Again, according to Patrick Raftery:

A second burial ground was founded in Pleasantville by the Palmer family, from whom the Pleasantville Methodist congregation acquired the land for their 1852 church. Writing for Scharf’s “History of Westchester County, New York” in 1886, the Reverent John A. Tod provided the following information regarding the Palmers of Pleasantville:

The ancestors of the Palmer family in America were three brothers of whom Abijah was the great-grandfather of Stephen Palmer. Mr. Palmer’s grandfather was Stephen Palmer…and his father was Harvey Palmer, who also inherited this ground [in Pleasantville} and occupied it through life, leaving it to his son John, in whose possession it remains.

A native of Greenwich, Connecticut, the elder Stephen Palmer moved to Pleasantville in the 1790s. Stephen and his wife, Azuba, were interred in the White Plains Methodist Church Cemetery. In 1841 the couple’s son Harvey established his own family burial ground on his property near the Pleasantville Methodist Church. The boundaries of the Palmer Family Burial ground were established on May 1,1855, when Harvey and Phebe Palmer deeded the majority of the plot to James H Palmer, “with a privilege to pass to and from said lot through the gate”. Additionally, the Palmers gave a portion of the cemetery measuring 11′ by 133′ to Drake Waterbury, who was the husband of Harvey Palmer’s sister Eliza. Unlike nearly all the other family cemeteries in Westchester, the Palmer burial ground has continued to be used, albeit sparingly, until the present day. The most recent interment was made in 2006.






Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Sigma 18-50mm f2.8

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