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Historian’s Folder of the Orthodox Friends Cemetery, Hartland

Jeanette Sheliga

This cemetery is next to the Cobblehurst house which was once the meeting place for the Friends. The Niagara County Historian’s Office (139 Niagara St., Lockport) has a folder for the Orthodox Friends Cemetery in Hartland (folder 25-04-0042.01). Within the folder contains a handwritten list that was likely a tombstone reading that is notated that it was donated 4 June 1979 (indicating that the reading was done prior to that).

Included in this folder was also a list of veterans marked with GAR markers:

There is also this 1980 typed list compiled by the Town Historian at the time, Florence Arnold. This identical list is available on FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4L-D7RY-N

There was also this note about the cemetery:

The pictures above are shared with permission pending credit given to the Niagara County Historian’s Office. Learn more about the Niagara County Historian’s Office at: 
https://www.niagaracounty.com/Departments/Historian