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Altona, Clinton County, New York

DIRECTIONS: This cemetery is located on the Military Turnpike .2 miles south of the interesection with the Atwood Road.

COORDINATES: N44° 48.798' W 073° 35.719'

NOTES:

This cemetery was transcribed by H. & W. McLellan on August 28, 1936.
McLellan wrote: "This graveyard is situated on the north-eastern side of the Old Military Turnpike, the direct road from Plattsburgh to Chateaugay, near the southern line of the town of Altona, Clinton County, New York. It is shown on Beer's Atlas of Clinton County, 1869, on Lot 115 of Duer's Patent.
Now tangle of underbrush, it was examined with difficulty; many of the stones are broken, and others lay flat on the ground. Many graves are marked by plain, rough stones, without lettering."
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.
This cemetery was verified and photographed on Sunday, April 3, 2005 by Joyce M. Ranieri.
Click here to see general photographs of the cemetery.

AVERILL
Infant. / daughr of / G. & A. / AVERILL. / Died / June 11, 1845. /

BRACE
Samuel BRACE / Died / Feb. 25, 1860, / AE. 83 y'rs. /
How beautiful he sleeps in death. /

BRACE
Julia Ann / Daughter of / James W. & Eunice / BRACE / Died June 29^th / 1859 / AE 16 Yrs. & 11 mos. /
Sister thou art gone to rest. /

DANIELS
Joshua / DANIELS / died Feb. 3, / 1844 / Aged 77 years. / (NOTE: He kept a tavern on lot 103, Duerville.)

GOODSPEED
Phebe / Wife of / Charles GOODSPEED / died Dec. 17, 1832, / Aged 37 years. / (NOTE: Charles Goodspeed was the first schoolteacher. The first school was in Jeremiah Walker's log house.)

JOHNSON
Lydia / Wife of / Josiah JOHNSON / died / Nov. 19, 1842 / Aged 52 years. /
O come and view the mournful day /
See kindred friends are called away /
For death has come into our room /
And called our mother to the tomb. /

JOHNSON
Andrew P / Son of / J and L JOHNSON / died July 24, 1840 / in his 22 year /
Afflictions sore long time I bore /
Physicians were in vane (sic) /
But God was pleased to call me home /
And free me from my pain. /

JOHNSON
Alvin H, son / of Samuel & P. M. / JOHNSON died Oct. 8, / 1846 AE 2 yrs. / & 13 days. /

LEGIER
Adam, / son of / John & Ellen LEGIER / Died / July 18, 1854, / AE 19 Yrs. /

LEGIER
George, / son of / John & Ellen LEGIER / Died / Sept. 20, 1855, / AE 17 Y'rs. /

McKENNEY
James Mc.KENNEY / Died / Oct. 5, 1864, / AE. 64 y'rs. /
Blessed are the dead who die in the / Lord. /

MARSH
Stephen W. / Son of / S. & M. F. MARSH. / Died / April 4, 1861 / AE 5 yrs. 11 mos. /

MARSH
Lydia S. / Daughter of / S. & M. F. MARSH, / Died / July 8, 1861. / AE. 16 yrs. 8 mo. /

MARSH
Stephen G. MARSH, / Died / Sept. 14, 1863. / AE. 13 yrs. & 7 mos. /
God loves his children. /

MOTT
John MOTT / Died / Feb. 22, 1843. / Aged 78 years. / (NOTE: Kept tavern on lot 103, Duerville.)

MOTT
Tib(ith)ah / Wife of / John MOTT, / Died / Sept. 9, 1855, / AE. 79 Years. /

MOTT
Mary Ann / Wife of / Chester MOTT / died Nov. / 9^th, 1842. / Aged 27 Years. /

MOTT
Mary Jane / daughter of / Chester & Mary Ann / MOTT / Died, April / 3^d 1844. / Aged 2 Years. /
Loveley (sic) infant, happy dove, /
Thou hast gone to Christ above. /

NEWCOMB
Sacred to the memory of / Kezia NEWCOMB, who died Feb. / 20^th 1822, in the 17^th year of her age. /
Beneath this urn in soft repose /
To wait the final doom /
Lies a lov'd flower which like the rose /
Had but a transient bloom /
------
Hopes brightest scenes ware (sic) soon o'er cast /
By a thick sable cloud /
And the sweet flower retir'd at last /
For shelter in a shroud /

ROBERTS
To the memory of / Benjamin, / son of Joseph & / Sarah ROBERTS, / who died March / 29, 1822, / Aged 2 years. /
Lay here sweet babe and take thy rest /
Till thou should rise among the just. /

WALKER
Jerra / WALKER, / Died Jan. 1, / 1840 / AE 46 / (Jeremiah WALKER)

WALKER
Harriet, / Wife of / Jera WALKER / died / June 9, 1865, / AE. 68 Y'rs. /

WALKER
Phidella / daughter of / Jerra & Harriet / WALKER / died Dec. 8, 1833 / in her 19^th year /

WALKER
Surmantha M. / Daughter of / Hiram & Rosetta / WALKER / Died / Apr. 2, 1858. / AE 6 yrs. 4 m's / & 16 days. /
Twas God who gave & took again, /
His grace shall sooth & ease our pain /
we kiss the rod his chastening own /
We taste afflictions honey Comb, /
Ere long we hope with Christ to reign /
And meet our darling child again. /
(NOTE: Hiram Walker was son of Jeremiah Walker.)

Source: McLellan Cemetery Records

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