betsey, wife, Sept. 9, 1856, 57y
Dean, George, Feb. 1852. 30y
Dean, Charles S., Jan. 12, 1894, 68y
Dean, Lydia J., wife, Feb. 26, 1873, 49y
Doty, Hannah, 1842, 90y
Downing, Silas, 1845, 55y 7m 19d
Downing, Hesper P., wife, May 16, 1878, 81y
Downing, Mary J., 1846, 18y 9m 21d
Downing, Sarah, Oct. 14, 1915
Downing, George T., 1852, 18y 7m 19d
Downing, Henrietta W., March 7, 1920 or 1820?
Eddy, Hannah, Feb 13, 1845, 63y
Everett, Anna Powell, 1879, 79y 8m 19d
Hill, Elijah, Aug. 10, 1858, 83y
Hoag, Abbie, dau. of David & Maria A., Jan. 15, 1861, 18y
Ingraham, Phebe, wife of A., Mar. 31, 1878, 48y
Johnston, Melinda A., July 12, 1808 - July 4, 1842, Mother
Johnston, John Q., Aug. 14, 1827 - Nov. 4, 1837, Brother
Kester, Stephen, 1872, 88y 4m 14d
Lapham, Humphrey S., April 20, 1863, 66y 1m 23d
Lapham, Rachel, wife of Humphrey, Oct. 13, 1853, 57y
Lawrence, George C., son of James & Rebecca, June 19, 1852, 3y 8m 20d
Lawrence, Samuel C., son of James & Rebecca, Sept. 28, 1860, 19y 11m 16d
Mead, Richard T., Dec. 12, 1836, 49y 11m 20d
Mead, Phebe, wife, Nov. 17, 1871, 79y 10m 24d
Mead, Mary, July 21, 1837, 79y 7m
New bury, Walter C., April 19, 1857, 55y 5m 2d
New bury, Lydia, wife, Sept. 9, 1885, 84y 3m 18d
Packard, Philander, Apr. 2, 1857, 59y 11m 3d
Packard, Minerva, wife, Oct. 30, 1881, 80y 6m 12d
Packard, Mary J., dau., March 2, 1875, 51y
Packard, Annie W., dau. of Cyrus & Mary, May 13, 1867, 3m 7d
Peacock, James, March 7, 1872, 88y
Peacock, Gertrude, wife, Jan. 29, 1847, 62y
Purdy, Alexander I., April 1801 - April 19, 1873, 72y 3m 15d
Purdy, Esther A., wife, Aug. 1863, 55y 4m 10d
Purdy, Jessee, Feb. 11, 1855, 85y
Purdy, Abraham L., Aug. 5, 1833 - Oct. 1, 1857
Purdy, Allen M., son of A. & E. A., May 4, 1837 - Oct. 8, 1855
Ramsdell, Jonathan, b. Cummington, Mass. July 11, 1781 - Feb. 4, 1862
Ramsdell, Lydia, wife, Jan. 6, 1789 - Jan. 25, 1868, 79y 3m 19d
Ramsdell, Ira, son of J. & L., Sept 11, 1831 or 1834, 20y 1m 15d
Ramsdell, John L., son of J. & L., July 27, 1834, 21y 11m 20d
Shotwell, Zachariah, Sept. 18, 1857, 69y 1m 10d
Shotwell, Elizabeth H., wife, April 9, 1857, 57y 7m 11d
Smith, Oscar E., son of Daniel M. & E., Oct. 29, 1839, 3y 3m 3d
Taber, Drusilla, dau. of Pardon & Mary, Oct. 14, 1858, 26y 2m 16d
Taber, Mary, wife of Pardon, June 17, 1859, 68y 2m 13d
VanDeuzer, Ann, Nov. 17, 1861, 57y
VanDuzer, Caleb, 1832, 82y
VanDuzer, Lydia B., Dec. 16, 1840, 34y
VanVliet, John B., July 25, 1822 - April 13, 1902
VanVliet, Abby Jane Purdy, wife (no Dates)
VanVliet, Purdy, son, Sept. 8, 1863 - June 25, 1902
VanVliet, Willie P., son, June 19 1869 - Oct. 4, 1869
VanVliet, Ann Augusta, dau., Dec. 21, 1828 - Aug. 15, 1858

Volunteer typist: Barbara Herlan of Baldwinsville, NY

Margaret Sherman Lutzvick, Former Co-Coordinator of the Wayne County NYGenWeb Site

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