Lucy & Samuel Wilder stones are restored to their upright positions
during the September 29th work party.

2012 Fall Restoration Efforts Continue

If you are interested in helping, and to find out more about scheduled work parties, contact Beverly at beverlyk@twcny.rr.com.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Check out our Maple Syrup Fundraiser produced by W.E. Allen, Beaver Falls NY (also see our previous post).


USES: Great on blueberry pancakes. Use in place of table sugar as a sweetener (great for tea and coffee), pour some on oatmeal (along with walnuts and raisins), add to cooked sweet potatoes (with cinnamon), use as a glaze for ham (along with brown sugar), or spread over top of peanut butter and sliced bananas on whole wheat toast. Yum!

Regardless of how you enjoy this tasty treat, we hope you will purchase maple syrup be W.E. Allen to help support our Muskalonge Cemetery restoration effort. Call Warren directly: 315-486-3919.

Thank you, in advance!

The Friends of Muskalonge Cemetery are selling Maple Syrup as a Fundraiser toward our restoration efforts.

Syrup is available in 3 oz, 8 oz (1/2 pint), 16 oz (pint) and quart containers. Visit any of the following locations to buy Maple Syrup to help support our cause: Calla Lillies & Country Mart (Sackets Harbor); Doxtater's Bakery (Pamelia) and Food Co-op (Clayton).

You may also call Warren Allen directly: 315-486-3919. Thank you for your support!

Muscalonge Cemetery Burial Grounds
Located on Evans Road, Hounsfield NY
Photo taken on Sat., May 26, 2012.

The original Muskallonge Burial Ground Association of Hounsfield (now dissolved) was formed March 31, 1849 with Frederick M. Livermore, Samuel Wilder, Thomas W. Warren, Richard Hooper, John Hunt, Chauncey Smith, trustees [a history of Jefferson County, by Franklin Benjamin Hough]. Most of these same men are interred at Muskalonge Cemetery (Chauncey Smith was not located therein).

The Jefferson County New York Genealogical Society (JCNYGS) will be publishing an article on Muskalonge Cemetery's eighteen (18) War of 1812 Veterans in their next issue of "The Informer". If you don't subscribe, you may do so by sending $15 to:

JCNYGS
PO Box 6453
Watertown, NY 13601

Veterans Memorial is underway at
Muskalonge Cemetery, thanks to donations
by the LeRay de Chaumont Chapter,
DAR, Watertown, NY

A huge thank you to the LeRay de Chaumont Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, for their donation to Muskalonge Cemetery today (we finally have a "red, white and blue" to honor our veterans). Last year that chapter donated the bench. 

Likewise, we would like to thank the Sackets Harbor American legion for the donation of flags for each veteran's grave, and HarborSide Services for the donation of flowers for each veteran's grave.

Also, thank you for the hard work of our Friends of Muskalonge Cemetery group for their efforts and commitment these last two years restoring these hallowed grounds after the cemetery was vandalized. How beautiful it looked today when everyone arrived to prepare the grounds for the Memorial Day Services on Monday.

Thank you to each of you.