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Tri-Counties Genealogy &
History by Joyce M. Tice
Marvin or Beckwith Cemetery,
Town of Southport, Chemung County,
NY
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Bradford County PA
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Chemung County NY
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Tioga County PA
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Joyce's Search Tip - December 2007 -
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Do You Know that you can search just the
search just the
860 pages of Chemung County Cemetery Records on
on the site by using the Cemeteries -Chemung button in the Partitioned
search engine at the bottom of the
Current
What's New Page? If you use that partition follow these steps to
search just one cemetery.
1. Choose Cemeteries - Chemung
2. Enter part of the cemetery name [ie Comfort or Carr] AND a surname.
3. Choose the Find ALL Words option. Then it will find just the pages
with that surname in the one cemetery you indicated.
You will also want to search the three county level Obituaries by
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MARVIN or BECKWITH Cemetery 
Southport, Chemung County, New York
Submitted by and printed with permission of
J. Kelsey Jones
MARVIN CEMETERY
also known as Beckwith Cemetery
Located in the Seeley Creek Valley in the Town of Southport, Chemung
County, New York at Pine City on the west side of Pennsylvania Avenue and
north of Beckwith Road on land originally settled by the Marvin family.
Often referred to as the Beckwith Cemetery, the cemetery is adjacent and
north of the stately home where Robert Beckwith and his wife Julia Ann
Marvin resided for many years situated on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue
and Beckwith Road. The cemetery is in a relatively good state of preservation.
Markers copied 1979 by J. Kelsey Jones.
BECKWITH Our little Lasky son of Rob’t & Julia Ann Beckwith d. May
4, 1855 Ag’d 1mo & 15 ds
Robert Beckwith d. Aug 5, 1869 57y 8m 16d
MARVIN Seth Marvin July 13, 1810 June 9, 1890
Lydia wife of Seth Marvin d. June 8, 1838 26 years
Sarah L. dau of Seth & Lydia Marvin d. July 2, 1839 1y 5m 22d
Lawrence son of Seth & Lydia Marvin d. Jan 20, 1846 4m 5d (cannot
be correct since Lydia died in 1838)
Matilda J. wife of Seth Marvin Oct 23, 1820 Feb 26, 1888
Addie dau of S. & M. J. Marvin Oct 28, 1849 Oct 14, 1864
Emma dau of S. & M. J. Marvin July 12, 1848 July 12, 1859
In memory of Archibald Marvin d. Aug 26, 1825 50 years
Elizabeth wife of Archibald Marvin d. July 2, 1857 76y 2m 5d
In memory of Mark son of Archibald & Elizabeth Marvin d. Nov 23,
1824 12y 3m 19d
Welling son of Archibald & Elizabeth Marvin d. Sept 9, 1844 40y
9m 29d
Edward M. son of Anthony & Margaret Marvin d. 1842 Aged 1 year
& 6 mo (only the year is inscribed and no month or day)
Frank Marvin born Iowa son of Edward and Mary J. Marvin died June 4,
1871 age 1y 3m 15d at 47 DeWitt Street buried Southport Beckwith ground
(Elmira City Death Record - no marker found)
Hector C. Marvin Nov 5, 1801 Mar 1, 1874 72y 3m 26d
Henry Marvin d. Apr 8, 1890 Ag’d 35 Yr’s
RACKLYEFT Elizabeth wife of John Racklyeft d. Jan 18, 1875 35 years
from unknown newspaper (original in my hands): Subitted
by Margie Erickson
DEATH OF SETH MARVIN
An Old Resident of this County Who Died This Morning.
Seth Marvin, one of the oldest residents of the town of Southport,
died shortly after midnight last night of pneumonia. He was nearly
eighty-one years of age and had lived in the town of Southport nearly all
hs life, having been born, lived and died on one farm. he will also
be buried of the farm. Mr. Marvin was a son of Archibald Marvin, who came
to this county about ninety years ago and bought all the land on the flats
between Pine City and State Line. The wife of the deceased died about
two years ago. Of his immediate family he is survived by a sister, Miss
Julia Beckwith, of Pine City, and one son, Lyman, of this city and one
daughter, Mrs. Sherman Tanner of Webb Mills. He was also the father
of Edward Marvin, who was overseer of the poor in Elmira and died about
two and a half years ago. The funeral will be held at 2:30 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon at the home of D.A. Gaylord, near Pine City. The
deceased was one of the best known men in the county and was held in great
respect by all who knew him.
{died 9 June 1890 buried in Marvin/Beckwith Cemetery, Southport,
NY}
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Published On Tri-Counties Site On 18 APR 1998
By Joyce M. Tice
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