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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


                               PREFACE
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        In early summer of 1875 I received a note from the late ALEXANDER
     J. Sheldon, requesting me to write an account of the burying grounds
     of Buffalo, and especially of the soldiers' graves within and near our
     city. He promised to do what he could to aid me, and I finally con-
     sented to prepare the sketch, relying on his help to put it into shape
     for publication as an addition to tlie local history of Buffalo.
        Mr. Sheldon, however, died before we had half the sketch prepared.
     Since his death I have finished it, and now submit it to the public as
     a plain statement of facts concerning the burial places of the dead in
     this region, especially in early times.
        I am indebted to Mr. Sheldon for some of the first pages, particu-
     larly those concerning the burials on the JOHNSTON lot; and for some
     subsequent ideas and expressions. I am also indebted to Rev. ALBERT
     BIGELOW for valuable assistance in preparing the whole paper for the
     press.
        In a conversation with Mr. SHELDON, I learned that he intended to
     ask Congress for an appropriation of money to erect a monument to the
     memory of the soldiers who lost their lives in the war of 1S12. But
     though this worthy object should not now be accomplished, I trust that
     these pages may nevertheless help to remind this and other generations
     of the fact that here, in perilous times, many of our brave defenders
     lost their lives, and found their final resting place.

                                                      WM. HODGE.

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