Join the Edinburg Historical Society  on 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 19, at Sand Hill School on Tange Road when Darlene and Fred Lee offer a presentation on Isaac Thayer and other “hometown” patriots from the Revolutionary War whose final resting places are location in town cemeteries.

“Headstones can reveal things about the person there interred,” Darlene Lee says. “It turns out, there is science to the type of engraving on the stone.  The artwork can tell us about his belief in the hereafter. Poetry was frequently engraved on gravestones.” 

Thayer is buried in the Partridge Cemetery, on Sinclair Road. Little was known of him, according to Darlene Lee, who is a member of the Schenectada chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. His headstone was darkened with lichen and the inscription was barely readable, when a small group of volunteers found him.

If you are interested in learning more about the history of Edinburg and its people, please come to our meetings and consider joining the society. We plan a number of other programs and will have open houses at our museums this summer and more events in the fall.