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West Oswego Old Cemetery

Oswego, Oswego County, New York, USA

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    Oswego, New York, USA
    Coordinates: 43.46050, -76.51530
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In the original plotting of the Village of West Oswego by Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor General of the State of New York in the year 1796, "...a map whereof was filed in the Secretary's office April 6, 1798. That part of the village which lies between Second and Fifth Streets and North of Aries, now Schuyler Street, and extending on the East line about 630 feet to within a few rods of the lake shore and on the West line about 970 feet to point also near the shore, was reserved and laid out as a cemetery"
(20th Publication of The Oswego Historical Society, 1957, page 36).

The first cemetery within the village of Oswego was established in 1798, and for the next 30 years (until 1827) about 150 burial took place in that cemetery. This number included all the soldiers who died at the garrison during the Embargo of 1808 and the War of 1812 as well as those
persons who had been drowned in the harbor for thirty years. As he village grew it was decided another burial spot was needed and established as the New West Oswego cemetery. Most bodies were moved to the new cemetery in April of 1828.
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A listing of defunct burial spots in and around the city of Oswego:

Carter Squires Cemetery
Clark Cemetery
Fort Ontario Post Cemetery
Fourth Ward (East Oswego) Cemetery
Irish Settlement Cemetery
Mattison Cemetery
Rice Cemetery
Pierce Family Cemetery (next to Oswego Rural Cemetery)
South Hall Road Rural Cemetery
Stevens Cemetery
Worden Family Cemetery
Old West Oswego Cemetery
Fifth Ward Cemetery (New West Oswego Cemetery)





















In the original plotting of the Village of West Oswego by Simeon DeWitt, Surveyor General of the State of New York in the year 1796, "...a map whereof was filed in the Secretary's office April 6, 1798. That part of the village which lies between Second and Fifth Streets and North of Aries, now Schuyler Street, and extending on the East line about 630 feet to within a few rods of the lake shore and on the West line about 970 feet to point also near the shore, was reserved and laid out as a cemetery"
(20th Publication of The Oswego Historical Society, 1957, page 36).

The first cemetery within the village of Oswego was established in 1798, and for the next 30 years (until 1827) about 150 burial took place in that cemetery. This number included all the soldiers who died at the garrison during the Embargo of 1808 and the War of 1812 as well as those
persons who had been drowned in the harbor for thirty years. As he village grew it was decided another burial spot was needed and established as the New West Oswego cemetery. Most bodies were moved to the new cemetery in April of 1828.
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A listing of defunct burial spots in and around the city of Oswego:

Carter Squires Cemetery
Clark Cemetery
Fort Ontario Post Cemetery
Fourth Ward (East Oswego) Cemetery
Irish Settlement Cemetery
Mattison Cemetery
Rice Cemetery
Pierce Family Cemetery (next to Oswego Rural Cemetery)
South Hall Road Rural Cemetery
Stevens Cemetery
Worden Family Cemetery
Old West Oswego Cemetery
Fifth Ward Cemetery (New West Oswego Cemetery)





















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