In 1890, author and illustrator, Frank Raymond Rosseel, wrote a book “A Back Number Town: Lewiston, New York.”1 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 through the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church, with its tombstones dating back to 1810. The yard is full of graves, some marked by a rough, undressed slab of stone, and many by appropriate monuments. The church was originally a union church and used by all denominations, and its yard became the common resting-place of all the village, as they dropped out one by one from the ranks of the living. Here, side by side, lie the leading men and women of the town, and its humbler inhabitants. Notice how many were born in New England. Five generations of the Cooke family are represented here, the first of whom came to Lewiston in 1802.”2
The book included an illustration by the author of the Presbyterian Church and Cemetery:3
The illustration of the church is similar to the one found on the information sign at the cemetery:
- Frank Raymond Rosseel, A Back Number Town: Lewiston, New York (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1890).
- Frank Raymond Rosseel, A Back Number Town: Lewiston, New York (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1890), image 22 of 65; digital images, Google Books (http://books.Google.com : accessed 25 November 2023).
- Rosseel, A Back Number Town, image 32 of 65.