Pine Plains Cemetery

Perpetuating Your Family History

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From all of us at Pine Plains Cemetery

Respectfully maintained since 1812

Open Monday - Friday 8 am to 12 pm

8686 Henry Clay Blvd.

Clay, NY 13041

315-652-1354

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ORIGINALLY PINE PLAINS CEMETERY WAS KNOWN AS THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY, APRIL 9, 1812. PETER YOUNG, KILLED BY A FALLING TREE BECAME THE FIRST INTERMENT ON APRIL 26, 1812. THE LOCATION WAS WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS SECT. 1 AND IS AT THE SE CORNER OF THE PRESENT CEMETERY. TO THE WEST IS WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE TOBIAS SHAVER CEMETERY AND AS TIME WENT ON THIS WAS ACQUIRED AND INCORPORATED ALONG WITH LAND TO THE NORTH WHICH WAS ACQUIRED FROM A SARAH BUTTON. JUNE 12, 1886 THE CEMETERY WAS INCORPORATED AND KNOWN AS PINE PLAINS CEMETERY. IN JUNE 1930 DR. DA YOUNG DONATED $1000 TOWARD THE DIRECTION OF A STORAGE VAULT AND THE BOARD MEMBERS WERE TO RAISE ANOTHER $1000 BY SUBSCRIPTION. THE VAULT WAS ERECTED IN 1930. WE HAVE A LARGE KINNEY MONUMENT IN SECT. 1 AND IT IS BELIEVED A MISS KINNEY WAS THE 1ST SCHOOL TEACHER IN THE TOWN OF CLAY. AMONG OUR INTERMENTS ARE VETERANS OF ALL THE WARS THE REVOLUTION ON THROUGH TO DATE. UNTIL THE EARLY 1930'S PINE PLAINS WAS KNOWN CHIEFLY AS A PROTESTANT CEMETERY (PRIESTS AND FAMILY CHOICE) TRADITIONAL INTERMENTS FACE THE EAST AND WAS STANDARD IN THE OLDER SECTIONS OF THE CEMETERY. IN SECTIONS 6 AND 7, HOWEVER A MODULAR PLAN WAS ADOPTED AND BURIALS MAY FACE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST. ALSO IN THESE TWO SECTIONS MONUMENTS MUST HAVE BASES AND IN GROUND (FLUSH) MARKERS MAY BE USED.