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Photos
taken & contributed by Carolyn McPherson
©2007 |
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Family Members Buried
in Riverside Cemetery
(Females
listed by their given birth name) |
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BORN |
DIED |
NOTES
OF RELATION |
| Blakely, Jane |
Abt. 1811 |
07 Mar 1879 |
Daughter
of William & Nancy (McDonald); wife
of John Peters |
| Halstead/Halsted,
Susannah |
22 Mar 1772 |
17 Jan 1853 |
Daughter
of James & Elizabeth (Teed) |
| McCune, Infant Son |
1860 |
1860 |
Son of
Samuel McCune & Elizabeth (Peters) |
| Peters, John |
22 Mar 1804 |
17 Sep 1896 |
Son of
Richard & Susannah (Halstead);
husband of Jane (Blakely) |
| Peters, Nancy C. |
06 Sep 1831 |
18 Feb 1854 |
Daughter
of John & Jane (Blakely); wife of
Samuel McCune |
| Peters, Richard |
27 Jun 1773 |
06 Mar 1853 |
Son of
Richard & Jerusha (Sutton); Husband
of Susannah (Halstead/Halsted) |
| Peters, Sarah A. |
10 Dec 1833 |
09 Jan 1852 |
Daughter
of John & Jane (Blakely); wife of
Henry Hanford |
| Peters, William
Blakely |
23 Dec 1837 |
03 Nov 1904 |
Son of
John & Jane (Blakely); husband of
Hannah (Rich) |
| Rich, Hannah |
17 Jul 1838 |
02 Apr 1930 |
Daughter
of James & Jane Ann (Southard); wife
of William Blakely Peters |
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SUSANNAH
(HALSTEAD)
1772 - 1853 |
| Susannah Halstead, daughter
of James & Elizabeth Teed, was born
22 Mar 1772 in Saratoga Co., New York.
She married Richard Peters in 1791 and
they were the parents of nine children:
Daniel, William, Richard, James, John,
Susan, Sarah, and Jerusha. Susannah died very
suddenly on the 17th of January 1853
while seated at the breakfast table. She
had seemed in her usual good health and
spirits. Her husband Richard died about
seven weeks later.
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RICHARD
PETERS
1773-1853 |
| Richard, son of Richard and
Jerusha (Sutton), was born in 1773 at
Clifton Park, Saratoga Co., New York.
There he married Susannah (Halstead),
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Teed) on
04 Sep 1791. They moved to Stamford
county in about 1795 and purchased a farm
where they lived until about 1831, but
returned in 1852. After his wife's sudden
death, Richard passed away about seven
weeks later. [Obituary]
The
headstone of his grandson William Blakely
Peters is pictured in the background.
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JOHN
PETERS
1804-1896 |
| Born on 22 Mar 1804 in
Stamford, Delaware, New York, John was
the son of Richard and Susannah
(Halstead). He married Jane (Blakely)
daughter of William and Nancy on 01 Jul
1830 in Kortright, Delaware Co., New York
where their youngest son was born. John,
who was a captain of a militia, was known
to the children in the village as
"Uncle John." He died in
Bloomville on 17 Sep 1896, at the age of
ninety-two. |
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JANE
(BLAKELY)
1811-1879 |
| Jane was born about 1811 in
Kortright, Delaware, New York and was the
daughter of William and Nancy (McDonald).
The first school teacher in Kortright,
Jane became the wife of John Peters. She
died on 07 Mar 1879 in Bloomville at the
age of sixty-eight. |
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| VIEW
OF THE JOHN & JANE (BLAKELY) FAMILY
BURIALS |
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NANCY
CLYDE PETERS
1831-1854 |
| Born near Bloomville at
"Rich Hill" on 06 Sep 1831,
Nancy was the daughter of John and Jane
(Blakely). She married Samuel McCune, on
the 16th of October, 1850. Nancy died
during or shortly after giving birth to
their daughter, Nancy, who was born 18
Feb 1854. Her husband Samuel married her
cousin two years later. He died in
Jefferson Co., New York on 05 Dec 1899. |
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INFANT
MC CUNE
1860 -1860 |
| Stone in foreground reads:
"Son of Samuel and Elizabeth
McCune." As noted above, Samuel
married Nancy's cousin, Elizabeth,
daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth
(Jerome), on 15 Oct 1856. They lived in
Jefferson Co., New York, and besides the
infant who was born and died in 1861,
they were the parents of Katherine,
Ralph, Samuel and John McCune. |
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SARAH
ANN PETERS
1833-1852 |
| Born on 10 Dec 1833, Sarah
was educated at Hobart Seminary, but died
at the young age of eighteen years. Some
family notes indicate she had married
Henry Hanford. |
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| WILLIAM
BLAKELY PETERS & HANNAH (RICH) FAMILY |
| William Blakely was born in
the town of Stamford on 23 Dec 1837, and
was the son of John and Jane (Blakely).
He entered into the mercantile business
with Samuel McCune at the age of
twenty-one. On 17 Jul 1861 he married
Hannah Rich, daughter of James Rich and
Jane (Southard). A postmaster, jeweler,
surveyor, and draughtsman, William died
in Bloomville on 03 Nov 1904. William's wife
Hannah was born 17 Jul 1838 in South
Kortright. She and William were the
parents of Jennie who was born on 31 May
1862 and died at the age of eleven on 30
Jul 1873; Lizzie who married Frederick
Lyon; James R. who was born 06 Jan 1868,
married Alice Roth and died on 29 Jan
1942; and Sarah who married William H.
Hickok. Hannah died at the age of
niney-one in Bloomville on 02 Apr 1930.
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