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Index to Locations
Geneseo Unknown location
Geneseo Temple Hill Cemetery
Groveland Glenwood Cemetery
Groveland Williamsburgh Cemetery
Leicester Moscow Cemetery
Mt. Morris City Cemetery
Mt. Morris Mt. Morris Cemetery
Nunda Nunda Cemetery
Nunda Oakwood Cemetery
Portage Hunts Hollow Cemetery
York Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
Unknown
Locations
Geneseo, Livingston County, New York
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Otto Goodell Kelsey (1852-1934) —
also known as Otto Kelsey —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., November
11, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1894-1902; New York
state comptroller, 1903-06; appointed 1903; New York
Superintendent of Insurance, 1906-08.
Injured in a fall, and
subsequently died, in Perry, Wyoming
County, N.Y., August
20, 1934 (age 81 years, 282
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Charles S. Kelsey —
of Montello, Marquette
County, Wis.
Member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1862-64; member of Wisconsin
state assembly, 1867, 1873, 1880.
Interment somewhere.
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Edwin B. Kelsey —
of Montello, Marquette
County, Wis.
Democrat. Member of Wisconsin
state senate, 1855-56.
Interment somewhere.
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Temple Hill
Cemetery
Geneseo, Livingston County, New York
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James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1877-1952) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth, Jr. —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
12, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1905-10; Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1906-10; delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1908,
1912,
1916,
1920
(speaker),
1924,
1928,
1936,
1940;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1912; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1915-27; defeated, 1926; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1933-51 (39th District 1933-45,
41st District 1945-51); delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Episcopalian.
Member, Loyal
Legion; Grange;
United
Spanish War Veterans; Delta
Kappa Epsilon; Union
League; Skull
and Bones.
The U.S. Senate's leading opponent of woman suffrage and alcohol
prohibition.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 21,
1952 (age 74 years, 314
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Wolcott Wadsworth and Mary Louisa (Travers) Wadsworth; married,
September
30, 1902, to Alice Hay (daughter of John
Milton Hay); father of James
Jermiah Wadsworth and Evelyn Wadsworth (who married William
Stuart Symington); nephew of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; grandson of James
Samuel Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; great-grandson of Reverdy
Johnson; great-grandnephew of Thomas
Fielder Bowie; second great-grandson of John
Johnson; second great-grandnephew of Robert
William Bowie (1787-1848); third great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott and Robert
William Bowie (1750-1818); third great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr., Benjamin
Mackall IV, Walter
Bowie and Thomas
Mackall; fourth great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin four times removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold, Frederick
Wolcott and Margaret
Taylor; second cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth cousin once removed of Eli
Coe Birdsey, George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Upham
family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton
family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier |
| | | Image source: Munsey's Magazine, June
1919 |
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John Young (1802-1852) —
of Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Chelsea, Orange
County, Vt., June 12,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1832, 1845-46; U.S.
Representative from New York 30th District, 1836-37, 1841-43; Governor of
New York, 1847-49.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
23, 1852 (age 49 years, 316
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Benjamin Franklin Angel (1815-1894) —
also known as Benjamin F. Angel —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Otsego
County, N.Y., November
28, 1815.
Democrat. Lawyer; Livingston
County Surrogate, 1836-40, 1844-46; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from New York, 1852,
1864;
U.S. Consul in Honolulu, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Sweden, 1857-61.
Died in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., September
11, 1894 (age 78 years, 287
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926) —
also known as James W. Wadsworth —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
12, 1846.
Republican. Major in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
New
York state assembly from Livingston County, 1878-79; New York
state comptroller, 1880-81; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1881-85, 1891-1907 (27th District
1881-85, 31st District 1891-93, 30th District 1893-1903, 34th
District 1903-07); defeated, 1906; delegate to Republican National
Convention from New York, 1884,
1904;
delegate
to New York state constitutional convention 43rd District, 1915.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
24, 1926 (age 80 years, 73
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Samuel Wadsworth and Mary Craig (Wharton) Wadsworth; brother of
Charles
Frederick Wadsworth; married 1876 to Louisa
Travers (granddaughter of Reverdy
Johnson); father of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; grandfather of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; second great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott; second great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799) and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Eli
Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Hunt Allen, George
Washington Wolcott, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Lawson
Wooding Hall and Selden
Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Philo Case Fuller (1787-1855) —
also known as Philo C. Fuller —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.; Adrian, Lenawee
County, Mich.
Born near Marlborough, Middlesex
County, Mass., August
14, 1787.
Whig. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1829-30; member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1831-32; U.S.
Representative from New York 30th District, 1833-36; resigned
1836; member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Lenawee County, 1841; Speaker of
the Michigan State House of Representatives, 1841; resigned 1841;
candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1841; New York
state comptroller, 1850-51.
Died near Geneva, Ontario
County, N.Y., August
16, 1855 (age 68 years, 2
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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William Henry Kelsey (1812-1879) —
of New York.
