Universal Presbyterian Cemetery Archives

November 28, 2025

Universal Presbyterian Cemetery Index and Tombstone Reading (1935), Porter

The DAR conducted a tombstone reading at Presbyterian Cemetery between 1934-5. It was published in Volume 69 of the Genealogical Records Committee Reports.

FamilySearch has microfilmed the volume and digitized it (DGS 7764385). An index of names are images 177-186 of 989. A note at the end of the index states that the names in the index were copied from the original record owned by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo.

The tombstone reading are images 187-210 of 989.

August 21, 2025

DAR Unpublished Cemetery Records of Niagara County 1969

Since the 1910s, the Daughters of the American Revolution have been transcribing unpublished records to help preserve them.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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