Name of Cemetery: Canoe Camp
Cemetery
Read By: Linda CORNELL Reese
Typed By: Pat SMITH Raymond
Date Read: July.14.2005
Location: Richmond Twp, Tioga County On Rte
15 Business, across from Penelec Bldg.
NOTE: Cared for by Richmond Twp.
Many stones said to have washed out in 1972 flood.
Could be more below surface although we did probe and dig up several
Canoe Camp Cemetery - Obituaries
| Last Name | First Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death | AGE | Inscription/RELATIONSHIP/COMMENTS |
| Cass | Augustine | 1812 | 1858 | ||
| Cass | Anjelia | 1812 | 1902 | w/o Augustine (on same marker) | |
| Cass | Lafayette | 1872 | 28y10m | ||
| Cass | Willis | Apr.20.1863 | Jan.5.1882 | ||
| Huntington | C. | O.T.MIL Rev. War - No dates | |||
| Lownsberry | Frank D. | Jun.4.1819 | Jan.1.1899 | ||
| Lownsberry | Sally C. | Jun.5.1823 | Mar.15.1905 | On stone w/Frank D. | |
| Lownsberry | Martha | Aug.5.1834 | Sep.30.1873 | w/o H.W. Lownsberry | |
| Lownsberry | Anna | 1830 | 1917 | ||
| Lownsberry | Letson | Sep.4.1804 | Mar.4.1886 | ||
| Lownsberry | Cynthia | Oct.22.1805 | Jan.30.1888 | On stone w/Letson | |
| Lownsberry | Ira | 1808 | 1887 | ||
| Lownsberry | Sophia | 1805 | 1881 | w/o Ira (on same stone) | |
| Lownsberry | Enos | Apr.13.1859 | 19y5m25d | s/o Letson & Cynthia | |
| Lownsberry | Isaac | 1811 | 1896 | ||
| Lownsberry | Laura A. | 1812 | 1846 | w/o Isaac | |
| Lownsberry | Zillah | 1805 | 1852 | w/o Isaac | |
| Lownsberry | Cora L. Simpson | 1860 | 1885 | ||
| Gillett | Amy | Aug.20.1878 | 10y6m2d | d/o Russell & Matilda | |
| Gillett | Lura | Jun.29.1846 | Sep.16.1860 | ||
| Gillett | Anna | Aug.15.1823 | Mar.5.1905 | ||
| Gillett | Dwight | Mar.25.1822 | Jan.2.1913 | ||
| Gillett | Luella Bates | Jul.17.1861 | Jul.3.1930 | ||
| Gillett | Loyd | May.1.1811 | Mar.27.1868 | Rev. War | |
| Wilcox | Ruth A. | Nov.8.1869 | 21y8m | w/o Parris | |
| Gillett | Aaron | 1788 | 1860 | ||
| Gillett | Ziba | 1791 | 1859 | w/o Aaron | |
| Gillett | A. V. | Jun.13.1870 | 39y?m10d | ||
| Gillett | Laura A. | Mar.10.1850 | Mar.10.1858 | d/o A.V. & Irene | |
| Lownsberry | Hiram | 1842 | 12 yr | s/o Letson & Cynthia (2005 did not find this stone) | |
| Lownsberry | Susannah | Feb.17.1845 | 78y6m2d | w/o Isaac | |
| Rowley | Nathan | 1759 | 1833 | ||
| Rowley | Anna | w/o Nathan (Stone flat, in front of Lownsberry's big stone all that is left is "Our father & Mother Nathan & Anna" Rest of stone is gone | |||
| Lownsberry | Levi | 1858 | 13y6m5d | s/o Ira & Sophia | |
| Lownsberry | Isaac | 1851 | 93 yr | Stone broken 1/2 gone | |
| Lownsberry | Zillah | Dec.8.1852 | 17y2m29d | Wife of Isaac Lownsberry | |
| Lownsberry | Laura A. | Dec.19.1847 | 34y10m28d | Wife of Isaac Lownsberry | |
| VanDeren | Corson, Hannah | Nothing else on stone | |||
| Newell | Rachel E. | Aug.12.1836 | w/o Perry | ||
| Noble | Lovica R. | May.16.1810 | Jan.15.1861 | w/o Orin | |
| Noble | Orin Eugene | Apr.22.1851 | 2y7m3d | s/o Alonzo & Mary | |
| Bentley | Mary | Apr.29.1860 | 74y9m2d | w/o Bethuel | |
| Bentley | Darius | Oct.5.1824 | 2m1d | s/o Bethuel & Mary | |
| Masecar | Lewis | 1885 | 1958 | ||
| Masecar | Mabel | 1878 | 1960 | On stone w/Lewis | |
| Masecar | Marion Obourn | 1917 | |||
| Masecar | Josephine | 1848 | 1932 | ||
| Masecar | William J. | 1844 | 1922 | GAR Marker | |
| Stratton | Lydia Ann | Feb.5.1846 | 23y5m1d | d/o Seymour & Susan | |
| Stratton | Susan | Sep.18.1867 | 65 yr | w/o Seymour | |
| Stratton | Seymour | Jul.11.1876 | 80y10m10d | ||
