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Photos taken
& contributed by Carolyn McPherson © 2008
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| Located in Stamford
Township in the town of South Kortright,
Delaware Co., New York the cemetery is
situated in the old churchyard of the Presbyterian
Church which was
established in 1790 and includes many of
the early Bovina families. |
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ARISTARCHUS
BLISH
1797-1872 |
| The son of Colonel Aaron Blish, who was described
as a man of commanding appearance and of
sterling character,and his wife Roxie
(Webster), Aristarchus was born 21 Mar
1797 in Connecticut. He came west with
his parents, when about one year old and
the family settled on the river by the
flouring mill below Kortright. He lived
on the old farm near Stamford where he
farmed until his death on 13 Nov 1872. He married Nancy
Cornelia Merriam, daughter of Asahel and
Phebe (Osborne or Osborn) who was born in
Harpersfield, New York. Aristarchus and
Nancy were the parents of Caroline Delia
who married Robert Sterling Rich; Evaline
Celia who married Thomas H. Smith of
England; Lorana Ann who married Dan
McLaury; Morilla Louise, wife of William
P. Abels; Joshua Webster who married
Nancy L. Merwin and later Abigail King;
Harriet E. who died at age fourteen; and
Emily Florella Merriam, who was the wife
of Edmund G. King.
See also: Brief biographical
sketches of Blish (Aaron, Novatus)
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NANCY
CORNELIA (MERRIAM)
1805-1879 |
| The daughter of Asahel and
Phebe (Osborne), Nancy was born in
Harpersfield, Delaware Co., New York on
17 Nov 1805. She and Aristarchus were
married sometime before 1824 when their
first child Caroline Delila was born. In
1850, this daughter married Robert
Sterling Rich, the son of James Rich and
Helena (Marshall). As noted on Nancy's
headstone, she died 03 Feb 1879 at the
age of 74 years, two months and sixteen
days.
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REV.
ROBERT FORREST
(1762) - 1840 |
| In 1810 the Stamford branch
of his (Rev. William McAuley) original
charge was set off as a distinct parish
under the care of the Rev. Robert
Forrest. His settlement in this place
proved a great comfort and blessing to
Mr. McAuley. No two men, in many
respects, could differ more than these
two Pastors, who, for nearly forty years
lived and worked together within some six
or seven miles of each other. They became
the most endeared friends, and regularly
twice a year they assisted each other at
the dispensation of the Lord's Supper.
There was no man whom Mr. McAuley loved
more warmly than Mr. Forrest, and there
was no man for whom Mr. Forrest had a
profounder veneration as well as
affection than Mr. McAuley. Mr. Forrest,
carried with him to the then wilds of
Delaware County, a fine library. He was a
lover of books, and having the means to
do so, he made constant and valuable
additions to his collection. His
settlement, therefore, in Stamford was a
double boon to Mr. McAuley, for it gave
him the companionship of a dear friend
and fellow-presbyter, and also the access
to books from which his remoteness from
town and his poverty had shot him out for
years.
The Rev.
Robert Forrest died on 17 Mar 1840. He
was preceded in death by his son Robert
who ws born in about 1807 and died 26 Mar
1812. His widow, Mary (Altgelt) survived
him over seventeen years passing on 06
Dec 1857.
Source:
Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. IX by
By William Buell Sprague, NY, 1869.
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MARY
(ALTGELT)
1769-1859 |
| Laid to her final rest as
the wife of Rev. Robert Forrest, Mary was
born 30 Jul 1769 in New York City and
died on 06 Dec 1859. At about age twenty
she was first married to James Rich by
whom she had two known sons: Stephen
Altgelt Rich who married Jane (Oliver);
and James who married Helena (Marshall),
daughter of Dr. Henry Marshall. Widowed in 1799,
Mary married a second time to a Joseph
Thomson of whom nothing futher is known.
After his death, she married the Rev.
Robert Forrest and had by him one known
son, Robert, who was born about 1807 and
died in his early childhood on 26 Mar
1812.
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FRANCES
MARIA (KEELER)
1810-1879 |
| Frances Maria was born on 22
Nov 1810 and was the daughter of Martin
and Patience (Mace). She was married by
Rev. Forrest at Kortight on 14 Aug 1832
to Robert Sterling Marshall, M.D. Robert,
the son of Henry and Helena (Wyatt), was
born on 02 Feb 1806 and settled at
Hobart, Delaware Co., New York. He died
on 08 Nov 1852 and Frances on 14 Mar
1879. The father of Frances,
Martin Keeler, was the son of Jabes and
Sarah (Benedict) who was born at
Ridgefield, Connecticut on 03 Jul 1781.
He married Patience Mace on 01 Jun 1802
and they settled in Kortright where
Martin was an active and energetic man
who was a farmer, member of the Assembly
of New York *1816-1817), sheriff of
Delaware Co., New York (1819-1822) and
Judge of the Common Pleas. His wife
Patience was descirbed as a kind woman
possessing domestic and Christian virtues
of the olden time.
