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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

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                          SOLDIER'S BURIAL PLACES
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        It is in the memory of some yet living that the American bank of
     Niagara River at Black Rock and the banks of CONJOCKETY Creek adja-
     cent, were the grounds of several hard contested battles in which
     many were killed and afterwards buried on the battle-field.  Many
     also were buried here who died of sickness in the barracks of our
     Grand Battery and in the barracks on the bank of CONJOCKETY Creek.
     There is no doubt that hundreds of unknown soldiers are buried here,
     and as these grounds have been plowed over and over again it is im-
     possible to detect their individual resting places until excavations
     are made. There ought certainly to be some provision for reinterring
     them when found. The remains of many are also scattered along the line
     of Main street from Flint Hill to the Terrace. All these grounds are
     thickly strewn with the relics of a former war. Bones of soldiers have
     been exhumed within the last few years at the junction of Lafayette
     and Washington streets. They also have been found on the Terrace near
     St. Joseph's College and on the bank of the river at Black Rock, and
     in various places on Main street, and have been thrown about as
     playthings for "Peterkin and Wilhelmine" as mentioned by Southey in
     his poem of "The Battle of Blenheim."  Time and the march of improve-
     ment alone can bring to light the bones of the majority of our dead
     soldiers, as the government was not so careful of them formerly as
     now.
        It would of course be impossible for me to identify all the places
     in this region where our nation's dead have been buried. I may, how-
     ever, point out some of the most prominent ones.

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