Peck Family Octagon School Cemetery in Skaneateles, New York

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Get directions Route 41A and Benson Rd.
Skaneateles, New York, USA

Coordinates: 42.92268, -76.43703
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The Peck Family Cemetery is located in the back yard of the former Octagon School House, which is now a private residence. There appears to be at least 6 or 7 burials there. The easily-recognized building is on the southwest corner of the intersection of NY Route 41A and Benson Road, a little less than 1.5 miles south of the Village of Skaneateles, New York. I have not visited the site since I was a teenager during the 1940's, but at least two stones are still visible from the road.

Beauchamp (Inscriptions from Cemeteries in Onondaga County, N.Y., William Martin Beauchamp) appears to consider the site as two separate cemeteries, one of which he says is the Peck Family Cemetery and the other of which he says is the Octagon School house [sic]. Wood (Onondaga County Cemetery Inscriptions, Clyde B. Wood, 1961) calls it the Peck Family Cemetery. He copied his data on 13 August, 1960.