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Buffalo Cemeteries, An Account of the Burial Places of Buffalo
From the Earliest Times
Read Before the Buffalo Historical Society, February 4, 1879
by WILLIAM HODGE
Pub. Bigelow Brothers, Buffalo, N.Y.; 1879


                          BUFFALO CEMETERIES
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        The formation of a burial-place is generally one of the later
     things attended to in a new settlement, inasmuch as the utmost effort
     is needed to support the living and carry on the necessary improve-
     ments; and unless there should be death from accidental causes, there
     are no particular reasons to induce the pioneers to bear in mind the
     fact that any of them will be cut off from their labors, and become
     the silent tenants of the tomb.
        Like other settlements in Western New York, Buffalo was lax in
     attending to the necessity of providing a resting place for the dead;
     and churches were organized and school houses erected ere it seemed
     to be noticed that death was as likely to invade here as elsewhere.
     But, as was even then so certain to be the case, the time for these
     duly arrived.

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