Robinson Cemetery in Clarendon featured in tour, with Millville Cemetery next this evening
Photos courtesy of Susan Starkweather Miller
CLARENDON – Melissa Ierlan is shown leading a tour of Robinson Cemetery on Route 237 near Glidden Road last Sunday.
The tour was sponsored by the Orleans County Historical Association.
Some of the notable burials at Robinson Cemetery include:
- Chauncey Robinson (1792-1866): Veteran, War of 1812; Abolitionist
- William Lewis (1787-1826): First Sheriff of Orleans County
- John Dodge (1749-1830): Veteran, American Revolution
- Samuel Milliken (1752-1842): Veteran, American Revolution
- Thomas McManners: Escaped Slave; Veteran, American Revolution
- Shubael Lewis (1785-1861): Colonel, New York State Militia
Melissa Ierlan, the town of Clarendon historian, served as the guide of the tour at Robinson Cemetery on Aug. 10.
The Orleans County Historical Association has tours every Sunday evening beginning at 6 p.m. in August. Mount Albion was the first to be featured on Aug. 3, followed by Robinson on Aug. 10. The tours are free with goodwill donations accepted.
The remaining schedule includes:
- Millville Cemetery today at 4394 East Shelby Rd., Medina. Highlights will be a visit to the wooden chapel/memorial vault and a tour of some of the impressive monuments, including the gravestone of Asa Hill, a Civil War soldier who suffered amputation of a leg, yet returned to run the family farm a few short miles west of the cemetery.
- The tour on Aug. 24 Greenwood Cemetery, 16670 Roosevelt Highway/Route 18, Kendall, will focus on the first Norwegian settlement in the United States in 1825 in Kendall. Orleans County historian Catherine Cooper will lead this tour.
- Aug. 31 at St. Joseph’s Cemetery, 581 East Ave., Albion, will conclude the series of tours. Catherine Cooper and Sue Starkweather Miller will lead the tour, which will include a visit to the chapel to view the beautiful interior stained glass windows, and stops at several prominent gravesites.
