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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


                         NOTES AND CORRECTIONS

                                NOTES
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     Note, page 4, Franklin Square Cemetery. —CAPT. PRATT went, the first
   year of his arrival here (1804) with Dr. CYRENIUS CHAPIN, to Batavia.
   and obtained, by "land contract" from the Holland Land Co., the
   "Franklin Square" lot for a village burying ground.

     Note, page 5. —To the account of interments in Franklin Square Ceme-
   tery, it is interesting to add that in March. 1815, the noble and esti-
   mable Indian Chief, FARMER'S BROTHER, was buried here, with military
   honors. When the bodies were removed to Forest Lawn, a tablet, with his
   initials formed by brass nails, was found; but like JOB HOYSINGTON'S
   skull (p. 6) disappeared in the process of removal.

     Note, page 5. —Mr. Ellicott's "verbal consent" must have been given
   considerably prior to 1804.

     Note, page 9. —The last two lines of the epitaph on ROUGH are from
   BURNS' epitaph on GAVIN HAMILTON.

     Note, page 24, Reservation Cemetery. —RED JACKET, contrary to his own
   decidedly expressed will, was buried with Christian rites; his wife
   being a Christian woman.  Only his grave, however, is now in this
   Cemetery, for his remains were removed to the Cattaraugus Reservation,
   in 1852, and the exact place where they lie is known only to his own
   descendants. It is to be hoped that before long, as all objections on
   the part of his people have been removed, a suitable place will be
   furnished for their reception in Forest Lawn.

                                CORRECTIONS
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     On account of conflict of authorities, discovered too late for changes
   in the text before printing, the following corrections are required,
   viz:—

     Correction, page 10, near the bottom. —After "the creek bed," instead
   of "or gulf," read "while, westward, it crossed a deep ravine or gulf
   formed by a stream flowing from the 'Jubilee' spring."

     Correction, page 16. —Second paragraph: for "1849" read "1844."

     Correction, page 19. -For "August 14" read "August 15."

     Correction, pp. 13-14. —It is ascertained that the SHERWOOD family
   buried in a private ground on the farm. Here the vault was built, but it
   has never been used for burials. Numbers of persons from the neighbor-
   hood were also interred in this ground, all of whom have been removed.

     Correction, page 22, Jewish Cemeteries. —First paragraph : for "1839"
   read "1847;" for "about 1844," read "in 1849;" for "William" read
   "Sycamore."
     Read the second paragraph thus: "The Jacobson Society had previously
   been formed, though imperfectly organized; and had obtained the use of
   the above named lot, it being then private property, for burial pur-
   poses. The first person interred here was Mrs. ELIAS BERNHEIMER, wife of
   the owner."
     In the third paragraph, for "between 1862 and 1865." read "in 1861?"

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