GILLILAND CEMETERY

ROUTE 9, TOWN OF PLATTSBURGH
CLINTON COUNTY, NEW YORK

By: David C. Glenn
March 16, 2009

The earliest burial in the burying ground was in 1810, however it did not become a separate parcel from the Gilliland Farm until January 29, 1848 when Henry P. Gilliland (Grandson of the original settler and son of the second William who created the farm.) and his wife Abigail Thurber Gilliland deeded it to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Port Jackson.

Gilliland Cemetery was first incorporated as a cemetery November 4, 1876.  Several years after the church at Port Jackson went out of existence it was incorporated again under a new organization on October 21, 1958.  It is the final resting place for members of the area community with names such as Lyon, Beardsley, Day, Herewith, Weatherwax, Gilliland, Grant, and a former commander of Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Colonel Robert Moll, to name a few.

In 2002 the Town of Plattsburgh erected a blue and yellow NYS historic marker to commemorate the site which reads as follows: