Larkin Graveyard

Beekmantown, Clinton County, New York

• Completely copied by Hugh and C. W. McLellan May 28, 1939.
• McLellan wrote: "On the east side of the Military Turnpike, on a rise some 500 feet from the road. On Lot 69, Beekmans Patent. Surrounded by a wire fence, inside of which has recently been planted a hedge and several small spruce trees. This plot seems to have been located on the south line of the old Larkin Farm, and immediately adjoining it on the south is another plot containing two stones on the adjoining old Meader Farm. A stone wall runs part way between them. (Both plots included here.) "
• These records are part of what is known as the McLellan Cemetery Records. Beginning in 1933, Hugh McLellan, his son, Charles Woodbury “Woody” McLellan, and his daughter-in-law, Hulda (Bredenburg) McLellan traveled to various cemeteries throughout Clinton County copying the inscriptions from cemetery stones. Upon his death, these records were to have been donated to Cornell University. However, Dr. Allan Everest of SUNY Plattsburgh convinced the McLellan family to keep the records locally, and they were eventually donated to SUNY Plattsburgh. Complete sets of these records are also available at the Plattsburgh Public Library, the Clinton County Historian's office in Plattsburgh, and the Northern New York American-Canadian Genealogical Society in Keeseville, New York. Each Town Historian has a copy of their segment as well.
• 10 Stones 10 Persons

EMERY
Polly ... / Wife of / Russel (sic) EMERY, / Died / May 14, 1837, / AE. 60 Y'rs. /

LARKIN
Loring. N. LARKIN / died Oct. 24, / 1845 / Aged 90 y(ears) /

LARKIN
Chritian(a) / wife of Loring N. LARKIN / died Apr. 14, 1845; / Aged 79 years. /

LARKIN
Elam LARKIN, / Died / Aug. 1, 1866, / AE. 76 Ys. / (bronze marker: "In Honor of Service / in the War of 1812 / N.S. / U.S.D. / 1812 / Elam Larkin")

LARKIN
Lucy / Wife of / Elam LARKIN / died Feb. 14, / 1845; / Aged 51 years. /

LARKIN
Saphronia, / wife of / Elam LARKIN, / Died / Apr. 23, 1865, / AE. 53 Ys. /

LARKIN
Agnes. / Wife of / Lorenzo. D. LARKIN. / & Daughter of / Aaron & Margaret / MASON, / died Dec. 10, / 1847, / AE 26 yr's & 11 mo. / (note: Lorenzo Dow LARKIN was the father of O. T. LARKIN of Plattsburgh. Agnes was his first wife; the second wife was O. T. LARKIN's mother. )

MEADER
Robert MEADER. / died / August 12^th 1844, / aged 62 years /
Prepare to meet thy God. /

MEADER
Polly MEADER. / wife of / Robert MEADER / died June 2^d 1848, / aged 68 years / 10 months and 6 days. /
For me to live is Christ, /
and to die is gain. /

MORGAN
Martha, / Wife of / Reuben MORGAN / & daughter of / Lucy & Elam / LARKIN, / died Nov. 1, / 1845; / Aged 28 years. /