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Brookfield Cemetery - in Brookfield, Madison County, NY


You can find Brookfield a couple of ways:
1. From Sangerfield on route 12, drive south for a few miles, until you reach route 78, turn right to North Brookfield. Stay on route 78 (Quleout rd.) until you reach route 80 (Skaneateles rd.) Turn east onto 80 to Brookfield.
2. From Bridgewater on route 8, drive south for a few miles until you reach route 80 (Skaneateles rd.). Turn right and drive a short distance to Brookfield.
The cemetery is just off the center of town.


At this point in time I have only two images for this page. It took me a while to find Bethiah (Crandall) Denison's grave, as the grounds keeper did not have her in his plot records. We combed the yard from top to bottom and was just about to give up when we decided to look in the oldest section one last time, and there she was. Located near her where her sons and some of their wives. Unfortunately I was not able to locate George Denison's grave. According to what I have read some of the earliest pioneer families' graves were moved off the family farm sites to this new town yard. Wether or not this family was moved here and George's stone was ever found, or if it was moved and later was destroyed over time, I can not say. All I do know is that Bethiah is here and that there is an empty space to the right of her. Her stone is sinking deeply into ground and is still relatively easy to read.

To find them drive up the middle lane at the entrance to the grave yard, go all the way back and you will see a section of old stones, she is a few yards off the lane in the third or fourth row (possibly the 5th) from the back. The cemetery is on a little hill and it starts to slop down shortly after their graves.

George and Bethiah's daug. Edith married Amos Welch they are buried in the Edmenston cemetery not to far away. Edith and Amos' daughters, Nancy and Polly married Terry brothers Isaac and Charles. They are buried in the Waterville cemetery.


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Bethiah Crandall wife of George Denison
She was the daug. of Joseph and Edith (Hiscox) Crandall. She was born in Westerly RI, June 8, 1748 and died in Brookfield, Jan. 8, 1821. She was married to George Denison Jan. 1, 1766 at Stonington, Con.

George was born May 17, 1746 at Stonington Con. He was the son of Joseph and Lucy (Chesebrough) Denison. He died at Brookfield, in 1832/33. He enlisted as a soldier in the Revolution in 1782 and served in Capt. William Richard's company, 5th regiment, Connecticut troops. In 1832 he was granted a pension for 26 months actual service, as a private.
Bethiah Crandall Denison family group

Husband George's stone is missing.
On her left is one of her sons, Jesse and Lovisa, wife of another son Asa.

Jesse was married his first cousin Nancy Marie Cottrell. Her mother Nancy Crandall was sister to Bethiah.