Grave site location of James McKown in Greenbush Reformed Church Cemetery, East Greenbush, NY


James Mckown (1745-1812) was the older brother of William, Robert, Barnard, and Mary McKown, the five children who landed in North America with their father John in 1767. The family was in Cherry Valley, NY in 1778, but the settlement was abandoned for a while after the November 1778 massacre. James, William and Barnard moved to and stayed in the Albany area. Robert and Mary returned to Cherry Valley.
James married Margaret Campbell (born Margaret Shannon) after her first husband died. Her gravestone is beside his, and next to the
obelisk of Samuel and Sarah Campbell, her first husband's parents.

  The weathered gravestone of James McKown in the Greenbush Reformed Church Cemetery, East Greenbush.






 

Google Earth image of part of the Greenbush Reformed Church Cemetery, East Greenbush, NY
showing location of James McKown's gravestone and the Campbell memorial obelisk [Google Earth kml file for this point]


Some stepchildren of James McKown, and a McKown relative who married one of the stepchildren, are buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, Castleton NY.
William McKown and descendants who lived in McKownville are mostly in Prospect Hill Cemetery
Some others, related through Robert McKown, are in Albany Rural Cemetery.

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