"This cemetery is on the west side of NY Rte 281 slightly more than 1.1 miles south of the intersection of NY Rte 281 with NY Rte 80. If one is approaching from the south it is approximately .3 miles north of the Cortland County line.

Various names have been applied to this cemetery. Beauchamp (Inscriptions from Cemeteries in Onondaga County, N.Y., William Martin Beauchamp) called it "Old Cemetery, south of Tully village." Ada W. Holstock in 1931 apparently copied Beauchamp's material into the DAR Cemetery Records Vol 27 page 67 under the same name. Wood (Onondaga County Cemetery Inscriptions, Clyde B. Wood, 1961) called it "Old Tully Cemetery." Others have referred to it as the Cummings, Egbertson or VanBergen Cemetery.

For the lack of a better name I am calling this cemetery the Old Tully Cemetery. This action is prompted mainly by Wood's appellation and by the bicentennial marker which is posted near the road. The metal sign bears the star which was a logo of the bicentennial and says, "Early 1800. TULLY'S FIRST BURIAL GROUND. Original property of Eli Farr. Two veterans of the American Revolution lie at rest here. Town of Tully Historical Dept."

I spent a very pleasant sunny, cool and windy Memorial Day afternoon there on 26 May 1997 transcribing the burials. With few exceptions, the data in the list which follows comes from my personal survey. When supplemental material has been obtained from Beauchamp or Wood, I have included a notation to that affect and have identified the source.

In the northeast corner of the cemetery there is a fenced-in enclosure approximately 25 feet wide and approximately 50 feet in depth. Inside are the VanBergen, McCarty and Dana Graves. One of the posts at the entrance bears the date 1908. All the stones, except one, inside the enclosure predate 1908. The one exception is an obelisk for the VanBergens and the McCartys. On its four sides it repeats the information found upon the older individual stones which surround it." - http://web.cortland.edu/woosterk/oldtully.html