Honey Moore Graveyard

Champlain, Clinton County, New York

• This cemetery was transcribed by Hugh McLellan on Aug. 12, 1933. On Sept. 3, 1938, it was re-checked by Hugh & Charles Woodbury "Woody" McLellan.
• McLellan wrote "A small family graveyard, on the east side of Highway U.S. 9, just north of the so-called "Honey Moore's Corners", about four miles south of the Village of Champlain, on the farm formerly owned by Charles C. Moore, nearly opposite the School House of District #7. Quite a distance from the road, in a clump of underbrush, near a large pile of field stones. Only two fo the seven stones foudn were standing in 1938."
• 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.
• 7 Stones, 7 Persons

GURNEY
Patience GURNEY / Died May 5, 1852, / Aged 72 Years. /
Such is the Christians parting / hour. /
So peacefully to sink to rest, /
When faith endued from heavens po^r, /
Strengthens and cheers the lang- / uid breast. /

MOORE
John MOORE, / Died / Aug. 2, 1847, / In the 69 Ye'r / of his age. /
Soft was the moment and serene, /
That all his sufferings clossed, (sic) /
No agony or strugle (sic) seen, /
No fatures discomposed. /

MOORE
Milla, / Wife of / John MOORE / Died March 6^th / 1846, / Aged 64 Years. /
In memory of our departed friend, /
To God we do her soul commend, /
And hope to meet her at that day /
When death and sorrow pass away. /

MOORE
In memory of / Levi, / son of / John & Milla MOORE, / who Died Oct. 3, 1831, / in the 21^st year / of his age. /
Blessed are the dead who die in the / Lord. /

MOORE
Fanny / Wife of / Asa MOORE, / Died / Sept. 18, 1848, / Aged 33 Y'rs. /
Fix your heart on things above, /
And then from earth release, /
I ask not life but let me love, /
And lay me down in peace. /

WILSON
W^m H. WILSON / Died / Mar. 8, 1851. / Aged 31 Years. /

WILSON
Amelia / wife of / Wm. H. WILSON / Died / Sept. 18, 1848, / AE. 28 Y's 11 M's 2 D's /
Yet again we hope to meet thee, /
When the day of life is fled, /
Then in Heaven with joy to greet thee, /
Where no farewell tear is shed. /