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LAING CEMETERY
Town of Wilton

Laing Cemetery, Town of Wilton, is recorded in Volume 4, pages 573-574,
of C. E. Durkee's Epitaphs of Saratoga County, N.Y.   Sylvester's 1878 
History of Saratoga County, page 464, locates this cemetery on the former 
John Laing farm, near Emerson's Corners, "on the rounded summit of the hill,
in the midst of what is now a beautiful meadow."  The cemetery stones were 
removed from the original location and can now be found within Prospect Hill
Cemetery, lot 322, in the Town of Saratoga.

Laing, John   "In memory of Mr. John Laing, 
Mason, who was born in Langholm, in the County 
of Roxborough, in the Shire of Dumfriece in 
Scotland and Emigrated to Palmertown in the State 
of Newyork, and followed Merchandising until 
March 23rd 1793, and then expired in hope of a 
Blessed Immortality, in the 67th year of his Age."  

Lang, Helen  d Feb 27, 1801, 68th yr.  Wife of John

Lang, Robert  d Dec 8, 1809, 48th yr.

Lang, Walter  d Jan 16, 1810, 38th yr.

Laing, Helen  "a child"  (per Sylvester's History)

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