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Town of Union Vale
Dutchess County, New York
Updated 1/18 /2001

Verbank Cemetery at Verbank Methodist Church

Facts and Figures from JW Poucher's "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County", 1924.  See Dutchess County Cemetery Internments for Poucher's exact comments.

Beers = found on 1867 Beers Atlas
Terraserve = found on topographical map on web
Cemetery Hamlet Earliest
Stone
2nd 
Stone
# Comments
Friends Oswego 1802 1810 164 In 1914, "At Oswego (sometimes called Quaker City), east of Moore’s Mills and south of Verbank.  Oswego Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends was organized in 1799 as an offshoot from Oblong Meeting at Quaker Hill, Pawling. The meeting house is still standing and the burial ground used." 
Verbank Cemetery Verbank 1795 1801 321 Well kept cemetery at Rt 82 and Verbank Club Road (CR9).  Next to the Verbank Methodist Church.  (Church 845-677-5534)
Fowler - Vincent Verbank 1806 1810 24 Not yet found. 
In 1915, "Two miles east of Verbank, on the farm of Mrs. DeWitt Vincent. CONDITION: Good.  Still in occasional use.
Vail Verbank 98 39 15 Not yet found.  "Hope Farm" is now Millbrook Meadows on Camby Road (2001).
In 1915, "On "Hope Farm", near Verbank.  Overgrown and deserted."
Old Union Church Clove 1811 1818 19  Not yet found.
(Found on 1876 Beers Atlas of Union Vale, On Clove Rd, 1Mile north of Clove Cemetery below, East side of the street.)
In 1914, "At Clove, on the west side of the main road, next to the farm of Judson Denton, on the site of a former church building.  Overgrown with vines and rank grass, ground rough and uneven. No particulars have been obtained regarding the church that once stood on  this site. It was known as "the old Union Church" and the congregation probably lived its life between 1800 and 1850. The building was finally removed and used as a barn. 
Clove Community Clove 1801 1811 321 In 1914,  "At Clove. This cemetery is the property of the Clove Cemetery Association, an organization formed about the middle of the nineteenth century. It contains a few stones of earlier date removed from family burial places. 
Emigh Ground North Clove 1842 1843 5  In 1914, "East of North Clove, on the mountain, on a farm occupied By (Kinney?).  Surrounded by a stone wall in fairly good repaid; stones all standing; no thick growth. 
Emigh Ground North Clove 1793 1793 11+ In 1914, "At North Clove, opposite the Methodist Church on the Farm of William  C. Coe.  Surrounded by a ruined stone wall; the ground rough and uneven, grown  with some trees and saplings; many stones broken and fallen; some field stone markers          are uninscribed.  Some removals have been made from it to the Clove Cemetery. The Emighs were among the first white settlers in the Clove Kil valley, The founder of the family was Nicholas Emigh, the first white man to settle at the mouth of the Fish Kill. 
Uhl North Clove 1807 1818 12 Not yet found,
By 1924, "On the farm at North clove, formerly owned by Colonel Henry Uhl, now the property of Mrs. Gordon Andrews. CONDITION: practically obliterated. The stones in the Uhl Ground, when copied, were broken in small pieces and only a few inscriptions remained in full. 
Van Wagenen North Clove 1812 1+  Not yet found,
In 1914, "East of North Clove, on the farm of James Pearson near the top of the mountain. Van Wagenen ground. Only one stone remaining in a family enclosure where, originally, (within the memory of one now living), there were many. Van Wagenen, Henry d. 1812, Dec. 19, a. 82 y." 
Fuller Clove Kil 1809 1819 11 Not yet found, 
In 1914, "In the valley of the Clove Kil, near the house of the Clove Valley Road and Gun Club. Overgrown and deserted."

See Dutchess County Toursim Site for description and maps of historical sites in this area:
http://www.dutchesstourism.com/tour1.htm

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