(aka Whipple, Cody Road, Cody Hill)
Field Checked and compiled by Daniel H. Weiskotten, May 18, 1994
MNI = 2, names = 2, 1844 - 1951 posted 7/19/1999
This material was prepared by, and reprinted with permission of, Daniel H.
Weiskotten.
"I have named this
"cemetery" for Archie and Betty McEvers who live on Cody Road near the cemetery
site. I could find no other suitable name for the cemetery as Cody Road Cemetery
would confuse it with the Wilson Cemetery, Cody Hill Cemetery would confuse it with the Inman Cemetery, and Whipple Cemetery would confuse it with
the existing Whipple Cemetery on Ridge Road in Cazenovia.
"This cemetery, if it can be called that,
contains only two marble headstones and is situated on a hedgerow that forms the center
(north-south) line of lot 40 of the 3rd Allotment New Petersburg. They are about 750
feet from Fenner Road. The atypical location on a hedge row with no other
delineation of a plot indicates that the stones originally stood somewhere else (the
stones are also so close together that they nearly touch.) When I asked Archie
McEvers about the stones he said that indeed they had been moved to the hedge row from a
spot in the field about 100 feet to the west. There is no particular land form at
that location to indicate where the cemetery had been located, but his estimate of
distance may not be correct. He said that it was many years ago (I gathered the
1930s or so) that the stones were moved and their location may show on early aerial
photos. A peculiar feature that may be the cemetery location was found on a narrow
peninsula of land in the brushy area west of the field. This spot has disturbed
soil, wood chuck holes, and an iron pipe in the ground and is in the center of the Whipple
property. Why the stones would have been removed from this location to the spot
where they are now found is not known.
"The west half of the lot is shown on historic
maps as being owned and occupied by members of the Whipple family and other members lived
in the immediate vicinity. The 1854 map shows Michael Whipple living in the house
that formerly stood just east of the McEvers' former house (on the north side of Fenner
Road,) and an Elisha Whipple lived on the Nelson-Fenner Road. In 1859 M. Whipple is
at the same place and E. Whipple is shown twice on the Nelson-Fenner Road. The 1875
map shows A. Whipple's residence on the Nelson-Fenner Road and the name appears again on
Wyss Road.
"Michael Whipple is buried in the Needham
Cemetery, and a search of other cemetery records shows one Jerusha A. Whipple, died 1878
at age 78, is buried in Evergreen Cemetery (Interment #1639, sect. C-442). The
relationship to the Jerusha Whipple of this cemetery is not known. She is buried
with Eunice Whipple Sanford (#1636), Mariah J. Whipple (1637), Sophia White Whipple
(#1638), Jeremiah Whipple (#1640), and Maria S. Whipple (#2852).
"Those buried in the McEvers Cemetery include:
Whipple, Jerusha, wife of John Whipple, died July 21, 1844, age 70
years. (She is an Inman)
Whipple, John, died January 18, 1851, age 79 years 4 months 8 days."
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