- WETHY CEMETERY AKA (Also Known As:) CONWAY CEMETERY -
TOWN OF MENTZ, CAYUGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
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In the early 1960s, two local historians (Flora Daniells & Mable Crosby) worked together with members of the Owasco Chapter DAR, Pomona Grange and other volunteers to compile a countywide inventory of cemetery burial information for Cayuga County NY. Copies of these cemetery records or gravestone transcriptions now reside in several locations, including the Cayuga County Historians Office and Seymour Public Library in Auburn NY. A version originally given to the Cayuga County Clerk Office (subsequently moved to the County Records Retention Office), included hand-drawn cemetery location maps within each volume. Please note that often these cemetery burial listings were derived by transcribing names & dates found on legible gravestones. Thus, additional burials may exist in these cemeteries! However, the gravestones were either missing, overgrown, damaged or illegible. The cemetery burial listings displayed on this website page were updated by Jessica Armstrong after visiting the cemetery in May 2020 and comparing legible gravestone inscriptions with the above referenced 1960s countywide cemetery records project.

Occasionally, the cemetery records compiled in the 1960s, included a notation citing that they came from 'Skilton Records'. This indicates that all or part of the listings for a specific cemetery may have been copied from an earlier inventory of cemetery burials compiled by Frank A. & Clara Skilton. Mr. Skilton was an attorney & businessman who devoted the last 30-years of his life to conducting historical and genealogical research. Mr. Skilton died on 6 January 1931 and some of his historical research records and those of his wife,Clara Maria Gilbert Skilton, included listings of tombstone inscriptions from graves in more than eighty Cayuga County, New York cemeteries. These 'Skilton' research records now reside at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections; 2B Carl A. Kroch Library at Cornell University. - Cited as Skilton Family Papers, Collection Number: 1273.
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WETHY - CONWAY CEMETERY (Cemetery #119)
This cemetery is located on King Street Road within the Town of Mentz (Southwest of the Village of Port Byron), Cayuga County, New York; on west side of the road, approximately 1300ft north of the intersection of King Street Road and Halsey Street.
In May 2020, this cemetery is maintained and includes several broken and illegible stones. To view a cropped section of a 2020 Town of Mentz Tax Map showing portions of lots 72 & 83 and the location of this cemetery, click HERE. To view a map showing the general location of known cemeteries within the Town of Mentz, NY, click HERE
Wethy Cemetery
The following updated Burial Inventory, together with gravestone photos shown below, were compiled in May 2020 by Jessica Armstrong:
The order of the entries on this list are in order from left to right.".
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Wethy Gravestones
Wethy, John C., son of C. C. & M. R.; d. July 12, 1844 age 1m 10d
Wethy, Robert C., son of C. C. & M. R.; d. August 13, 1850 age 8d
Foot stone: R. W. & J. C. W.
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Jane Wethy Gravestone
Wethy, Jane, wife of Asa; d. April 6, 1850 ae 44 yrs. Foot stone: J. W.
Wethy, Asa: -Cited as: "Broken Stone' on earlier listing.- [Not found 2020; there is a divot in the ground to the left of Jane where it might have been.]
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Christian Gravestones Christian Gravestones
Christian, John (Jr.); d. March 3, 1848 age 39y 10m 3d [stone is broken, date is buried.]

Christian, [Reuhamah] Reuhanah, wife of John Christian, Jr.; d. May 27, 1866 age 53y 1m 22d [partially buried]
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Moore, William A.; b. April 3, 1834; d. February 1, 1900
Moore, Hannah C. Christian, his wife; b. November 4, 1832; d. March 1, 1908
- Gone but not forgotten. -
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Gravestone
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[Robinson, Phear, wife of (John H.) Robinson; d. August 30, 1818 age 83y 20d]
[This stone is nearly illegible; entry is based on best guess of what is remaining.]

Robinson, Edmund, NJ Militia, Revolutionary War; 1765-1848. [Metal face.]

[Skilton Records Cite]
Robinson, Edmund; d. August 20, 1848 age 83y
Robinson, Phear, wife of Edmund; d. February 25, 1818 age 34y
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Gravestone

Probably, from Skilton:
Tefft, Jabish or Jabiah; d. February 27, 1854 age 33y 11m 23d
(wife probably at his side)
[These two stones have eroded to the point of nothing legible.]
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NOTE: The Updated Burial Inventory listing displayed on this website page, together with gravestone photos, was compiled in May 2020 by Jessica Armstrong. Contact the Cayuga County Historian's Office with any questions about this burial inventory listing. Information on this website page is published on the Internet as a courtesy by the Cayuga County NYGenWeb Project. The NYGenWeb-Project is comprised of a network of volunteers that publish and maintain websites to share genealogy and local history information. The information provided, is intended as a secondary-source research tool for personal genealogy and local history research. We do NOT guarantee the contents of research materials, gravestone transcriptions, and/or the expertise of any professional researchers or look-up volunteers. We are NOT affiliated with any Local Historical Society or Organization, Cemetery or Cemetery Association. PLEASE, PLEASE, If this information is important to your research, confirm all names and dates by visiting the cemetery to view gravestones or seek & obtain original or alternate records (if they exist). Links to external web sites are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or approval of any of the products, services or opinions contained in any external web site. Neither the USGenWeb Project nor its members are responsible for the contents of any "third party" site which you may access from a link on this page."