Angus Cemetery
Town of Benton
Yates County, New York
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The Angus family were the original owners of hundreds of acres in this immediate vicinity. The cobblestone house near where the Angus Road intersects with Route 14 was theirs, and so was the land on which the cemetery now lies. It is a family plot, once surrounded by a fence of which only the stone gateposts remain.
The cemetery is barely visible from the highway, and can only be reached from a private driveway; it is a clump of trees and carpeted with myrtle. Some of the stones have fallen, but all are still legible.
Nearly all of the earlier lists call this cemetery by the name of the Angus Family Cemetery, though occasionally it is referred to as being on the Newlander farm.
Angus Cemetery Burials
- ANGUS, Andrew, son of Walter and Phebe Angus, died Apr. 10, 1828, age 21 yrs. 9 mos. 17 days. (broken stone)
- ANGUS, Anne, dau. of David Angus, died Mar. 12, 1840, age 6 yrs. (broken stone)
- ANGUS, Charles, son of Walter Angus, born July 17, 1802, died May 28, 1854 (Also in Bellona Cemetery)
- ANGUS, Janet, dau. of David Angus, died Aug. 2, 1842, age 21 yrs. (broken stone)
- ANGUS, Maria, dau. of Walter and Phebe Angus, born 1813, died Aug. 14, 1831, age 18 yrs. (broken stone)
- ANGUS, Phebe (Davis), wife of Walter Angus, died Mar. 2, 1855, age 78 yrs. (broken stone)
- ANGUS, Walter, died Dec. 10, 1857, age 90 yrs. 8 mos. (broken stone)
- DAVIS, Penelope, wife of Joseph Davis, mother of Phebe Angus, died Mar. 30, 1839, age 7 or 8 yrs.
- POWERS, Euretta A., child of A. H. and S. A. Powers (small stone, no dates)
- SIMONS, Jane Isabella (Angus), wife of James Simons, dau. of David Angus, died Mar. 15, 1846, age 44 yrs.