Born in Smyrna, Chenango
County, N.Y., October
2, 1812.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York, 1855-59, 1867-71 (28th District
1855-59, 25th District 1867-71); alternate delegate to Republican
National Convention from New York, 1868.
Died April
20, 1879 (age 66 years, 200
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Scott Lord (1820-1885) —
of New York.
Born in Nelson, Madison
County, N.Y., December
11, 1820.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from New York 23rd District, 1875-77; defeated,
1876.
Died in Morris Plains, Morris
County, N.J., September
10, 1885 (age 64 years, 273
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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James Samuel Wadsworth (1807-1864) —
also known as James S. Wadsworth —
of New York.
Born in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., October
30, 1807.
Republican. Candidate for Governor of
New York, 1862; general in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Member, Skull
and Bones.
Died
of wounds received in the Battle of the Wilderness, in Spotsylvania
County, Va., May 8,
1864 (age 56 years, 191
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wadsworth and Naomi (Wolcott) Wadsworth; married, May 11,
1834, to Mary Craig Wharton; father of Charles
Frederick Wadsworth and James
Wolcott Wadsworth; grandfather of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott; great-grandfather of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; second great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); second great-grandfather of James
Wadsworth Symington; first cousin once removed of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; first cousin twice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin once removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth, William
Wolcott Ellsworth, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799), Daniel
Pitkin, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Lawson
Wooding Hall and Selden
Chapin; third cousin thrice removed of Frederic
Lincoln Chapin; fourth cousin of Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Hunt Allen and George
Washington Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of James
Hillhouse, Theodore
Dwight, Timothy
Pitkin, Charles
Robert Sherman, Edmund
Holcomb, George
Catlin Woodruff, Lewis
Bartholomew Woodruff, Albert
Asahel Bliss, Philemon
Bliss, William
Chapman Williston, William
Fessenden Allen, Alfred
Clark Chapin, Franklin
Darius Hale, Adrian
Rowe Wadsworth, Sr., Frederick
Hobbes Allen and Clarence
Seymour Wadsworth. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Charles Frederick Wadsworth (1835-1899) —
also known as Charles F. Wadsworth —
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
6, 1835.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 31st District, 1886.
Died in York, Livingston
County, N.Y., November
13, 1899 (age 64 years, 38
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James
Samuel Wadsworth and Mary Craig (Wharton) Wadsworth; brother of
James
Wolcott Wadsworth; married, September
29, 1864, to Jessie Burden; uncle of James
Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.; granduncle of James
Jermiah Wadsworth; great-granduncle of James
Wadsworth Symington; second great-grandson of Erastus
Wolcott; second great-grandnephew of Oliver
Wolcott Sr.; third great-grandson of Roger
Wolcott (1679-1767); first cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Roger
Griswold and Frederick
Wolcott; second cousin of Edward
Oliver Wolcott; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin once removed of John
William Allen, Henry
Titus Backus, Christopher
Parsons Wolcott, Matthew
Griswold (1833-1919) and Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin twice removed of Gaylord
Griswold, Samuel
Clesson Allen, Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew
Griswold (1714-1799) and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Eli
Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), George
Harrison Hall and Alfred
Wolcott; fourth cousin once removed of Morris
Woodruff, Elisha
Hunt Allen, George
Washington Wolcott, Eli
Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Lawson
Wooding Hall and Selden
Chapin. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham
family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee
family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons
family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Allen Ayrault (1793-1861) —
of Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Sandisfield, Berkshire
County, Mass., October
30, 1793.
Whig. Delegate to Whig National Convention from New York, 1839;
member of New York
state senate 29th District, 1848; resigned 1848.
Died in Geneseo, Livingston
County, N.Y., February
4, 1861 (age 67 years, 97
days).
Interment at Temple Hill Cemetery.
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Glenwood
Cemetery
Groveland, Livingston County, New York
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Edward Murray Magee (1863-1934) —
also known as Edward M. Magee —
of Groveland Station, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., January
18, 1863.
Republican. Agriculturist;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1913-15.
Died in Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., March 8,
1934 (age 71 years, 49
days).
Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.
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Williamsburgh
Cemetery
Groveland, Livingston County, New York
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James Gillespie Birney (1792-1857) —
also known as James G. Birney —
of Danville, Boyle
County, Ky.; Huntsville, Madison
County, Ala.; Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio; New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Lower Saginaw, Saginaw County (now Bay City, Bay
County), Mich.
Born in Danville, Boyle
County, Ky., February
4, 1792.
Lawyer;
studied law in the office of Alexander
J. Dallas in Philadelphia; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1816-18; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1819-20; solicitor general of
Alabama, 1823-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; mayor
of Huntsville, Ala., 1829; abolitionist; Liberty candidate for President
of the United States, 1840, 1844; candidate for Governor of
Michigan, 1843, 1845.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
American
Anti-Slavery Society.
