Lockport Daily Journal, January 31, 1891:
The funeral of the late Thomas C. Boynton was held at the family residence on Niagara street yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. W. Camp conducted the services in
accordance with the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal church. Misses Alice and Mary Watkins sang several hymns very beautifully. The bearers were John T. Murray, E. J.
Taylor, Jerome Emerson, David Crosby, Lewie Harmony and Capt. Frederick Crosby.
The Interment was at Cold Springs Cemetery.
Note: Apparently the year of death on the monument is wrong.
Lockport Daily Journal, January 31, 1891:
The funeral of the late Thomas C. Boynton was held at the family residence on Niagara street yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C. W. Camp conducted the services in
accordance with the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal church. Misses Alice and Mary Watkins sang several hymns very beautifully. The bearers were John T. Murray, E. J.
Taylor, Jerome Emerson, David Crosby, Lewie Harmony and Capt. Frederick Crosby.
The Interment was at Cold Springs Cemetery.
Note: Apparently the year of death on the monument is wrong.
Inscription
This is a beautiful gray granite monument in Section C Lot 41.
It can be located by entering the cemetery through the the Cold Springs Road entrance, turn left and drive down Chestnut Street until you see the Ballou family mausoleum on the right. This monument is on the right near the mausoleum.
There are inscriptions on all four sides.
See my entries for the other people for different views of the monument.
Side 1:
EMERSON B. HARWOOD
BORN IN WORTHINGTON, MASS. 1813
DIED IN BUFFALO, N.Y. 1893
MARY AMELIA TROWBRIDGE
HIS WIFE
BORN IN LOWVILLE, N.Y. 1816
DIED IN LOCKPORT, N.Y. 1893
SOPHIA CORDELIA
HIS SISTER
1824 - 1851
Side 2:
THOMAS CABOT BOYNTON.
BORN IN WINDSOR, VT. 1818
DIED IN LOCKPORT, N.Y. 1893
MARTHA WHIPPLE HARWOOD
HIS WIFE
1839 - 1872
ARTHUR JOHN
THEIR SON
1864 -1879
HUBBARD S. BOYNTON
1824 - 1857
Side 3:
CHILDREN OF
EMERSON B. & MARY A. HARWOOD
ANN ELIZABETH
1838 - 1856
JENNIE COLTON
1850 - 1898
MARY TROWBRIDGE
1853 - 1911
GEORGIA BELLE GARDNER
1852 - 1883
WIFE OF
JOHN EMERSON HARWOOD
Side 4:
CYRUS TROWBRIDGE
BORN IN CLINTON, N.Y. 1786
DIED IN LOCKPORT N.Y. 1861
NANCY WHIPPLE
HIS WIFE
BORN IN ALBANY, N.Y. 1784
DIED IN LOCKPORT, N.Y. 1856
INFANT SON OF
ELI S. & FRANCES HARWOOD
NICHOLS 1869
INFANT SON OF
JOHN E. & G. BELLE
HARWOOD
1874.
Note: Eli Nichols and his wife Frances Harwood Nichols are buried in another section of this cemetery.
Note: Cyrus Trowbridge was a Lieutenant in the War of 1812.
In 1819 New York State Governor Clinton promoted him to the rank of Brigadier General in the New York Militia.
His wife, the former Nancy Whipple was aboard the "Seneca Chief" at the celebration of the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
Family Members
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