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Also known as Hitchcock Family Cemetery

Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York, USA

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  • Get directions Broadway (New York 130)
    Cheektowaga, New York 14043 United States
    Coordinates: 42.90261, -78.71735
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Information from the Town of Cheektowaga Historical Association:
The Home Cemetery was located on the farmstead of Apollos Hitchcock Sr. The property was near the flats of Cayuga Creek, which is now the area of land off Broadway St. between Dick and Borden Roads, shown on old town maps. His son Franklin was the first known recorded (in a record of Deaths in the Town of Lancaster from 1807 to 1870 copied by James Clark from his diaries in 1870)
death and interment (1818) in the town of Amherst (now Cheektowaga). When the railroad came through the farm and cemetery, all of the several bodies were removed and reinterred at the Lancaster Rural cemetery.
It is noted in the late Town Historian Julia Boyer Reinstein's notes that three negro slaves of Hitchcocks were buried there in unmarked graves on Broadway.





The cemetery map location is approximate.




Information from the Town of Cheektowaga Historical Association:
The Home Cemetery was located on the farmstead of Apollos Hitchcock Sr. The property was near the flats of Cayuga Creek, which is now the area of land off Broadway St. between Dick and Borden Roads, shown on old town maps. His son Franklin was the first known recorded (in a record of Deaths in the Town of Lancaster from 1807 to 1870 copied by James Clark from his diaries in 1870)
death and interment (1818) in the town of Amherst (now Cheektowaga). When the railroad came through the farm and cemetery, all of the several bodies were removed and reinterred at the Lancaster Rural cemetery.
It is noted in the late Town Historian Julia Boyer Reinstein's notes that three negro slaves of Hitchcocks were buried there in unmarked graves on Broadway.





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