Mass Headstone

Mass Headstone

In August of the year 2000, Helen Burgio (Macedon Town Historian at the time) and the town of Macedon gained a grant from the Hoffman Foundation to assist in paying for a cemetery monument [which is referred to as the mass headstone on the website]. The mass headstone Helen listed fifteen specific names with their death dates and ages. The names on the mass headstone include,

Lemuel Spear, Barnabas Brown, Hannah Harwood, the two Scoville infants, Sally Stone, Hapsibella Putnam, Alexander Fish, Lydia Drake, Levi Wood, Miriam Hicks, Samuel Coon, Martha Brown, Nelson Lord and Elizabeth Stebbins. The mass headstone also listed "5 unknown" as the last line of the engraving.