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St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Burials, North Tonawanda
One of the FamilySearch microfilms that has been digitized is the St. Mark’s Episcopal Church records. Included in the records is a section titled “Burials” in which there is a chronological listing of deceased members. Information includes: In Volume 1 there were less than 100 burials recorded between August 1869 and July 1886. Images 60-62…
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Presbyterian Church and Cemetery (Lewiston)
In 1890, author and illustrator, Frank Raymond Rosseel, wrote a book “A Back Number Town: Lewiston, New York.” This book is available online at Google Books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Back_Number_Town/PMdoUY5YuyAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 Picture of the book cover taken at the New York State Library in Albany: Within the pages, the author writes about the Lewiston Village Cemetery: “Come and wander…
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1887 Orangeport Cemetery Map, Royalton
The following digitized map was found on searchiqs.com. Info Quick Solutions, Inc. (IQS) is a site that the Niagara County Clerk has partnered with to digitize many of their books and maps. This two-part map of Orangeport Cemetery was originally found in Book 12 on Pages 1126-1127.
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1879 Oakwood Cemetery Map (aka Lewiston Village Cemetery), Lewiston
The following digitized map was found on searchiqs.com. Info Quick Solutions, Inc. (IQS) is a site that the Niagara County Clerk has partnered with to digitize many of their books and maps. This map of Oakwood Cemetery was originally found in Book 12 on Page 1125.
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Freeman Cemetery Niagara County Historian’s Office Folder, Lockport
The Niagara County Historian’s Office (139 Niagara St., Lockport) has a folder for the small Freeman Cemetery located on Leete Rd. and Sunset Drive in Lockport. The small area in a plowed field off the road several hundred feet was once the Wilson Farm. The pictures above are shared with permission pending credit given to…
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St. Patrick’s Cemetery Books by Shelley Richards, Lockport
Local genealogist, Shelley Richards, has compiled and researched two volumes of books on St. Patrick’s Cemetery. The first volume came out in 2016 and the second volume in 2017. The first volume contains: The second volume contains: The books can be purchased locally at the Niagara County Historical Society (215 Niagara St., Lockport) amongst other…
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Of Grave Importance: The Restoration of Institutional Cemeteries by David Mack-Hardiman, Lockport
I visited the Town of Lockport’s Historical Society yesterday. They are housed in an old one-room schoolhouse on Lower Mountain Road: They were selling books as a fundraiser for the society and I picked up Of Grave Importance: The Restoration of Institutional Cemeteries by David Mack-Hardiman: Within this small book there are a few pages…
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1903 Cold Springs Cemetery Map, Lockport
The following digitized map was found on searchiqs.com. Info Quick Solutions, Inc. (IQS) is a site that the Niagara County Clerk has partnered with to digitize many of their books and maps. This two-part map of Cold Springs Cemetery was originally found in Book 12 on Pages 1130-1131.
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Ancestry.com: U.S., Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904
A new-to-me collection on Ancestry.com is titled: U.S., Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1861-1904. The collection consists of an alphabetical file of 3×4″ cards that were microfilmed by the National Archives. These cards kept record of when a headstone was requested for a veteran. Here is an example: You can see that…