While traveling in 1845, the horse he
was riding bucked; he fell and
was injured; his condition worsened over time, leading to tremors and
paralysis, and he died as a result, in Perth Amboy, Middlesex
County, N.J., November
25, 1857 (age 65 years, 294
days).
Interment at Williamsburgh Cemetery.
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Charles Holker Carroll (1794-1865) —
also known as Charles H. Carroll —
of Groveland Center, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Hagerstown, Washington
County, Md., May 4,
1794.
County judge in New York, 1823-29; member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1827-28; resigned 1828; member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1836; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1843-47; candidate
for Presidential Elector for New York.
Died in Groveland, Livingston
County, N.Y., June 8,
1865 (age 71 years, 35
days).
Interment at Williamsburgh Cemetery.
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Henry Fitzhugh (1801-1866) —
of Oswego, Oswego
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington
County, Md., August
7, 1801.
Member of New York
state assembly from Oswego County 1st District, 1849; New York
State Canal Commissioner, 1852-57; mayor of
Oswego, N.Y., 1859-61; postmaster at Oswego,
N.Y., 1861-65.
Died August
11, 1866 (age 65 years, 4
days).
Interment at Williamsburgh Cemetery.
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Moscow
Cemetery
Leicester, Livingston County, New York
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Jerediah Horsford (1791-1875) —
of Moscow (now Leicester), Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Charlotte, Chittenden
County, Vt., March 8,
1791.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; farmer;
member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1831; U.S.
Representative from New York 29th District, 1851-53.
Died in Livonia, Livingston
County, N.Y., January
14, 1875 (age 83 years, 312
days).
Interment at Moscow Cemetery.
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City
Cemetery
Mt. Morris, Livingston County, New York
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George Hastings (1807-1866) —
of Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Clinton, Oneida
County, N.Y., March
13, 1807.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1853-55; Livingston
County Judge, 1855-66.
Died in Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y., August
29, 1866 (age 59 years, 169
days).
Interment at City Cemetery.
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Mt. Morris
Cemetery
Mt. Morris, Livingston County, New York
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Norman Alexander Seymour (1849-1914) —
also known as Norman A. Seymour —
of Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Mt. Morris, Livingston
County, N.Y., February
14, 1849.
Democrat. Hotelier;
postmaster of Mt. Morris, N.Y., 1894-98; candidate for New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1900.
Member, Freemasons;
Royal
Arch Masons.
Died, at St. Mary's Hospital,
Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., February
22, 1914 (age 65 years, 8
days).
Interment at Mt. Morris Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Norman Seymour and Frances Hale (Metcalf) Seymour; married, September
1, 1874, to Mary Elizabeth Curtis; nephew of McNeil
Seymour; great-grandnephew of Moses
Seymour; first cousin twice removed of Horatio
Seymour (1778-1857) and Henry
Seymour; second cousin once removed of Origen
Storrs Seymour, Horatio
Seymour (1810-1886), George
Seymour and Henry
William Seymour; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Seymour; second cousin four times removed of William
Pitkin; third cousin of Edward
Woodruff Seymour, Joseph
Battell, Morris
Woodruff Seymour and Horatio
Seymour Jr.; third cousin once removed of Hezekiah
Cook Seymour; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah
Cowles and Daniel
Pitkin; fourth cousin of Silas
Seymour, William
Chapman Williston and Augustus
Sherrill Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of David
Lowrey Seymour, Thomas
Henry Seymour and Orlo
Erland Wadhams. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Conkling-Seymour
family of Utica, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Illustrated Buffalo
Express, March 8, 1914 |
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Nunda
Cemetery
Nunda, Livingston County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Micah Brooks (1775-1857) —
of Ontario
County, N.Y.
Born in Brooks Vale, Cheshire, New Haven
County, Conn., May 14,
1775.
Member of New York
state assembly from Ontario County, 1808-09; U.S.
Representative from New York 21st District, 1815-17; delegate
to New York state constitutional convention, 1821.
Died in Fillmore, Allegany
County, N.Y., July 7,
1857 (age 82 years, 54
days).
Interment at Nunda Cemetery.
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Oakwood
Cemetery
Nunda, Livingston County, New York
Hunts Hollow
Cemetery
Portage, Livingston County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Albion Grant Stockweather (1872-1938) —
also known as A. Grant Stockweather —
of Hunt, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born in Short Tract, Allegany
County, N.Y., April 9,
1872.
Republican. Member of New York
state assembly from Livingston County, 1927-31.
Died in Portage, Livingston
County, N.Y., March
10, 1938 (age 65 years, 335
days).
Interment at Hunts Hollow Cemetery.
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Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery
York, Livingston County, New York
| Politicians buried
here: |
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Moses Hayden (1786-1830) —
of York, Livingston
County, N.Y.
Born near Westfield, Hampden
County, Mass., 1786.
Lawyer;
common pleas court judge in New York, 1821-23; U.S.
Representative from New York 27th District, 1823-27; member of New York
state senate 8th District, 1829-30; died in office 1830.
Died in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., February
13, 1830 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
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