BUFFALO
STREET CEMETERY
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3 1/2 acre graveyard.
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1832
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120 die in cholera epidemic. Cemetery is full.
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1851
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City acquires land for a hospital. Graves moved to Mount Hope.
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CATHOLIC
PARISH CEMETERIES
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St. Joseph's Cemetery on Lyell Avenue, SS Peter & Paul Cemetery on
Maple Street, Holy Family Cemetery, and St. Boniface Cemetery on Pinnacle
Avenue (South Clinton Avenue) were all adjacent to churches serving these
small German speaking parishes.
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1871
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Bishop McQuaid purchased land for Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and urged that
all Catholic cemeteries consolidate.
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CHARLOTTE
CEMETERY
Notable Residents Include:
Sam Patch ( -1829)
This Cemetery still survives.
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EAST
& GIBBS CEMETERY
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During construction of the Johnson-Seymour Mill race a workman with his
horse and wagon fell in the river. He was buried where East and Gibbs Streets
intersect. The location was used for years, but the site was never owned
by the village.
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1820
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Bodies from East and Gibbs were transferred to a common pit in the Monroe
and Alexander Cemetery.
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GEORGE EASTMAN'S
GRAVESITE
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GEORGE EASTMAN'S
GRAVESITE
POST
CARDS
Eastman Memorial in Kodak Park, Rochester,
NY
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KINGS LANDING
CEMETERY
1790
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Area's oldest cemetery opens, Lake Ave., at Eastman Ave.
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'Swamp Fever ' kills six at Kings Landing. Settlement is abandoned.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Hazleton Fish is the first person buried in the cemetery,
she died in March of the fever.
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The cemetery still survives with stones placed upright, but the exact grave
sites are unknown.
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1798
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Gideon King dies of the fever.
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1799
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Zadock Granger dies of the fever.
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1803
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Elijah Kent dies.
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1804
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Simon King dies of the fever.
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MONROE
& ALEXANDER CEMETERY
1820
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2 acres was purchased for $100 at Monroe and Alexander to become the first
official village burial grounds. The first lots were sold for a period
of 500 years.
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1872
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Cemetery moved so that a school could be built in the site. Bodies moved
to a mass grave at Mt. Hope Cemetery.
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PLYMOUTH
& SPRING STREETS
CEMETERY
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Col. Rochester donated one half acre to the city for burials.
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Bodies transferred to Buffalo Street Graveyard
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RAPIDS CEMETERY
1812
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Rapids Cemetery was named for the nearby rapids in the river, and is located
on Congress Avenue near the southern end of Genesee St.
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Cemetery still survives.
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ST. PATRICK'S
CEMETERY
1871
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After 33 years the small Catholic cemetery for the city, St. Patrick's
Cemetery, on the hill's summit and western slope, was nearly full, and
had no room to expand. Bishop McQuaid purchased 109 acres for a new cemetery,
and urged that all Catholics move family members to the new Holy Sepulchre
Cemetery. This was done, and the site was abandoned.