Bios for the
​Palenville Cemetery History Walk 2021

Held on Saturday, June 19, 2021
from 11 am to 2 pm

 Can you add to the info that we have? Do you have photos, stories or artifacts that will add to their personal histories?
About 50 people attended the first Cemetery History Walk at the Palenville Cemetery on Saturday, June 19, 2021, from 11 am to 2 pm. Volunteers stood beside featured graves and told stories about the lives of these previous Palenville citizens.  Signs with their names and some photos remained in place for two weeks following the event so more people could enjoy a self-guided walk through Palenville's past. Organizer Eva Behr hopes that the History Walk will become an annual event.

Sponsors for the event included: The Bank of Greene County, Palenville Cemetery Board of Directors, Palenville The Hamlet, Inc. and Stewarts Shops. Restoration expertise was provided by The Albany Gravedigger, Christopher White, who was on site completing a repair of a broken gravestone.

If you'd like to help with this project, email us at donate2Palenville@gmail.com.
Eliza Deyo (the Curtis and Deyo families) - •Eliza’s stone is hand carved by her son, two of her children and several of their children are buried here. She was born in Catskill in 1867 and grew up in the area of Augustine Road. She had 11 children with William Curtis and is rumored to be Native American.  Her children were notable for their antics, and several newspaper articles attest to their notoriety.•have photos, stories, and newspaper articles

Hannah Palen •wife of tanner, raised two sets of grandkids, independent of husband (died) •have her entry in Trumpbour store ledger, located at the Vedder

​Rowland Trumpbour •family in the area for five generations•photos, stories, house still stands

Jennie Craft •grew up on Manorville Road•caretaker for first wife of Rowland (Rachel Wynkoop, have her story too)•photos of her, her house, diaries, read aloud from the diary!!!

Eva Trumpbour•school teacher, lived in New Jersey, came home on breaks, retired here•lots of photos, lots of stories, house still stands

Edward and Abraham Londo •Born in Saratoga Springs to a basket maker in an Indian Encampment, Edward and his three siblings learned the art of basket making prior to his father’s second marriage, at which point he left the encampment.  Many newspaper articles exist attesting to his guiding two presidents through the wilds of the Adirondacks and explaining his claim to being “The Last of the Mohawks.”  His son, Abraham, attended Rowena and died of influenza at age 18.•photo of Indian Encampment where he grew up, photo of baskets that are similar to ones he would have made in Palenville, his son went to Rowena, can we find a class photo?

Asa Mower•Long time resident of Palenville and a wood turner, he owned two turning mills and lived on Pine Ave with his wife, Cora Vedder, who was a laundress.  One of his turning mills was located where the Circle W is today and closely resembles it.•have photos, know his house, one turning mill was where the Circle W is, have photos of both turning mills in Palenville

Lewis Barton•Another turner, his turning mill is still standing on Malden Ave.  Artist George Hall painted his son in the turning mill, making souvenirs for the tourists.•the granddaughter marries a Post, Posts still own the house•we could show George Hall’s painting, the explanation says a lot about the context

Mary Whitney Mower•Raised by her aunt and uncle who lived next door, Mary married Elmer Mower at age 16 and they moved into a small house that still stands on Pine Ave.  She was a laundress, washing laundry for the boarding houses in the stream and drying and pressing the laundry in a shed that still stands.  She and her husband ran a store, located in their front yard on Pine Ave, where people could purchase groceries and hunting and fishing supplies. People who knew her recall her as kind and generous.•have photos, Eva lives in her laundry shed, I have a wash tub and scrub board and a mountain of laundry

Elmer Mower•A Palenville legend, Elmer was an Otis Elevated operator, a Rowena school janitor, a Palenville Cemetery caretaker, and ran a convenience store from his home on Pine Ave. •Four generations of Mowers are buried in one row, have photos, know his house, have his Rowena class photo.

Victor and Mildred Manning•donated land and cemetery, family lives in Birchwood Park, which they built, someone must have a photo

Gilbert Palen• Palenville tanners and brothers.  Their tannery was located at the entrance to the Clove, Palenville was renamed to honor their contributions to the area, when they ran out of hemlock trees for tanning the family moved on, but several stayed and many had died and been buried here during the time the Palen tannery was in operation. can we find tanning artifacts? A beam, a tanner’s knife, I know Art has that tool they used to separate the hemlock bark from the tree)

Sally Travis•As a single mother she owned land, ran a small boarding house, helped raise her granddaughter, and donated land to build the Gloria Dei church.•Myrtle Villa, still standing, Josephine Edward’s family bought it from Sally, maybe they have some photos or stories? She also donated the land for the Gloria Dei church.

Theodore Teale•A boarding house keeper for the Winchelsea, there was also a Teale House at the triangle, where he ran the Palenville Post Office for years.•have a picture of the Winchelsea and possibly Teale House•He’s in Beers prominent people

​Cecelia Palen•wife of James Palen, tanner, son of Gilbert and Hannah, buried here•James Palen 1810- July 1846 in Manhattan•both children, Frances, aged 6 month,  and Phebe, aged 7 years, died March 8, 1842 in Manhattan. Both children died on the same day in March.  By July her husband was dead as well.  She died the following year.  All three stones are broken into multiple pieces and the focus of our preservation efforts.  Help preserve their memory and their story.

Thanks to you, their stories live on.
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 A 501(c)3 nonprofit charity that promotes local community spirit and sense of place among the people of the Hamlet of Palenville.