OSBORNEVILLE CEMETERY
Dekalb, NY
Compiled by: Rosanne M Holt
732 Old DeKalb Rd
Canton, NY 13617
Email: Rosanne_Holt@hotmail.com
July 2007
* Means buried without a headstone
Underlined information is additional - not on headstones
Osborneville Cemetery, located on the Depeyster - Gouverneur County Highway, on
a plot of ground adjacent to the former Horace Hurlbut farm, and in the Town of DeKalb,
is a small neighborhood Cemetery. Burials have been discontinued. The Oldest burial
recorded is in 1857.
Philo Hurlbut, who was one of the early pioneers of the area came from Connecticut and
carved a home in the wilderness.
Harland Goodnough of Gouverneur collected the following records from the tombstones
and presented it to the Historian department. Mr. Goodnough is a descendent of the Tyler
families whose record is found here.
This record was files 8/15/1955:
DAY Louisa (See Tyler Louisa Day)
HURLBUT Philo AE 71yrs b 1786 - d 10/27/1857
Julia Sweet, his wife, dau of Joshua & Eliza H Sweet in her 90th yr b 1795 - d 8/28/1884
HURLBUT Thomas AE 63yrs b 1820 - d 3/ 3/1883
Jane Griffith, his wife, b - d 1856
Rogena _____, his wife, AE 64yrs b 1824 - d 1/ 6/1888
MOTT Frances V (See Tyler Frances V Mott)
SMITH Charles AE 31yrs b 1852 - d 5/30/1883
Sarah _____, his wife,
Charles, their son, AE 4mo 2da b 1879 - d 1/18/1880
SWEET Julia (See Hurlbut Julia Sweet)
TYLER Chauncey, son of Norman & Louisa Day Tyler b 1851 - d 1902
Polly Washburn, his wife, AE 28yrs 9mo 24da b 1850 - d 3/11/1879
Frances V Mott, his wife, b 1851 - d
Mrytle, dau of C & P
Lilla, dau of C & P AE 3yrs b 1878 - d 8/30/1881
TYLER Norman b 11/19/1816 - d 1/12/1910
Louisa Day, his wife, dau of David & Betsey Bristol Day AE 71yrs 7mo 12da b 4/15/1818 - d 11/27/1890
William Henry, their son, Killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, VA AE 19yrs 3mo 19da b 4/4/1864 - d 6/ 1/1864
(buried on battlefield 6/2/1864) http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/dbases/nccoldha.htm
David C., their son, died at Martinsburgh, VA AE 16yrs 9da b 2/10/1842 - d 2/ 6/1863
(buried at hospital Cemetery there)
* Emery, their son
VANDENHOOF Edwin W., son of J W & Delia A Vanderhoof AE 2yrs 6mo b 1859 - d 2/15/1862
WASHBURN Polly E (See Tyler Polly E Washburn)