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Mount Hope Cemetery, Friendship, NY


These are photos submitted by correspondents researching the MIDDAUGH family in New York state.  These photos were taken around June 3, 2005 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Friendship, NY.  Inscriptions are as accurate as I can make them out, but may have errors.

There is another survey of this cemetery located on USGenweb at the following address:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyallega/mthopecb1.html


Entering Friendship, NY  - "Welcome to Friendship est. 1815"

Mount Hope Cemetery sign  - Mount Hope Cemetery sign

family group of stones  - Family group of stones.  These are too far from the camera for me to make out any inscriptions.

  1.  - large CORBIN monument

  2.  - MASTEN family stone.  Inscription reads as follows:

    Alonzo L. MASTEN
    18?2 - 1932

    Phebe F., his wife
    1857 - 193?

    Mary Agnus their dau.
    1877 - 18??

  3.  - MIDDAUGH, Glenda L., 1931 - 2001 and Frederick L., 1926 - 1995.

     - Frederick L. MIDDAUGH, S2 US Navy, World War II, Aug. 14, 1925 - Oct. 28, 1995  (This appears to be the military stone for the Frederick L. MIDDAUGH listed on the family stone immediately above).

  4.  - MIDDAUGH, Pearl, 1883 - 1943 and Walter, 1881? - 1958

  5.  - large MIDDAUGH monument

  6.  - A baby's grave.  Inscription reads:  "Darling, Harold V. MIDDAUGH, 1910 - 1911"

  7.    - MIDDAUGH, W. Vincent, 1908 - 1986 and Ruby S., 1905 - 1992

  8.  - MIDDAUGH, A. Lewis, 1898? - 1960 and Jessie ?, 1892 - 1989?

  9.  - MIDDAUGH, Elizabeth ???, 1852 - 1925 and Marcellus Latta, 1850 - 1920

  10.  - MIDDAUGH, A., Oct 1824 - May 1911

  11.  - MIDDAUGH family stone.  Inscription reads as follows:

    Robert E. MIDDAUGH
    1829 - 1913

    Susan M., his wife
    1830 - 1888

    Their children

    Theodore D.
    1858 - 1942

    Charles S.
    1859 - 1925

  12.  - MULKIN, Bessie M. Middaugh, 1885 - 1942 and Ora (can't make out his middle initial), 1885 - 1963.  Inscription includes Masonic and Eastern Star symbols.

  13.  - REW family monument.  This appears to go with the small stones listed below.

  14.  - Edgar H., 1848 - 1904

  15.  - Mary L., 1852 - 1922

  16.  - Bess Rew BURLINGAME, 1881 - 1947

  17.  - Leslie F. SWARTHOUT, AEM3 US Navy, World War II, Mar. 27, 1920 - Feb. 26, 1988

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