Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== 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 [16-17] BLACK ROCK ------ Black Rock. —Many graves were on or near the premises of Col. WILLIAM A. BIRD, Sr. In the battle of July 11th, 1813, at Black Rock, in which Col. BISHOP was killed, and Capt. SAUNDERS was wounded and taken prisoner by our men, there were eight British and three American soldiers killed; and they were buried on the brow of the river bank back of Col. BIRD'S house. From his residence, south as far as Albany street, there were at the close of the war many grave-mounds, which since that time have all been leveled. In fact I am informed by those who were there at the close of the war, that there were very few vacant lots in Black Rock, between Conjockety Creek and what is now Fort Porter that did not contain some soldiers' graves. =========================================================================== If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access the more of our information about Erie County, N.Y., by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/ny/erie/ ===========================================================================