Village Historian

I want to research some of the oldest houses in Delhi. Delhi was settled after the end of the Revolutionary War, around 1784. One of the first settlers was George Fisher, a Hessian mercenary who decided to stay in America after the war. All the houses built in that period were log cabins with the first frame houses built after 1790. I believe Fisher, also spelled Fischer, lived in the block between Franklin St and Division St, Second Street and Main Street. This was one… Read More

A small crew installed the abandoned gravestone of a former Hamden,  NY woman, Elizabeth B. Russell, who died Oct 30, 1874, aged 27 yrs,  11 mos and 2 days, in the West Delhi Cemetery. Elizabeth and her  husband, Robert H. Russell, lived in Hamden but went out to Missouri  in the 1870’s. They had a child there and were coming back to Hamden  when Elizabeth died somewhere along the way. No one knows where  she’s buried but not… Read More

by Marianne Greenfield, Delhi Historian

There are several reasons why a gravestone may not be in it’s original location. One scenario is when a family member dies they get their own gravestone. Then when another family member dies the family decide it’s time to erect a larger gravestone or monument where everyone’s name can be memorialized. Then the original gravestone may be removed and repurposed. I occasionally find those gravestones on the stone wall.