Wilcox Cemetery
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Wilcox Cemetery

Genoa, Cayuga County, New York, USA

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    Coordinates: 42.62977, -76.49294
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The Wilcox Cemetery was established in 1793 by David and Ann Nancy (Miller) Armstrong as a family cemetery for their son John, the first settler in the area to have died.
After the property was sold to Wilcox, c. 1828, its use was expanded and was renamed. The Cemetery is specified in the deed as one acre but is actually 0.6 acres.
Many of the early slate stones are gone or unreadable. Some gravestones were damaged by vandals c. 1955 and by farm animals over the years.
More details may be found in "Genealogical Memoirs of the Allen Family in America".

Consumer GPS devices are only precise to about 300 feet (100 meters) without a locator beacon or a military GPS device. The Wilcox cemetery is only 194.25 ft wide and 135.38 ft deep. Furthermore, the cemetery is in such bad shape and missing so many markers that the central lane and the 11 or 13 rows are difficult to discern (especially toward the back fence). Therefore, some plot descriptions include the distance from the (N)orth and (S)outh concrete milestone markers which located in the front corners of the cemetery, along the RT 34. The headstone location is measured in meters. With the end of a tape measure is pinned at the milestone, the location of the grave is where the (N) and (S) tapes measures intersect. This more precisely preserves the actual location. (Think of standing on RT 34, as the bottom of a triangle, and the tape measures are the remaining two sides with lengths (N) (left side) and (S) (right side) meters.)




The Wilcox Cemetery was established in 1793 by David and Ann Nancy (Miller) Armstrong as a family cemetery for their son John, the first settler in the area to have died.
After the property was sold to Wilcox, c. 1828, its use was expanded and was renamed. The Cemetery is specified in the deed as one acre but is actually 0.6 acres.
Many of the early slate stones are gone or unreadable. Some gravestones were damaged by vandals c. 1955 and by farm animals over the years.
More details may be found in "Genealogical Memoirs of the Allen Family in America".

Consumer GPS devices are only precise to about 300 feet (100 meters) without a locator beacon or a military GPS device. The Wilcox cemetery is only 194.25 ft wide and 135.38 ft deep. Furthermore, the cemetery is in such bad shape and missing so many markers that the central lane and the 11 or 13 rows are difficult to discern (especially toward the back fence). Therefore, some plot descriptions include the distance from the (N)orth and (S)outh concrete milestone markers which located in the front corners of the cemetery, along the RT 34. The headstone location is measured in meters. With the end of a tape measure is pinned at the milestone, the location of the grave is where the (N) and (S) tapes measures intersect. This more precisely preserves the actual location. (Think of standing on RT 34, as the bottom of a triangle, and the tape measures are the remaining two sides with lengths (N) (left side) and (S) (right side) meters.)




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