Taking up where we left off, we proceeded south from Bouckville towards Hamilton on State 12B. Arriving in Hamilton, about an hour or so from dusk, I took the first street I could find that would take me over to county 83 north that runs between Hamilton and Madison passing just west of Lake Moraine and the Americana Village. At the extreme northern end of the Town of Hamilton / Village of Hamilton lies an old cemetery on one's left as one heads north along 83. This is, I believe, the old village cemetery as I was later to learn contains either the founder of or first resident of Hamilton. Who this man was, escapes me at the moment. Years ago when my parents were thinking of names for my new sibling to be and when picking out a boy's name, they thought of using the name Daniel. At the time my grandpa said he knew of no one previously in the family having that name. That was in 1964. My sibling turned out to be a brother and he received the name Daniel. His middle name, Wesley, came from my Mom's Dad's middle name. After I got started researching my family tree in the late 1970s, I discovered that my grandpa's great-grandfather's name was Daniel! I found out this fact from reading an obit of one of my grandpa's aunts. In her early life she lived a short time with her grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Stowell of Hamilton. So that was my first clue to a Hamilton connection. Several years ago, a cousin from Otselic, son of the lady we'd visited on Sunday, mentioned that his daughter had been on a school outing to the Americana Village which has an old school house, some other outbuildings, perhaps a church and an old cemetery. So back several years ago I visited this because his daughter said that some of the tombstones showed Stowell on them - which of course excited the little girl as that is her surname as well. Turned out that this cemetery was not a creation of the village but was in fact a real cemetery - with at least one son of Daniel Stowell buried there. Subsequent research in Wampsville has led me to believe that my ancestor's farm was at or very near the present site of Americana Village. Neat huh? At the time, I'd had no luck finding a grave of Daniel. When I was last in New York, prior to this current visit, for the funeral of Dad's sister, this cousin and his family along with myself went to this particular village cemetery in Hamilton. After about 30 minutes of looking we came across the grave of our common ancestor and his wife. The purpose of the visit this Wednesday was to check on the condition of the graves - nearly 7 years later. My cousin had his snow shovel along which we put to good use, uncovering my ancestor's stone. It was as I had found it 7 years ago, flat on its back, off of its pedestal. His wife's stone is still standing. Both stones are of thick marble? about 3 inches thick, 24 inches wide and probably 4 to 5 feet in height. In other words, Daniel's stone will take some hefty folk to retrieve it from the hold the ground has on it and reposition it on a pedestal. The odd thing about the name on the stone - listed as Daniel Stowal - his wife as Gertrude Stowel. His generation only used one 'L', while mine uses 2. After getting a couple of photos, we proceeded to the village 'square' to see when the Hamilton library and/or town offices might be open to see if we could inquire about getting the stone reset. The village offices being closed, we proceeded homeward. Next installment - Visit to Madison County - Snow! - more cemeteries. Tim