Tompkins Co., NYGenWeb - Ithaca City Cemetery

Ithaca City Cemetery (L)
Located to the west (downhill) side of West Campus. It can easily be accessed from either Stewart or University Avenues. Built on a terraced slope between Stewart & University avenues. City of Ithaca, Tompkins County, NY. The cemetery now covers sixteen acres, including a potter's field, two Jewish burial grounds, a Civil War memorial, and a Fire Fighters' Memorial. Records are from: City Cemetery interment records copied from original records 7/2/2002 by Cathy Knauff; Dora Pope Worden's 1920's records; Headstone inscriptions taken by Cathy Knauff starting in the summer of 2002. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z	Photo by Cathy Knauff (larger photo)
The first burial in Ithaca is in this cemetery: Rachel Allen, a young child of a family passing through Ithaca, became ill and died in 1790 or 1791, and was buried in the Village Cemetery on the hill (Ithaca City Cemetery). She is buried in an unmarked grave.
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Please be patient while we update these records.
Ithaca City Cemetery is a very large cemetery with many very old headstones. We will try to be as accurate as possible with the inscriptions when transcribing from the headstones and the interment records. Other updates are from Ithaca City Hall index cards from the cemetery Interment records, hand copied by Cathy Knauff and transcribed by her. Those records will have block/lot/map no. listed to the right. When other records were used that source will be also listed. We are sorry if a person is not listed with these records. If their burial was in the early 1800s, many of those burials, if not recorded earlier are not marked in the interment records, nor does any headstone remain with their inscription. It must also be noted that in the Western Section of the cemetery (oldest part) we did find a pile of broken headstones that had been thrown over the bank. It appears that many years ago no care was taken to preserve the history that lies in this cemetery. This cemetery also seems to be a play ground for someone that finds it fun to destroy or vandalize headstones and monuments. Some monuments have also been pushed over the gorge where they can not be retrieved.

