St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Lithgow

 Lithgow is a quaint and small hamlet on Rt 44, the former Sharon Turnpike extension of the Dutchess Turnpike connecting Poughkeepsie on the Hudson River to Sharon Conn. There are many estates of old families in the area.

St. Peter's  is an active and  well kept cemetery in a very lovely rural setting, in the midst of Millbrook "Hunt Country".  The cemetery is located north of Rt 44 on CR 57.   CR57 is called the Shunpike, .ie a path to get around paying the tolls.

Poucher writes in his Cemetery book of another cemetery beside the church that I have not yet found.  "St. Peter’s Cemetery, controlled by the vestry of St. Peter’s Church,  Lithgow. St. Peter’s parish was founded in 1801 by Philander Chase, then rector of  Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, and later the famous missionary Bishop of Ohio. In 1806 David Johnston of Lithgow gave the land for a church building, his gift comprising the present cemetery lot. Not until 1834, however, was the building erected and it burned  down in 1880. In rebuilding in the same year the parish selected the present site in the village of Lithgow. Although a church stood for so short a time on the land by David Johnston, the lot had been continuously used for burial purposes. It is now more then a parochial burying ground, the whole community making use of it."

Further, "(Editor’s Note: a family burial ground was once in use in the northwest angle of the junction of the State Road and of the road of Bangall. All traces of it are obliterated.  The property was once owned by Matthew Comstock and was inherited by his granddaughter, Mrs. A. M. Sutton (recently deceased) and is now held by Miss Mary Flaherty. Mr. Stephen Merritt, owner of the place across the road, state (1924) that he can recall seeing the old stones standing in this ground, that one bore the name of  Northrop, and another that of Nicholson)."
 
Behind the current church is the Nothrop cemetery,  from Poucher, " In the village of Lithgow, immediately to the northwest of St. Peter’s Church."

The church of St. Peters is across Rt 44 on Deep Hollow Road,  a beautiful dirt road that runs from Lithgow and down into the Harlem Valley to Wassaic.  914-677-9286
 

Sample graves:
In Memory of Mr. John Borden who died June  (of the Borden Milk family????)
In Memory of ? H. Wodell, daughter of Silas Wodell Esq. who died April 8, 1816 age 22 years