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Hunt Farm Cemetery

"Hedges Cemetery"

Active c.1828-1838, this small family burial ground is believed to be the final resting place of nearly two dozen individuals. Despite this estimated number, only three legible headstones remain among other damaged and fragmented stones.

In July of 1933, Theta Hakes Brown, Chairman of the Genealogical Records Committee of the Orleans Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, recorded the names on the three remaining legible headstones:

Garriett (sic) Deline, 1775-1838
Henry Deline, 1807-1829
Abraham Locke, d. October 4, 1828

In a letter to Orleans County Historian Cary Lattin dated April 21, 1972, Edwin H. Vedder of Amherst, New York described his visit to "the old cemetery I told you about on Angling Rd. just north of Mill Rd., southwest of Lyndonville." In the letter, Vedder wrote:

"There are perhaps ten or fifteen graves there overgrown with brush. Most of the stones are merely markers set on end with no inscription. Many have been broken off almost flush with the ground."

In addition to the three stones recorded by Brown in 1933, Vedder also noted three additional, but only partially legible, stones:

P. L. - no date
A.L. - no date
Vedder, Sept. 17

In reference to the broken stone marked "Vedder," Vedder added:

"I was unable to find any matching pieces of stone to complete it even partially. There is one marker in the ground of the right thickness and seemingly the same kind of stone from which the piece may have come but the edges do not match and if they do belong together, there are other parts in between."

Location

Private Property

Metadata

Matthew R. Ballard, “Hunt Farm Cemetery,” EXPO, accessed May 12, 2024, http://expo.matthewrballard.com/items/show/161.