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Ithaca City Cemetery (N)
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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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
	Newell	Ira N.	d. Nov. 9, 1839, 1y, 6m	Headstone Inscription second inscription
	Newell	Nelson G.		Headstone Inscription first inscription on stone
	Newman	Levi	d. Dec. 27, 1875, 78y	Headstone Inscription
	Neyhart	Addison, s/o Henry & Anna	aged 5m, 5d	Headstone Inscription
	Neyhart	Henry	d. Jan 14, 1861, 52y, 1m	Headstone Inscription entry for Henry
	Neyhart	Anna, his wife	d. Jul. 12, 1846, 31y, 8m, 8d	Headstone Inscription entry for Anna/same stone
	Nickolas	Anna	1857 - 1916	Headstone Inscription
	Niver	Albert L.	June 7, 1845 - Feb 28, 1912	Headstone Inscription First entry
	Niver	Susan J. Hopkins, his wife	Nov. 16, 1845 - Feb. 23, 1900	Headstone Inscription Second entry
	Niver	Sally, wife of David Niver		Headstone Inscription
	Nixon	William	1819-1895	Headstone inscription
	Nixon	Addie, his wife	1823-18	Headstone inscription
	Nolan	Ida M.	1866 -1942	Headstone Inscription
	Nolan	John J.	1862 - 1911	Headstone Inscription
	Nordengren	Hanna	d. Apr. 10, 1894, 45y	Headstone Inscription
	Northrup	George Huntington	Nov. 16, 1845 - Jul. 27, 1895	Headstone Inscription First entry
	Northrup	Adelaide	Feb. 4, 1852 - Nov 29., 1944	Headstone Inscription second entry
	Northrup	John Bruce	Jul 21, 1873 -	Headstone Inscription third entry
	Northrup	Jesse Louise	Oct. 23, 1879 - Jun. 2	Headstone Inscription fourth entry
	Northrup	George W.		Headstone Inscription
	Northrup	Henry Gregory	1854 - 1919	Headstone Inscription
	Northrup	Jennie	1863 - 1942	Headstone Inscription
	Northrup	John	Jul. 16, 1821 - Jul. 11, 1909	Headstone Inscription First entry
	Northrup	Louisa Abigail Gregory, his wife	Sep. 21, 1822 - Nov. 12. 1903	Headstone Inscription second entry
	Northway	Rufus		Headstone Inscription Cant' read
	Inscribed Halsey H. Norton and Family			Headstone Inscription
	Norton	William H.	Dec. 17, 1834 - Sep. 15, 1901	Headstone Inscription First entry
	Norton	Hellen L. Benjamin, his wife	Dec. 6, 1833 - Jul. 10, 1910	Headstone Inscription second entry
	Norton	Clark K.	d. Jul. 21, 1893, 86y	Headstone Inscription
	Norton	Diantha		Headstone Inscription Can't read
	Norton	Elizabeth, wife of Clark K. Norton	d. Apr. 30, 1883, 76y	Headstone Inscription
	Norton	Halsey	d. May 27, 1875, 55y, 11m, 5d	Headstone Inscription
	Norton	James Norton, Co. D, 143 N.Y. Inf.		Headstone Inscription
	Norton	Nelson		Headstone Inscription Can't read
	Nourse	George Francis	1830 -1898	Headstone Inscription First entry
	Nourse	Joan Beers Nourse	1834 - 1894	Headstone Inscription second entry

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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