Small Cemeteries

VINTAGE VIEWS OF ROCHESTER

SMALL CEMETERIES

BUFFALO STREET CEMETERY
CATHOLIC PARISH CEMETERIES
CHARLOTTE CEMETERY
EAST & GIBBS CEMETERY
GEORGE EASTMAN'S GRAVESITE
KINGS LANDING CEMETERY
MONROE & ALEXANDER
PLYMOUTH & SPRING STREETS
RAPIDS CEMETERY
ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY

UFFALO

TREET

EMETERY

3 1/2 acre graveyard.

1832

120 die in cholera epidemic. Cemetery is full.

1851

City acquires land for a hospital. Graves moved to Mount Hope.

CATHOLIC PARISH CEMETERIES

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.

1871

Bishop McQuaid purchased land for Holy Sepulchre Cemetery and urged that all Catholic cemeteries consolidate. .

CHARLOTTE CEMETERY

Notable Residents Include:
Sam Patch ( -1829)
This Cemetery still survives.
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EAST & GIBBS CEMETERY

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.

1820

Bodies from East and Gibbs were transferred to a common pit in the Monroe and Alexander Cemetery.

GEORGE EASTMAN'S GRAVESITE
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GEORGE EASTMAN'S GRAVESITE POST CARDS
Eastman Memorial in Kodak Park, Rochester, NY

KINGS LANDING CEMETERY

1790

Area's oldest cemetery opens, Lake Ave., at Eastman Ave.
'Swamp Fever ' kills six at Kings Landing. Settlement is abandoned.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hazleton Fish is the first person buried in the cemetery, she died in March of the fever.
The cemetery still survives with stones placed upright, but the exact grave sites are unknown.

1798

Gideon King dies of the fever.

1799

Zadock Granger dies of the fever.

1803

Elijah Kent dies.

1804

Simon King dies of the fever.

MONROE & ALEXANDER CEMETERY

1820

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.

1872

Cemetery moved so that a school could be built in the site. Bodies moved to a mass grave at Mt. Hope Cemetery.

LYMOUTH

& S

PRING

TREETS

EMETERY

Col. Rochester donated one half acre to the city for burials.
Bodies transferred to Buffalo Street Graveyard

APIDS

EMETERY

1812

Rapids Cemetery was named for the nearby rapids in the river, and is located on Congress Avenue near the southern end of Genesee St.

Cemetery still survives.

ATRICK'S

EMETERY

1871

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.

1936

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