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Nichols Cemeteries
East Nichols Cemetery
Also known as Dunham Cemetery
Asbury Cemetery
Also known as Asbury Church Cemetery
From _The Historical gazetteer of Tioga County_, 1785-1888, compiled and edited by W. B. Gay, pg. 312, Town of Nichols: "The first church in the town was the old Asbury Methodist church. It was built in 1822, on land given by Judge Coryell on the lower border of his estate ; a plot of ground above [upriver, or east] the church being set off and reserved by him as a burial ground for himself and family." This is the Coryell Cemetery.
"The ground below [downriver, or west] was given by Mr. Palmer for a common, burial ground." This is the Asbury Cemetery.
This old cemetery (very small burial ground) is known by "locals" as the Old Preshur Cemetery. It's located on the top of a small, steep hill, (overlooking the Susquehanna River) behind the old Nichols Highway Department about 1 mile east of the Nichols Town Hall on East River Road. Surrounding area is known to be full of poison ivy/oak, so there are no known photos of the 3 known burials there.
This burial ground has long been abandoned. There was a document in Nichols Town Clerk's office which some unnamed person documented three burial headstones which were legible at the time when it was explored (Feb 1968). The surrounding land excavated in 1969-70 time period when the "new" Route 17 was built. This area was apparently at one time, a old Indian burial ground.
Pearl Cemetery
Also known as Red Brush Road Cemetery
This cemetery is located in a field near power lines about 400-500 foot from the road. Extremely bad shape - not one headstone was standing upright. Cemetery long ago abandoned with several field stones not inscribed or have worn off over the years.
A small family cemetery, long ago abandoned & terribly overgrown is located on private property (NO TREPASSING without prior permission). There are many stones that are unreadable and fallen over but I have documented those 19 which are readable.
It's located between 1/4 and 1/2 mile through the fields on the right side of the dirt road on McCoy Road, Nichols, Tioga County, NY. It's just before you approach the NY - PA line where road name changes to Jacobs Road at the PA state line. It's located in a grove of trees way up the hill, with NO road access. This area overlaps between the two states (NY and PA).
McCoy Road is located at the intersection of Waite Rd where it intersects with Sibley and McCoy Roads.
This cemetery is located in a field near power lines about 400-500 foot from the road. Extremely bad shape - not one headstone was standing upright. Cemetery long ago abandoned with several field stones not inscribed or have worn off over the years.
Lounsberry is a area 4 1/2 miles east of the center of the village & within the borders of the Town of Nichols and that the cemetery is located 1.1 miles east of Exit #63 (located at Stanton Hill Rd) off Rt. 17C (future Interstate 86)on what is now called East River Road.
This cemetery is located in a area of a cow pasture (on the left hand side of the road) but is completely surrounded by electric fence. It's very old & the owner's of the Donnelly farm, keeps it mowed pretty well. Many of the stones have fallen over and some are extremely hard to read - others have not weathered time well (unreadable).
It is said that there is a cemetery here, but from aerial photos it doesn't appear to be there anymore. The location is based on a 1869 map of the area. In some records it is called Hyatt Cemetery or Route 283 Cemetery. On the 1869 map, this cemetery is located just south of the Hyatt Ferry crossing between the river and a canal. Flooding over the years has probably buried all evidence of it, but was know to be there in 1927.
Sometime after 1927 it seems that the State highway department in developing route 283, relocated the graves and tombstones to another location as yet discovered.