Deborah Lilly - Lilly Cemetery, Castle Creek, NY - Zinc Headstones on Waymarking.com

This marker is on a cement slab.

The Lilly family is one of the original families that settled this area, known as the Lilly district. Eleven of the 64 graves in the Lilly Cemetery belong to a Lilly.
Annals of Castle Creek
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"Foster Lilly and wife, Deborah Hall Lilly, with a goodly number of children, ...from Ashtield, Mass.. which had for years been the dwelling place of many of the name. They came in the usual manner of that time, with a good and substantial team of horses and wagon. Foster purchased a large tract of land in the so called "Boston Purchase.""
"On one occasion as Foster Lilly was about to make a trip to get supplies, a neighbor gave him a very handsome ten dollar bill, with which to buy grain for food. The first dealer to whom he offered it refused it, saying it was not good. When paying his bill to a second dealer, he espied this bill, saying, "Oh what a pretty bill, I want it." Lilly told him it was said to be not good, but as he persisted, a deal was effected. I have been told that had it not been for the grain purchased with that bill, the family would have perished with hunger. In those days of wildcat money it was very difficult to determine if a bill was genuine. "

Date of death (optional): 05/10/1881 Headstone text (optional): Deborah Lilly died May 10, 1881, aged 71 years Lilly Christ is my hope 1884 Website: [Web Link] Additional Coordinates (optional): Not Listed Date of birth (optional): Not listed

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