Fort Hill Cemetery

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Fort Hill Cemetery

• Auburn, NY

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History

• 1851 Fort Hill Cemetery was incorporated.
• Official Name Trustees of the Fort Hill
  Cemetery Association of Auburn.
• Eight Founders of Fort Hill Cemetery
• William C. Beardsley
• George Hatch
• Thomas Y. How
• Michael S. Myers
• Hugo B. Rathbun
• Josiah N. Starin
• George Underwood
• John L. Watrous
• Currently there are 83 acres of land for the
  cemetery.

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Bradley Chapel

• Jane Loomis Bradley funded this gift in the
  memory of her late husband, Silas L Bradley.
• Julius A. Schweinfurth, was the architect for
  this project.
• Created in the style of Gothic architecture, the
  building of this chapel was completed in 1893.

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Logans Monument

• Located in the Fort Allegan section of Fort Hill
  Cemetery.
• John Logan was a Cayuga Native American.
• Logans statement was a protest against his
  co-leader, Shawnee Cornstalk, for selling Native
  American land to Lord Dunmore. This statement
  was later published by Thomas Jefferson.
• His statement became known as Logans Lament.

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Notable People

• The resting places of many local, state, and
  national historical icons resting place is
  located at Fort Hill Cemetery. Listed below are
  only a few of those icons
• Emory Upton, General Civil War Commander
• Harriet Ross Tubman Davis, Conductor on the
  Underground Railroad
• Sylvester Willard, Physician Philanthropist
• Theodore W. Case, Scientist Inventor of
  Soundfilm
• Thomas Mott Osborne, Prison Reformer
• William C. Beardsley, one of eight founders for
  the Fort Hill Cemetery
• William H. Seward, Secretary of State for Abraham
  Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

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The Seward Family

• William H. Seward is most remembered as Abraham
  Lincolns Secretary of State.
• Buried next to Mr. Seward is his wife, Frances
  Adeline Miller Seward
• Their three sons and two daughters are buried on
  this plot.
• Other family members at the plot include their
  daughters-in-law, and grandchildren

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Harriet Ross Tubman Davis

• Born Araminta Ross (1819 or 1820) in Dorchester
  County, Maryland.
• Harriet was born into slavery, and sought freedom
  for herself and others.
• She risked her life multiple times as a
  Conductor on the Underground Railroad.
• Her grave stone is simple with a memorial
  statement on the opposite side of the stone.

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Can you find these unique stones at Fort Hill
Cemetery?
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Activity

• Descramble Place the listed events in
  chronological order
• American Revolution Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Assassination of President Lincoln Industrial
  Revolution
• Civil War Louisiana Purchase
• Custers Last Stand Monroe Doctrine
• Dawes Act Reconstruction
• Emancipation Proclamation Seven Years War
• Homestead Act U.S. purchases Alaska

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Check your answers

• Seven Years War (1756-1763)
• American Revolution (1776)
• Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Civil War (1861-1865)
• Homestead Act (1862)
• Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Assassination of President Lincoln (1865)
• Reconstruction (1865-1875)
• U.S. purchases Alaska (1867)
• Industrial Revolution (1875-1900)
• Custers Last Stand (1876)
• Dawes Act (1887)

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Sources

• Larson, K. C. (2004). Bound For The Promised
  Land. New York Ballatine Books.
• http//www.cayuganet.org/forthill/
• http//www.cayuganet.org/forthill/roster/s.html
• www.schweinfurthartcenter.org/history.html