Town of Smithville - Chenango County, NY

Cemeteries

Smithville Flats Cemetery Association

President: Bruce Kinney, 607.743.7654
Secretary/Treasurer: Lynne Conklin, 607.656-8361
Trustees: Doug Kenyon, Robert Whitmore
Annual Meeting in October
The Smithville Flats Cemetery Association has responsibility for maintenance of 2 cemeteries: the Old or Upper Cemetery and the Lower or Maple Grove Cemetery. (They are known by both names)
For information/maintenance questions on those cemeteries, people should contact Lynn Conklin, Sec'y/Treasurer.

The Town of Smithville has maintenance responsibility for the rural/abandoned cemeteries: Cowles, Knickerbocker, Loomis, Miller, Perkins, Towslee-Pond, Waldron and Wilcox. For information/maintenance questions, contact the Town Clerk/Historian Alison Owens, 607.656.7969 opt. 1.

The Wilcox Cemetery in the Town of Smithville, Chenango County NY will be the site of some renovations this spring in preparation to honor the Revolutionary War soldier buried there, Job Wilcox (1743-1808). The Town of Smithville has received a partial grant to replace the barbed wire fencing along the front with a board fence. The Town will be paying for the remainder of the cost of the fence from the 2026 Town budget. In the middle of the board fence will be placed the original iron gate, refurbished with the addition of a "W" in the middle to designate "Wilcox". The ceremony and a special Sons of the American Revolution plaque to honor Corporal Job Wilcox will be placed by family members sometime this summer. Watch for the date and time and plan to join us!
The Smithville Historical Society has agreed to ask for donations to refurbish the badly rusted gate and to provide some incidentals such as grass seed, soil, gravel and perennial flowers. The bid for the refurbished gate is $1,716 for which about half has been collected in donations.
If you would like to contribute to the Wilcox Cemetery renovation project, please contact or send your contribution to the Smithville Historical Society @ P.O. Box 176, Smithville Flats NY 13841. The Smithville Historical Society website is: https://www.smithvillehistory.org/ .

Any overage in donations collected will be applied toward resetting the gravestone of 3 yr old Melvin Tyler, (son of Harry & Eunice Tyler) in the Knickerbocker Cemetery. Melvin's stone was missing for over 50 years and was discovered last fall for sale on Facebook Marketplace. Through diligent efforts on the part of many people it was recovered from the Putnam County, NY area. A special ceremony to dedicate his recovered stone will be held later in the summer.