| Spencer | Fr. U. | Feb.26 1813 | 23 yr | Oldest stone in cemetery | |
| Stratton | Juliett | 1842 | 2 yr | d/o Seymour & Susan (Did not find this stone) | |
| Stratton | Rosciana | 1842 | 7 yr | d/o Seymour & Susan (Did not find this stone) |
Photo Caption: HOWARD HAGER and Ted Besanceny place a stone in the Canoe Camp Cemetery Photo by Loveland
The Cemetery Without a Name
When Hurricane Agnes and the resulting flood hit this area [1972] , it
demolished a small cemetery along Rt. 15 at Canoe Camp. After the waters
had subsided all the grave stones that could be found were piled along the river
band and there they remained for almost a year while the cemetery was covered
with trash and the area residents bemoaned the fact that no one was putting it
back to rights. Theodore Besanceney and others from the Canoe Camp area
began trying to find out who had been buried there, who owned the cemetery and
what its name was. The have been discouragingly unsuccessful. No one
remembers the name. There was no plot of graves. Even The DAR which
has plotted many cemeteries in the area had no information and no budding
genealogist has come forward with information. No one knows who owns it.
Mrs. Joseph Chance of Sebring had the most information to give. They have
discovered that it was originally on the old Lonsberry Farm whose farm house
once stood near the Edwin Trask home. Frank Lownsbery, Howard Hager, Fay
Killgore, Stuart Nays, Ed Trask, and the Richmond Township Supervisors (John
McGraw) have all help in the restoration. There is no money to reset the
stones, so those that had no bases are being placed flat and the area seeded so
that it can be kept mowed and looking nice. Bentley, Lonsberry, Mosecar,
Cass and Stratton are the family names of most of those buried there. The
oldest grave is a boy age ten, buried in 1823. The marker is a field stone
carved by hand, apparently with a chisel. “This little bloom nipped in the
bud,” is part of the inscription. The thanks of the community goes to
those who have worked to restore the cemetery with no name. If anyone has
information about this cemetery and those buried there, please contact Theodore
R. Besanceny, RD 3, Mansfield.
Obituaries:
BAILEY - Tamazon Bailey Green Gillett
Wellsboro Agitator, Tioga, PA - Wed., March 14, 1906, Pg 5
Mrs. Tamazon Gillett, aged 94, died at her home at Canoecamp on March 3d. She was born at Smithfield, Bradford County, Nov. 11, 1811, and came to this county in 1823. Her eight children survive her. They are: Mrs. M. A. Cass, of Mansfield; Mrs. John Walker, of Somers Lane; Mrs. Letson Lownsbery, of Elmira; Mrs. Daniel Lownsbery, of Jackson Summit; Aaron Gillett and Andrew Gillett, of Canoecamp; Frank Gillett and Clinton Gillett, of Mansfield.
Isaac Lownsberry [SRGP 39958] d. Canoe Camp Sep 18th, b.
Schoharie, Ny., Feb 9th 1811, came here about 1818. 1st m. Laura A. Gillett,
dau. of Aaron and Ziba. They had: George W. of Col. (dead); Sarah
Morehouse, state of Washington; Lucy H. Kephart of Kansas (dead); Julia A.
Morehouse of Minnesota; John of Canoe Camp. 2nd wife Mrs. Gillah J. Edsall of
Southport, Ny., who d. 1852. Last of 11 children himself - they were: John of
Oregon; Anna (Peter) Zimmer, Schoharie Co., Ny.; Lydia (Daniel) Holden,
Mansfield; Ruth (Peter) Whittaker, Canoe Camp; Mary (Bethnel)
Bentley, Mill Creek; Susan (Seymour) Stratton,Canoe Camp; Letson L., Canoe
Camp; Wright L., Illinois; Ira L. of Canoe Camp; Eneas L.
Published on Tri-Counties 02 OCT 2005
