Cooper Cemetery

Chazy, Clinton County, New York

• This cemetery was completely copied by Hugh McLellan on May 31, 1937.
• In a small hamlet, locally known as "Suckertown", where the road crosses the Little Chazy River, in Bell's Chazy Patent. This small graveyard is on the west side of theh road, and though but a hundred or so feed from the road, it is so thickly covered by a mass of lilacs and wild cherries that it cannot be distinguished from it. Surrounded by a wire fence, but is entirely neglected.
• 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.

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Our Little / Willie, / Ae. 1 yr. 7 ms. / & 26 Ds. /
He is gone though / not forgotten. /

BORDWELL
Luke Walcott / Son of / Elbridge & Charlotte. / BORDWELL. / died Apr. 5, 1853. / AE. 3 Y'rs. 3 Mo. / & 19 Days. /
of such is the kingdom of heaven. /

BORDWELL
Elbridge G. / BORDWELL / Born / Apr. 23, 1823, / Died / Nov. 11, 1885, / AE. 62 Yrs. /
Charlotte E. / His Wife / Born / Feb. 4, 1825, / Died / Nov. 11, 1897, / AE. 72 Ys. /
Headstone: Father /
Headstone: Mother / (NOTE: Elbridge Gerry BORDWELL, Charlotte E. COOPER)

BROWN
William BROWN, / Died / Oct. 31, 1870, / AE. 54 Ys. /

BROWN
Caroline COOPER / Wife of / William BROWN, / Died / Sept. 17, 1886, / AE. 68 Ys. & 3 Ms. /
Asleep in Jesus.

BROWN
Oliver J. / Son of / Wm. & Caroline / BROWN, / died sep^t 1, 1841. / Agd. 1 year. & 9 mo. /
Sleep on sweet babe and take /
thy wrest (sic) God called the (sic)
home he thought it best /

BROWN
Myron. M / Son of / W^m & Caroline / BROWN, / Died / Feb. 6, 1858, / AE 18 mo's. & 19 d's. /
Ah sweet little one it is hard that thy bloom /
Should wither & fade in the dark lonely tomb /
The trial is bitter when called on to part /
From the infant so dear to a mother's heart. /

BROWN
Benjamin / Son of / W'm. & C. BROWN / Died / Aug. 14, 1860 / AE. 19 Yrs. 8 Mos. / & 10 Ds. /

COOPER
Sally/ Wife of / Thomas COOPER / Died May 20. / 1847, / Aged 75 Ye's. (sic) /

COOPER
Jabesh COOPER, / Born / Feb. 19, 1801, / Died / Sept. 29, 1869. /
The sweet rembrance of the just /
flourish while they sleep / in dust. /
Electa M. BARBER / His Wife / Born Sept. 5, 1803 / Died Mar. 13, 1891. /
Be ye also ready. /

COOPER
Katie R. / Dau. of / E. L. & E. COOPER / Died / Feb. 26, 1867 / AE. 13 ms. /

COOPER
(front)
W. E. COOPER / Died / Mar. 15, 1902. / AE. 66 /
Julia A. / Wife of / W. E. COOPER, / Died / June 25, 1882, / AE. 40. /
She sleeps in Jesus. /
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(left)
Horace B. / Died / Apr. 30, 1874, / AE. 7 M's. & 13 D's. /
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(right)
Annie B. / Died / Nov. 15, 1876, / AE. 2 Ms. / & 15 Ds. /
Electa M. / Died / Feb. 24, 1882. / AE 11 Y's. 2 M's. & 21 D's. /
Headstone: J.A.C. / (NOTE: Julia A. STODDARD)

WHITE
In memory of / Artemisia wife of Albert P. WHI- / TE J^r daughter of / Tho^s COOPER / who died Nov. 6^th / 1833 / Aged 28 years 6 M. /

WHITE
Almond & Alfred / Sons of Albert P. / & Artemisia WHITE / died A.D. 1833 / Aged 7 M. /