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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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                   DELAWARE AND NORTH STREET BURYING GROUND
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        About the year 1830, Hon. LEWIS F. ALLEN bought of Judge EBENEZER
     WALDEN on his own account, five acres situated on the southwest cor-
     ner of Delaware and North streets, and east of Bowery street. He then
     formed an association consisting of the following persons, viz.: LEWIS
     F. ALLEN, GEORGE B. WEBSTER, RUSSELL H. HEYWOOD, HEMAN B. POTTER and
     HIRAM PRATT, as trustees, and had it surveyed into lots by JOSEPH
     CLARY, Esq. A considerable number of lots were sold; but the smallness
     of the plot and the fact that the southern part was full of springs,
     prevented many improvements; and most of the bodies deposited there
     have been removed to Forest Lawn, and the property is now held by the
     Forest Lawn Association. It is not at all likely that any more burials
     will ever take place there, as they are prohibited by a law of the
     state, and the lots around are occupied by beautiful residences.

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