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August 21, 2025

DAR Unpublished Cemetery Records of Niagara County 1969

Jeanette Sheliga

Since the 1910s, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been transcribing unpublished records to help preserve them. They then publish these as part of the Genealogical Record Committee (GRC) Reports.

To learn more about these reports, you can read my blog: https://jeanettesgenealogy.com/dar-grc-reports-part-1-of-3-background/.

One of the GRC Reports is a 208-page volume (#317 of the Cemetery, Church, and Town Record Reports) from the DAR Niagara Falls Chapter (of which I am a member) of records that were copied from the Niagara County Historian’s Office.

The report lists the name of the person that was buried, born, died, and the name of the cemetery.

Here is the FamilySearch link to the volume (#317): https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSS9-J4SZ-S?.

Multiple volumes were put on the same microfilm reel. Here is the breakdown of the images:

  • Image 532 of 901 – Book Cover
  • Images 533-546 of 901 – Surname Index
  • Images 547-551 of 901 – Title Page and Front Matter
  • Images 552-700 of 901 – Alphabetical List of Burials in Niagara County Cemeteries
  • Images 701-748 of 901 – Alphabetical Addenda List of Burials in Niagara County Cemeteries

Many cemeteries were listed as being represented in the volume:

Cambria

  • #1 Pekin Pioneer Cemetery (aka Old Pekin)
  • #2 Mount View Cemetery
  • #4 North Ridge Cemetery
  • #6 Northeast Cambria Union Cemetery (aka Budd Road)
  • #7 Molyneaux Cemetery
  • Warren-Forsyth Cemetery (mistyped in the cemetery list as Warners Corners and Warner’s Private)
  • #15 Pomeroy Cemetery

Hartland

  • #1 Saint Patrick Cemetery
  • #2 LeValley Cemetery (aka Pearson Road)
  • #4 Hartland Central Cemetery

Lewiston

  • #1 Dickersonville Cemetery
  • #2 First Presbyterian Church Cemetery (aka Lewiston Village)

Lockport

  • #4 Stahler Cemetery (mistyped in the book as Stabler)
  • #5 Shaeffer Cemetery
  • #8 Cold Springs Cemetery
  • #11 Glenwood Cemetery
  • #14 Chestnut Ridge Cemetery

Newfane

  • #1 West Lake Road Cemetery (aka Olcott)
  • #2 Lakeview Cemetery
  • #3 Hess Road Cemetery
  • #6 Corwin Cemetery
  • #9 Wisner Cemetery

Niagara & Niagara Falls

  • #2 Oakwood Cemetery
  • #5 Witmer Cemetery

North Tonawanda & Wheatfield

  • #1 Ward Cemetery
  • #4 Saint Mark Lutheran Cemetery
  • #10 Sweeney Cemetery (aka City Cemetery)
  • #15 Wheatfield Cemetery

Pendleton

  • #3 Good Shepherd Cemetery
  • #5 Bear Ridge Cemetery
  • #8 Poole Cemetery (aka Beach Ridge)

Porter

  • #2 Old Fort Niagara Cemetery (1812 Fort Niagara Cemetery)
  • #3 Oakland Rural Cemetery (aka Hosmer Cemetery)
  • #5 Filmore-Halstead Cemetery
  • #6 Ransomville Cemetery
  • #9 Universal Presbyterian Cemetery

Royalton

  • #1 Orangeport Union Cemetery
  • #4 Royalton Union Cemetery (aka Dysinger Baptist)
  • #5 Gilbert Cemetery
  • #8 Ketchum Cemetery (aka Griswold Street Cemetery)
  • #9 Mount Ridge Cemetery
  • #10 Mabee Cemetery

Wilson

  • #1 Greenwood Cemetery

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February 10, 2025

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Burials, North Tonawanda

Jeanette Sheliga

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:

  • Day
  • Date
  • Number [a count of those added into this register]
  • Names
  • Age
  • B. C. C.
  • Residence
  • Date of death
  • Cause of death
  • Place of burial
  • Signature of Clergyman

In Volume 1 there were less than 100 burials recorded between August 1869 and July 1886. Images 60-62 of 276 can be found at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3WH-V9WV-L?i=59&cat=52640.

Volume 2 burials begin September 1883 and end October 1903. Images 149-154 of 276 can be found at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3WH-V947-G?i=148&cat=52640.

The burials in Volume 3 begin February 1904 and end April 1939. Images 240-249 of 276 can be found at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3WH-V9WF-B?i=239&cat=52640.

Of the burial listings, the following Niagara County cemeteries were found:

  • Cambria
  • Hartland
    • Hartland Central – Skeel’s
    • LeValley
  • Lewiston
    • Village Cemetery
  • Lockport
    • Cold Springs
    • Glenwood
  • Newfane
    • Wright’s Corners
  • Niagara Falls
    • Oakwood
  • North Tonawanda
    • Fairmount
    • Sweeney
    • Ward
  • Pendleton
    • Acacia Park
    • Bear Ridge
  • Royalton

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July 21, 2024

Niagara County, New York Cemeteries Booklet by Grapes, Clements, and Alder (1977)

Jeanette Sheliga

The following booklet has been digitized on FamilySearch at: http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/790934.

The booklet includes the following within it’s 15 pages:

  • Overview of Clarke Cemetery, Pendleton and how to locate it.
  • Overview of Pendleton Town Cemetery and how to locate it.
  • Clarke Cemetery tombstone reading.
  • Pendleton Town Cemetery tombstone reading.
  • Old Methodist Church Cemetery, Pendleton: how to locate it and a tombstone reading.
  • Poole Cemetery, Pendleton: how to locate it and a tombstone reading.
  • Bear Ridge #1 Cemetery, Pendleton: how to locate it, and a tombstone reading.
  • Notes from Bear Ridge Cemetery, Pendleton.
  • Notes from Wheatfield Cemetery.
  • Information on Pendleton and Wheatfield, NY.

Clark Cemetery is also known as the Clark Family Cemetery.
Pendleton Town Cemetery is also known as the King Family Cemetery.
Old Methodist Church Cemetery is also known as the Evangelical – Methodist Cemetery.
Poole Cemetery is also known as Beach Ridge – Poole – Andrus Cemetery.

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