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Witter Hill Farm Cemetery

Also known as Witter Cemetery

Brookfield, Madison County, New York, USA

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  • Get directions Davis Road
    Brookfield, New York 13473 United States
    Coordinates: 42.85147, -75.27562
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Witter Hill is located at the current western end of Davis Road, off US Route 8 at DeLancey's Corners (the road once continued on to Fairground Road).
In the 1790s Samuel Witter Sr. and his family (including his widowed mother and his married son, Samuel Witter Jr.) migrated from Hopkinton, RI and established a farm in the area that later became known as Witter Hill. No traces of that farm remain today, although a chimney was still standing in the 1920s, according to Leon D Penner who grew up on Davis Road. Because much of the area where the farm would have been located is now overgrown with trees it is not possible to determine what part of the farm might have been set aside as a family burial ground like the "Witter Lot" that was left behind in Hopkinton.
In 1840 Samuel's son, John, sold the farm to Joshua and Ephraim Ayers, so no more Witter burials would have occurred after that date.

Witter Hill is located at the current western end of Davis Road, off US Route 8 at DeLancey's Corners (the road once continued on to Fairground Road).
In the 1790s Samuel Witter Sr. and his family (including his widowed mother and his married son, Samuel Witter Jr.) migrated from Hopkinton, RI and established a farm in the area that later became known as Witter Hill. No traces of that farm remain today, although a chimney was still standing in the 1920s, according to Leon D Penner who grew up on Davis Road. Because much of the area where the farm would have been located is now overgrown with trees it is not possible to determine what part of the farm might have been set aside as a family burial ground like the "Witter Lot" that was left behind in Hopkinton.
In 1840 Samuel's son, John, sold the farm to Joshua and Ephraim Ayers, so no more Witter burials would have occurred after that date.

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  • Added: 15 Nov 2015
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2595834