First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
October 30, 2025
The DAR conducted a tombstone reading at Lewiston Cemetery in 1934. It was published in Volume 69 of the Genealogical Records Committee Reports.
FamilySearch has microfilmed the volume and digitized it (DGS 7764385). The tombstone reading are images 113-162 of 989.
October 5, 2025
Spread across three pages, the Niagara County NYGenWeb site has lists of names of those buried in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lewiston.
Surnames A-F: https://niagara.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/oakwooda.html
Surnames G-O: https://niagara.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/oakwoodg.html
Surnames P-Z: https://niagara.nygenweb.net/cemeteries/oakwoodp.html
September 28, 2025
The DAR conducted a tombstone reading at the old part of Lewiston Cemetery in 1929. It was published in Volume 25 of the Genealogical Records Committee Reports.
FamilySearch has microfilmed the volume and digitized it (DGS 7764367). The tombstone reading are images 574-587 of 954.
August 21, 2025
Since the 1910s, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been transcribing unpublished records to help preserve them.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:
Many cemeteries were listed as being represented in the volume:
Cambria
Hartland
Lewiston
Lockport
Newfane
Niagara & Niagara Falls
North Tonawanda & Wheatfield
Pendleton
Porter
Royalton
Wilson
February 10, 2025
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 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:
January 30, 2025
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:
December 2, 2024
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 Lewiston Village (aka Oakwood Cemetery) was originally found in Book 12 on Page 1125.