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Briggs Family Cemetery

Location: Brown Road, West Danby, New York
Directions: From the junction of Routes 34/96 and 13 south of Ithaca, travel 3.8 miles south on Route 34/96 to Brown Road. Turn left onto Brown Road and continue an additional 1.9 miles. The cemetery is located on the west side of Brown Road, among the trees, and on top of a knoll with a large pine tree in the front of the cemetery. There is no drive or entryway.

In Summer 2000, when this cemetery was walked, there were three or four broken stones; Two had what looked to be inscriptions but they were too faint and worn to read.

Town of Danby, Tompkins County, NY.
Cemetery is inactive
This record is as complete as possible at this time.

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Please use Notes as a guide only!

Surname	Given Name(s)	Date(s)/Age	Notes
Briggs	David S.	March 16, 1864, ae 50y	Civil War, Co. A, 109 Regt. N.Y.S.V. Died at Alexander, VA. (inscribed on headstone)
Briggs	Juliaett A., dau. of D.S. & M.A. Briggs	Sept. 21, 1850, ae 4y 7mo's	name on same stone as Franklin J. Briggs
Briggs	Franklin J., son of D.S. & M.A. Briggs	Sept. 21, 1850, ae 18 mo's	name on same stone as Juliaett A. Briggs
Briggs	Margaret A., dau. of D.S. & M.A. Briggs	April 6, 1839, ae 20 mo's	none
Briggs	Margaret A., dau. of D.S. & M.A. Briggs	April 6, 1839, ae 20 mo's	none
Briggs	Willie J., son of James I. & Cordelia A. Briggs	Jan. 22, 1864 ae 20 mo's 3d	none
Briggs	Frank, son of James & Cordelia Briggs	May 30, 1860, ae 9y 9mo's 16d	He is an angel now With golden plumage on While thou art desolute To think that he is gone
Briggs	Betsey, w/o James Briggs	Dec. 14, 1867, ae 80y	Gone Home There is Rest for the Weary
Briggs	James	May 9, 1881, ae 94y	Gone Home Father is At Rest
Hayward	Wm. Henry, son of Harry & Lucina Hayward	d. oct. 7, 1861 ae 4y 9m 28d	none
Hayward	Leonard, son of Harry & Lucina Hayward	d. Oct. 21, 1861, ae 15y 7d	none
Note: there is also a foot marker with the initials I.B. on it. The foot marker is next to a headstone base, but the headstone is gone. It is unknown who is buried in that spot.

Thank you Sarah (Christofferson) McKane and Cheryl Hall for locating and recording this cemetery (summer 2000).
We would like to thank Alan Chaffee for sharing a few corrections.

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