By Dick Williams
The Town of Kirkland has two new roadside markers to identify Revolutionary War veterans.
On Kellogg Street just west of Chuckery Corners is the Kellogg or Chuckery Cemetery, which dates from the 1820 period.
Loomis Kellogg is the Revolutionary War veteran who is buried there and is honored on the new sign. Kellogg died in October 1849 at age 90.
Other veterans lie buried in the Barker Road Cemetery east of Lumbard Road.
They are Uzal Barker and Samuel Whitney.
Barker was also a deacon and minister and died in January 1817 at age 84. Whitney died in July 1822 at age 73; he was born in Ridgefield, CT.
The two signs were furnished by the William Pomeroy Foundation of Syracuse.
Kirkland Town Historian Richard Williams coordinated the project, and Jon Scott, Kirkland Highway Superintendent, and his employees installed the two markers.
They are multi-colored, very attractive, and a fine tribute to the Revolutionary War veterans who settled here with their families to begin life on the Western frontier.
The two cemeteries are officially deemed abandoned as there are no boards of trustees or current ownership.
The State of New York has laws pertaining to these abandoned cemeteries and requires towns to provide minimum maintenance services such as mowing grass. No state funds are available to maintain stone markers.
Barker Road and Kellogg join three other abandoned cemeteries in the Town of Kirkland: Brimfield Street, Manchester in the hamlet of Kirkland, and the Old Burying Ground on Kirkland Avenue.