I have seen a few different notations concerning an old burying ground along the Niagara River in Tonawanda where the bodies were removed to both the Sweeney Cemetery in North Tonawanda and the City Cemetery in Tonawanda.
Being curious as the bodies were relocated to a cemetery in Niagara County, I started doing some searches but wasn’t having much luck finding out when this Niagara River Cemetery existed and exactly where. I tried newspaper searches and found a reference to a recorded deed that I looked up on FamilySearch. The deed included a picture:
The deed was written in 1897 and recorded in 1900: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WX-XZY1?.
Having a few street points now, I looked at various Sanborn maps around the same time and found only one reference to the cemetery in the 1889 map (https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804tm.g3804tm_g063041889/?sp=7&st=image&r=-0.217,0.722,1.184,0.58,0) and not the 1886 or 1893 ones.
I would be curious to learn if Sweeney Cemetery records indicate the bodies that were once buried at this Niagara River Cemetery and when they were removed to it.