- I don't know much about Goodrich
Cemetery on the edge of Leisure Estates in Fulton Township;
- if anyone knows more, please contact me. That said...
-
- The original records for the cemetery do not exist and it
is very possible that records were never kept.
- One must look to other sources to find information regarding
the cemetery and those buried there.
-
- Newspapers are always a good source for data but no newspapers
were published until nine years
- after the last burial (1857) in the cemetery. The first Fulton
Township paper - the Edgerton Union - was published in
1866; it ceased publication in 1871.
- Akin to a newspaper is the Seventh Day Baptist's Sabbath
Recorder, which began in 1847. If any
- of those buried in the cemetery were Seventh Day Baptists,
perhaps an obituary could be found in that publication.
-
- Another good source for information are old maps. I have
two available to me: Evert's 1873 map of
- Fulton Township (which is online here)
and Hennessey's 1917 map of Fulton Township.
- In 1873, the land on which the cemetery is in Section 12
was owned by Jacob HENDRIX. Going
- east from the HENDRIX property one finds the property
of H. S. MASON and then the property of L. S. PECK.
L. S. PECK's son, Levi Alanson
PECK, is buried in the cemetery. The cemetery is not
shown on the 1873 map since it was no longer an active cemetery.
- The cemetery is, of course, not shown on the 1917 map of
the township.
-
- Biographies are excellent sources but I could only find one
- an 1879 biography of L. S. PECK is
- online here.
-
- More current sources include Rock County Churches &
Cemeteries compiled by Elsie E. Davis in
- 1987. Regarding the cemetery, she wrote, "Another unnamed
cemetery is located near the Leisure Estates Park in Section
12 on the Harold Spaulding farm, there are at least five known
burials there." Further description of its location notes
it is adjacent to I-90.
-
- In 2004, Rhonda (Rock County's excellent cemetery transcriber)
found five burials:
- Desiree DAVIS - wife
of E. S. DAVIS; d. Jan. 11, 1857
- E. S. DAVIS - d. May
18, 1854
- _____ GOODRICH - infant
dau. of W. & R. GOODRICH; d. Sept. 3, 1846
- William L. GOODRICH -
son of W. & R. GOODRICH; d. March 2, 1853
- Levi Alson PECK - son
of L. S. & G. C. PECK; d. April 22, 1847
-
- And then there's good, old-fashioned genealogical research.
On an off chance, I e-mailed Jon
- Saunders (an
expert on Milton's Seventh Day Baptist settlers, in my humble
opinion). Sure enough, he's related to the whole crew buried
at this unnamed cemetery (which means they are also related to
each other) and was able to provide the following information:
-
- E. S. DAVIS is Ephraim
DAVIS, son of Jonathan R. DAVIS and Elizabeth COVEY.
Ephraim was
- born December 6, 1787, in Connecticut. He married Sarah STILLMAN
in 1809 (daughter of Nathan STILLMAN and Hannah LANPHERE);
Sarah died in 1815. Ephraim and Sarah had two daughters: Carel
DAVIS (b. Abt. 1810) and Angeline DAVIS (b. Abt.
1812). Ephraim's second wife was Desire BURDICK (Desiree DAVIS in the cemetery). They
had four children: Lafayette DAVIS (b. Abt. 1825), Julia
A. DAVIS (b. 1829; see obituary),
Ann S. DAVIS (b. Abt. 1833) and W. Henry H. DAVIS.
In 1850, Ephraim, Desire and children were residing in Alfred,
Allegany Co., NY. Four years later, Ephraim died in Fulton Township,
Rock Co., WI, and three years after, his wife Desire. [Click
here
to see Jon's GEDCOM at Rootsweb's World Connect regarding Ephraim
DAVIS]
-
- William Anson GOODRICH was born March 3, 1813; his
brother was Joseph GOODRICH
- (founder of Milton
College and the Milton
House*). In Milton in 1838, William married Rebecca Aurelia
CRANDALL (daughter of Henry Beebe CRANDALL and
Lucinda LATIMORE). They had nine children, all born in
Rock County: Mary Lucinda GOODRICH (b. 1839), Sarah Aurelia
GOODRICH (b.1841), Emogene GOODRICH (b. 1843),
_____ GOODRICH (b. &
d. 1846), Harriet Caroline GOODRICH (b. 1849), William
Llewellen GOODRICH (b. 1852), Phebe Annah GOODRICH
(b. 1856; see obituary);
Lillian Mabelle GOODRICH (b. 1858); and Jana Victoria
GOODRICH (b. 1861). [Click here
to see Jon's GEDCOM at Rootsweb's World Connect regarding William
Anson GOODRICH]
-
- Levi Stoddard PECK married Clarinda Cone CHIPMAN;
Jon is related to Clarinda and he just ran
- across this PECK relation this week. As he finds information
regarding them, I'll pass it on to you. Levi and Clarinda are
the parents of Levi Alson PECK.
- I have not been to the cemetery so am not exactly sure it
is in Section 12 as Elsie Davis states in her
- 1987 book. Although Rock County Churches & Cemeteries
is The Source for cemeteries in the county, some of the data
is incorrect as to location and/or name of a cemetery. I am definitely
not belittling Elsie's wonderful work in any way; I am all too
aware of how difficult it is to find these cemeteries and locate
them properly on a map when one is standing in the middle of
a field.
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