Saint Mark Lutheran Cemetery (North Tonawanda)
September 29, 2025
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 Sawyer Creek Cemetery map (now known as Saint Mark Lutheran Cemetery) was originally found in Book 12 on Page 1147.
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Since the 1910s, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been transcribing unpublished records to help preserve them.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
July 21, 2025
Though it was initially established decades before as Sawyer Creek Cemetery, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church held a dedication on 8 August 1929 for the St. Mark’s Cemetery. I deduce that perhaps this is when the name was changed and the new cemetery board took over as there are not newspaper articles found for “St. Mark’s Cemetery” prior to 1929.
“Will Dedicate St. Mark’s Cemetery Thursday Night
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church cemetery, located on the Niagara Falls Boulevard, about one half mile north of Wurlitzer, will be dedicated Thursday evening at 8 P. M.
Members of the congregation will assemble at the Parish house on Washington street at 7:20 P.M. and will proceed in a body to the cemetery. Dedicatory ceremonies include singing by the congregation and an address by the pastor of the church, Rev. Paul Fretthold.
The cemetery will be administered by a cemetery board consisting of Charles Meyers, superintendent; Edward Ullmann, Gustave Broecher, Gustave Durow and Martin Starck.
A trust fund will provide maintenance for the cemetery.”1