SURNAME	FIRST NAME	BIRTH/DEATH/AGE	BLOCK/LOT/MAP/Info.SOURCE
La Bar	Fred	d. June 20, 1897, Aged 48 Years	Headstone inscription
Lambert	Eleanor E., w/o Levi Lambert	d. May 2, 1855	Headstone inscription
Lambert	Joseph	d. Feb. 20, 1833 ae 61yr 10m 5d	Headstone inscription
Lambert	Levi	d. June 16, 1847 ae 47yr 4m 28d	Headstone inscription
Landon	Charles M.		Headstone inscription
Landon	Daniel	b. Nov. 18, 1799; d. June 27, 1880	Headstone inscription
Landon	Frank, s/o Daniel and Priscilla	d. 1883	Headstone inscription
Landon	Daniel, h/o Priscilla	1843 - 1918	Headstone inscription
Landon	Priscilla, w/o Daniel	1842 - 1917	Headstone inscription
Laubengayer	Grace Ware	1905 - 1987	Headstone inscription
Lawrence	Agnes, w/o Willis	1882 - 19__	Headstone inscription
Lawrence	Antoinette	d. Sept. 4, 1932	"Daughter" Headstone inscription
Lawrence	Antoinette M.	d. Nov. 20, 1875	Headstone inscription
Lawrence	Caroline H. Conrad, w/o John Y.	d. July 13, 1929	Headstone inscription
Lawrence	Willis, h/o Agnes	1881 - 1957	Headstone inscription
Lawrence	John Y.	d. Jan. 8, 1875	Headstone inscription
Legge	Edward L., h/o Mary Hazen	1836 - 1922	Headstone inscription
Legge	Fred J.	d. May 28, 1928	Headstone inscription
Legge	Llewellyn	1867 - 1938	Headstone inscription
Legge	Martha	no dates	Headstone inscription
Legge	Mary Hazen, w/o Edward L.	1848 - 1927	Headstone inscription
Legge	Minnie, d/o Edward L. and Mary Hazen Legge	1872 - 1886	Headstone inscription
Legge	Minnie C.	d. Dec. 19, 1940	Headstone inscription
Leo	Leopold	b. Dec. 25, 1844; d. July 10, 1921	Headstone inscription
Leonard	Harvey	d. July 7, 1895, aged 58 years	, Co. G, 15th N. Y. Cav. Headstone inscription
Leonard	Hellen A. Terrwilligar, w/o Lyman	1844 - 1928	Headstone inscription
Leonard	Isabella, wife of Levi Leonard	b. June 24, 1789 d. Aug 20, 1842	Headstone inscription
Leonard	James A., h/o Sarah A. Moore	1842 - 1926	Headstone inscription
Leonard	Mrs. Julia	d. Aug 25, 1869, aged 70 years	Headstone inscription
Leonard	Levi		Headstone inscription
Leonard	Lyman, h/o Hellen A. Terrwilligar	1842 - 1911	Headstone inscription
Leonard	Sarah A. Moore, w/o James A.	1842 - 1926	Headstone inscription
Leonard	W. H.	no dates	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Eleanor, w/o Francis	b. Jan. 20, 1816; d. July 8, 1898	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Francis, h/o Eleanor	b. March 30, 1817; d. Dec. 16, 1863	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Francis Jr.	b. March 19, 1843; d. May 11, 1852	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Harriet	b. Nov. 21, 1846; d. Sept. 16, 1857	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Kittie	b. Oct. 15, 1855; d. Feb. 11, 1857	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Laura M.	b. 1860; d. Aug. 20, 1898	Headstone inscription
Leslie	Mary	b. Dec. 14, 1844; d. Sept. 28, 1866	Headstone inscription
Letts	Benny, s/o Benjamin and Sarah Ann Letts	d. 1867	Headstone inscription.
Letts	Edward, Co. M, 21st N.Y. [Cav?]	d. Oct. 14, 1913, aged 78 Y'rs	Headstone inscription
Lewis	John E.	1840 - 1907	Headstone inscription
Lewis	Esther	1813 - 1901	Headstone inscription
Linn	Catherine Ann		Headstone inscription
Linn	Dewitt, s/o William and Mary A. Linn	b. June 9, 1817; d. May 27, 1872	Headstone inscription
Linn	Mary	d. January 13?, 1870	Headstone inscription
Linn	Mary A.	b. Jun 15, 1797 d. Jul 25, 1848	Headstone inscription
Linn	William	b. 1794; d. January 13, 1867	Headstone inscription
Livingston	Helen L., w/o Samuel	1839 - 1911?	Headstone inscription
Livingston	Lila	1870 - 1947	Headstone inscription
Livingston	Sammy, Jr.	d. January ??, 1890, Aged 22 Y's, 2 M's and 22 D's	Headstone inscription
Livingston	Samuel, h/o Helen L.	1843 - 1895	Headstone inscription
Locicero	Nellie B., d/o William F. Boom	1875 - 1941	Headstone inscription
Logan	Augustus E.	d. May 29, 1865 ae 19 yrs, 25 days	Child of D. & J. Logan Headstone inscription
Logan	Charles H.	d. Jan. 5, 1867 ae 22 yrs, 8 mos., 22 days	Child of D. & J. Logan Headstone inscription
Logan	Daniel, h/o Johan Davenport		Headstone inscription
Logan	David H.	d. Jan. 14, 1870 ae 17 yrs, 6 mos., 6 days	Child of D. & J. Logan Headstone inscription
Logan	Johan Davenport, w/o Daniel		Headstone inscription
Lord	Hettey Smith	d. Dec. 16, 1881, aged 87 years	"Mother" Headstone inscription
Lord	Jesse	d. Mar. 28, 1893, aged __ years	Headstone inscription
Lord	Julia F., wife of T. E. Lord, daughter of J. C. and M. L. Stowell	d. Dec. 16, 1877, aged 30 years & 12 days	Headstone inscription
Love	Eliza, wife of Isaac Love, daughter of Jasper and Debora Miller	d. Apr. __, 1852 aged 39 years	Headstone inscription
Love	Samuel	d. Apr. 9, 1881 aged 81 years	Headstone inscription
Love	Sarah, wife of Samuel	d. Feb. 13, 188 aged 74 years	Headstone inscription
Loveless	Belle, Dau. of George and Harriet Loveless	d. Nov. 29, 188_, aged 9 years & 6 months	Headstone inscription
Loveless	George W.	b. Feb. 16, 1841; d. Oct. 5, 1911	Headstone inscription
Loveless	Harriet E., wife of George W.	b. Dec. 19, 1840; d. Aug. 5, 1912	Headstone inscription
Lucas	Rosie		Headstone inscription
Lucas	Homer, s/o Asa M. and Pemilla A. Lucas	d. Feb. 6, 1840, aged 7 months and 6 days	Headstone inscription
Lucas	Henry, s/o Asa M. and Pemilla A. Lucas	d. May 29, 1834, aged 1 month and 2? days	Headstone inscription
Lucas	Alma Jerusha, d/o Asa M. and Pemilla A. Lucas	d. Feb. __ 1840	Headstone inscription
Lucke	Caroline L.	1848-1928	Headstone inscription
Lucke	Jennie A. C.	1875-1926	Headstone inscription
Lusk	John H.	d. Sept. 23, 1892, aged 82 years	Co. H, 137 Reg. N.Y.S.V. Headstone inscription
Lutilansky	Dora	1881 - 1950	Headstone inscription
Lydon	Gloria	May 13, 1932	Headstone inscription
Lygan	Lydia	1825 - 1855	Headstone inscription
Lyon	Jane	d. June 30, 1858, aged 47? years	Headstone inscription
Lyon	Margaret Freeman, Wife of Platt S. Lyon	d. May 30, 1879, aged 64 years	Headstone inscription
Lyon	Platt S.	d. May 20, 1882, aged 73 Years & 6 Mo.	"Thy will be done." Headstone inscription
Lyons	Anne, wife of John Lyons	b. Sept. 17, 1798; d. Apr. 10, 1884	Headstone inscription
Lyons	John	b. May 26, 1798; d. Nov. 26, 1884	Headstone inscription
Lyons	Joseph Moxon	b. Feb. 14, 1831; d. Feb. 6, 1874	Headstone inscription
Lyons	Julia Welch	b. July 31, 1844; d. Apr. 24, 1883?	Headstone inscription

Veterans are marked with a flag when found

Websites with City Cemetery Connections:

Fire Fighters' Memorial (off site)

Many, many thanks to Cathy Knauff for walking this cemetery, taking photos and transcribing the records from City Hall and other sources.

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