• Cemetery hours 5:00 A.M. to dark.
• ​No hunting, trapping, or poaching (this includes hunting onto or from cemetery lands to or from adjacent lands).
• No camping (includes loitering overnight for next-day funeral, burial, or memorial).
• No fires (excluding controlled burning of debris by cemetery staff with permit).
• No excessive or unnecessary noise (excluding cemetery staff maintenance equipment).
• Walking and picnicking allowed.
• Cemetery reserves right to remove unsightly objects at its discretion.
• No bushes, trees, or flowers may be planted near gravesites. (Plantings prior to 2023 will be removed if they encroach on neighboring property, become a hazard as a result of severe weather or other acts of God, or encroach on grave markers, tombstones, caskets, vaults, or boundary fencing.)
• No glass bottles allowed.
• No permanent lighting allowed at gravesites.
• No climbing trees.
• No ad-hoc burials. (This includes burials without coordination with cemetery staff and without use of funeral home/funeral director services.)
• Headstone cleaning with D2 biological solution only. ( We will not preclude family members from cleaning their families headstones with D2, but ask that they attend a one-time training seminar with cemetery staff. No good-will/good-intention cleaning by third parties allowed without cemetery staff approval.)
• Be respectful of other visitors.
• Absolutely no headstone repair may be conducted without cemetery staff (excluding aforementioned cleaning protocol listed on this page).
• Only cemetery staff personnel may repair fencing without prior approval from cemetery staff.

We wish to emphasize the concept of stewardship, as we are a private family cemetery, and do not offer perpetual care. Candidly, the cost of burial in our cemetery is low because we are generally a poor community. Annual burials have been insufficient to cover even the basest of care for at least fifty years. While we recognize that those living who have loved ones interred hope to see impeccable grounds, maintained as if by perpetual allotment, the simple truth is: No such fund exists. Nor has that level of care ever been promised. We maintain the cemetery as a true labor of love. We have a outsized financial stake that we do not expect the cemetery could ever repay. As such, we ask that those wishing to be interred, or have their loved ones or friends interred, do not attempt to haggle or barter. If you believe you are one of the rare few willing to volunteer to help without any expectation of compensation of any kind, please feel free to contact us. If you are willing to help on occasion without any expectation of compensation of any kind, feel free to contact us likewise. For reasons of liability, no work of any kind may be conducted without prior notice. If you wish to place flowers at your loved ones site, understand we will remove them at will if they are goshe, interfere with site maintenance, or if they are planted in a permanent nature (such as bushes, shrubs, etc.). The amount of money necessary to prevent these things from encroaching on headstones over time is astronomical. We have cleared out these items planted decades ago by well-meaning people, only to discover long-lost headstones and markers as old as two centuries. Our primary purpose is to honor the deceased. We cannot do that if their stones are uprooted by bushes, trees, and so forth.

Further, all headstone cleaning and repair must be coordinated. We have begun a program of maintenance of old stones using the proper equipment and cleaners. Tremendous permanent damage has been done by people who thing a little warm soapy water won't hurt (it will), or a little cement or epoxy from the local hardware store is fine for broken stones (it isn't).

Additionally, we do not allow ad-hoc burials. Although we are a private cemetery, we concur with New York State that aside from purchasing burial plots directly from us, all other arrangements (i.e. digging, installing vault, installing headstone, etc.), must be made through a licensed funeral home. We will of course assist by providing cemetery rules, availing access to the cemetery, and communicating professionally with all parties, in order to facilitate the smoothest possible outcome for your loved one’s final rest.

There are a great many people who just enjoy walking Butler Road, visiting the cemetery, and even picnicking. We encourage and allow those activities. When engaged in such activities we just ask that children and the occasional adult with a good deal of energy simply respect the hallowed ground they are on. Many very wonderful people once stood where you stand now.

Finally, in addition to illegal activity codified in Federal, State, or local law, and those listed above, the following activities are not allowed: Accessing adjacent private land from cemetery land, snowmobiling, or any other off-road vehicle use which is generally considered primarily recreational in purpose or design.

Last updated June 28, 2023

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