Program

NYS Cemetery

Subject

Cemetery

Location

412 State Rte 26, Pitcher, NY 13136, USA

Lat/Long

42.5877, -75.8489

Grant Recipient

Chenango Chapter - NYS Archaeological Association

Hinman Cemetery, located in the town of Pitcher in Chenango County, New York, includes burials as early as 1803. Examples of the work of early 19th century sandstone and marble gravestone carvers can be found here. This includes the 1833 marble stone for the grave of Mr. Jonas Hinman, signed by gravestone carver Caleb Whiting Jr. of Virgil, New York. In addition to the signature of the carver, Mr. Hinman’s gravestone depicts the imagery of a flying, trumpeting angel holding a scroll in its hand above the clouds. According to the second volume of James H. Smith’s 1880 History of Chenango and Madison Counties, Mr. Hinman was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and an early resident of Pitcher, having come to the area from Trumbull, Connecticut around the year 1800.

Along with Caleb Whiting Jr., it is believed that the work of gravestone carvers Jonas W. Stewart Jr., Sidney R. Ford, and Joseph Crandall, and potentially David Manrose and Asa Joiner of Cortland County, can be found in Hinman Cemetery. One of the earliest burials in Hinman Cemetery is the grave of Anstes Hakes, who died June 13, 1803 at 25 years old. According to the Find a Grave listing for Hinman Cemetery, one of the last to be buried here was Rachel Schemeley, who died in 1920. However, the majority of the 146 burials listed on Find a Grave for Hinman Cemetery date to the early to mid-19th century.