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FRANK
G. LYON
1865 - 1921 |
| This headstone appears to
belong to Franklin Lyon, son of George B.
and his wife 2nd wife Martha J. (Mabie)
and grandson of Eleanor (Morehouse) and
her husband Levi Lyon who was the second
son of Walter Lyon, an early settler of
this Delaware County, New York who died
in Stamford in 1830. His mother Martha
was the daughter of Isaac and Rhoda
Webster, their surname Mabie, having been
spelled Mabee, Maybee and various other
alternatives. The census records of 1870 and 1880 indicate that
Franklin was the twin of Frederick Mabie
Lyon who married Elizabeth Isabelle
"Belle" Peters, the daughter of
William Blakely and his wife Hannah
(Rich) in 1895. Franklin was united in
marriage in 1893 with Sarah A. (Thomas)
who was born in Stamford 28 Nov 1867, and
was the daughter of John Thomas and his
wife Sarah "Agnes" Blakey.
Frank and Sarah were the parents of at
least Rev. John T. Lyon of Wooster, Ohio,
Frederick Redfield Lyon, husband of Edith
Glendenning; and George B. Lyon of
Walton.
The 1900 census shows Frank
G. and his wife Sarah living next door to
his parents. Frank and Sarah have not yet
been located in the 1910 or 1920 census
records. His exact date of death and
Sarah's death or place of burial is not
known.
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JOHN
MC CUNE
(1795) - 1856 |
| John McCune was born about
1795 and was the son Samuel and Mary
(Orr). His father had come from County
Down, Ireland to America and first
settled in Washington County before
settling in Delaware County where he was
a blacksmith. John was married to
Catherine McNaught who was born 29 Dec
1796. They were the parents of Samuel,
who married Nancy C. Peters,daughter of
John and Jane (Blakely); Margaret, wife
of John Wilbur Bramley; John J. who died
at the age of nineteen; Jane who married
Squires and lived in Nebraska; Gilbert
who died at age nineteen; Sally Ann, wife
of Michael Miller of Scotland; William
who married Kate E. Oliver; Nancy who
died at age thirty-two; Marie; and Mary
who married Sylvanus W. Bramley.
John died
on 19 Apr 1856, and his widow Catherine
on 16 Jul 1874.
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NANCY
MC CUNE
(1836) - 1869 |
| The daughter of John McCune
and Catherine McNaught who was born 11
Oct 1836 and died on 07 Oct 1869 at the
age of thirty-two years, eleven months
and twenty-seven days. |
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MARY
(MC LAURY) LEAL
1801 - 1884 |
| Born in Kortright on 05 Jun
1801, Mary was the daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (McCrea). Her father was born in
Washington Co., New York and her mother,
who was the daughter of Thomas McCrea and
Elizabeth (Montgomery) of County Down,
was said to be first cousin to General
Richard Montgomery who during the
Revolutionary War led the advance on
Quebec City but was killed during the
battle. The McClaughry family (as
the name was originally spelled) had
first come from the County of Longford,
Ireland and settled in Orange Co., NY
with the Rev. Dr. Clark's colony. After
going up the Hudson River into Washington
and Saratoga counties, Andrew, the son of
Thomas and Margaret (Swift) McClaughry,
moved from Washington County to Kortright
where his son Thomas (father of Mary)
died on 05 Jan 1859.
Mary's
parents were married in 1800, and she was
their eldest child. Her siblings were:
Matthew; Rose Ann, wife of Rev. Samuel
Wilson; Jane, wife of Clark Leal (son of
Alexander and Lydia); Eliza, wife of
Jesse S. Beers; Esther, wife of Matthew
Sexsmith/Sixsmith; Thomas Alexander
"McLaurie"who married Eliza
Dunbar Savage; and Andrew who died in his
infancy.
Mary was
married to Dr. James Henry Leal on 01 Jan
1824, he having been born 22 Mar 1802 in
Kortright. He is listed as having died in
Stamford on 22 Feb 1831 at the young age
of twenty-eight years and eleven months.
He was the son of Alexander Leal and
Lydia (Rose), whose family had settled in
Kortright in 1774 emigrating from
Paisley, Scotland. Family letters
indicate they had set sail on the 12th of
August 1773 but "lost thier
reckoning," and arrived at the
Bermudas where they remained two months,
during which time two of their sons died.
Four
children were known to have been born to
Mary and Dr. James Leal: Sarah, who died
in her infancy; Thomas Rose who was born
in 1829; Dr. James H., Jr.; and Barbara,
the wife of Robert Orr. Mary died at the
age of eighty-three years, three months
and nineteen days.
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Updated 23 Mar 2011
Headstone photos taken and contributed by Carolyn
McPherson
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