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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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                              SANDY TOWN
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        Sandy Town. —In 1814, when our army held Fort Erie, the ferrying
     place across the river was near Sandy Town, which was quite a noted
     place. A number of wooden houses had been built in rear of the beach
     behind the immense sand hills that existed in the early part of the
     century. Some of them were used as hospitals for the sick and wounded
     as they were brought from Canada, and the dead were buried in the sand
     banks adjacent. Many bodies were washed out into the lake in after
     years. I have often seen them lying there exposed to the gaze of the
     passer by, and human bones were even tossed carelessly about with
     gibes and sneers by those engaged in carting sand to Buffalo.
        As late as 1830, it was a common thing for the school boys to go
     there on a Saturday afternoon and dig for relics,—buttons, bullets,
     &c.; and often they exhumed the bones perhaps of those to whom these
     belonged, and frequently portions of muskets, grape-shot, and other
     war-like materials were dug up; but the great storm of October, 1849,
     washed everything away down to the soil, and there were plainly to be
     seen the traces of the line of huts, the foundations of the chimneys,
     officers' quarters, &c. All now is changed, and we doubt if a single
     relic of the war could be found there.

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