The Cosby Family Cemetery

Located in West Lincoln on Silver Street is a peculiar cemetery in the middle of a field. This cemetery is the Cosby family cemetery. I have not found much information on it at all. This must be their old farm property.

Burials

Cosby, Benjamin C

Cosby, Benjamin Canby

Cosby, Melinda Jane

Cosby, Minnie B

Cosby, Robert A

Cosby, Robert J

Roy, Emma Jane

Benjamin C Cosby was born around 1819. He died March 26th, 1887 of old age.

Benjamin Canby Cosby was born around 1864 to Robert J Cosby and Melinda Jane Cosby (maiden unknown). He died March 3rd, 1873.

Melinda Jane Cosby was born around 1838. She died July 6th, 1896 of sudden heart disease. She was married to Robert J Cosby and had four known children, Robert A, Minnie B, Benjamin Canby, and George Hamilton.

Minnie B Cosby was born in November of 1876 to Robert J Cosby and Melinda Jane Cosby. She died when she was one month old on December 6th, 1876.

Robert A Cosby was born October 10th, 1873 to Robert J Cosby and Melinda Jane Cosby. He died aged 4 months and 14 days on January 24th of 1874.

Robert J Cosby was born around 1835. He died July 3rd, 1876. He was married to Melinda Jane Cosby. They had four known children - Benjamin Canby, George Hamilton, Robert A, and Minnie A.

Emma Jane Roy was born around 1866. She died March 22nd, 1892, aged 26 years and 2 months. She was married to Thomas Roy. One potential child may be Edna May Roy who married James Webber.

Related Findings

Death certificate of Benjamin C. Cosby.

Death certificate of Melinda Jane Cosby.

Comments

The Bowerman Family

My research on this family began after viewing some photographs my mum took when she went to a cemetery in Prince Edward County. I had no idea which cemetery, but upon searching on the internet, I found out that it was the Bowerman Hill Cemetery in Hallowell, Prince Edward County, and so my search on the Bowerman family began! Stephen & Elizabeth Bowerman Stephen Job Bowerman was born December 31st of 1848 to Gideon Hughes Bowerman and Mary S Christy. He had two known younger brothers, Albert Claude (born 1850, married Lillian Thorn after Ida E Bedell), and James (born 1852, married Charlotte Jane and later Melvina). Stephen married Elizabeth Lucas on September 20th of 1869, and they had five known children. He is buried in Bowerman Hill Cemetery in Hallowell. Elizabeth Lucas was born November 21st, 1850 in Belleville, Hastings County, to Miles Lucas (1824-1903) and Olive Bowerman (1823-1901, dau. of John and Mary) . She died August 2

The Jamestown Masonic Cemetery

When I was in Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California, I decided to go visit the Jamestown Masonic Cemetery located on Jamestown road and easily accessible from Golden Chain Highway 49. I noticed that there are quite a lot of masonic cemeteries and gravestones in and around the Jamestown area. Jamestown is technically a ghost town from the days of the California Gold Rush, although it does have a small population these days. Burial Records Dixon, Edith May Dixon, Grace Elenor Dixon, Jared Young Evans, Thomas Jefferson Ouderkirk, Isaac Pereira, Hannah (Morgan) Pereira, John Severio, Ferio Severio, Mary J Witter, James Edith May Dixon Edith May Dixon was born in 1862 in California to Jared Young Dixon and Louisa Ann Wildermuth. She died on September 6th 1870 aged 8 years, 7 months, and 22 days. Her cause of death is unknown. Grace Elenor Dixon Grace Elenor

The Douglas Family

The story starts in Smithville United Cemetery, in Smithville, Ontario, Canada. Near the old church there is a grave which states: Simon P. Emerson Born in Manchester, N. H., U. S. Mar. 20 1810 Died in Smithville, C. W. July 11, 1860 C. W. refers to Canada West, and of course N. H. is a reference to New Hampshire. Simon was born around 1809 and his parents are unknown, but he married a woman named Harriet Griffin Douglas on February 1st of 1840 and there is a plethora of information about her ancestry. They had one known child named Thomas Emerson, who was born in March 1841 in

Written In The Stones

Search This Blog