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ORGANIZATIONS / PEOPLE:Town Cerk, Town Hall, 585-343-1729
Town of Batavia Website
Town of Batavia Co-Historians:
Berneda Scoins
3833 W. Main Street Road
Batavia, NY 14020
Barbara Ann Toal
3833 W. Main Street Road
Batavia, NY 14020
585/344-2458 (Home)
585/343-1729 (Town Hall)
City of Batavia Website
City of Batavia Historian:
Larry D. Barnes
55 River Street
Batavia, NY 14020
585/343-1481
JLBARNES4@verizon.net
CEMETERIES:
Daw's Corner's Cemetery, Batavia/Elba Townline Rd and the corner of Rt.#98 (cemetery is on the southeast corner - incorporated active cemetery, first burial 1812 - (see photo in Elba town info)
Grand View Cemetery, Clinton St. Rd, (Route 33), just
outside the city of Batavia on the right hand side of the road. first burial
1906 - A notebook listing of all known burials (including many innacuracies)
is updated annually and filed at both the Richmond Library and the Holland
Land Office. There is also a history notebook binder at each location,
although it's not of much value to geneologists.
Superintendent - Steve Davis 585-993-1317
Newkirk Cemetery (Five Corners Cemetery) - south east Corner of Bank St. Rd.- individual burials
Pratt Road Cemetery - Pratt Rod between Miller and Powers Roads - Reference made to this cemetery in a list compiled in 1975 by Marion Russell
Warner Cemetery (Sanders Cemetery, Miner Cemetery) - East of Batavia on Rt 33 - abandoned.
Perry Farm Cemetery - South side of Rt 5, abandoned
Veterans Burial - At the close of the War of 1812 two, sick soldiers returning to their homes stopped at the home of Thomas Beckwith (about 5 miles west of Batavia on Rt 5). Both died with cholera. Their names are reportedly Haxton and Pierce. They were buried under a tree near the Beckwith home.
Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery - behind the church 3515 Galloway Rd. - religious cemetery - first burial 1992
Batavia Cemetery, Harvester Ave., heading south, it is the first cemetery on the east side of the street. incorporated, active cemetery, first burial 1806 (many Batavia early pioneers buried here)
Batavia Cemetery, Catherine Roth, 23 N. Pointe Dr., Batavia, NY 14020
585-343-3833
Batavia Pioneer Cemetery- the present city of Batavia pioneer cemetery was on W. Main Street back along the creek near where the old W. Main St. School was. No evidence remains that a cemetery was ever there. The following are given in Beers, Gazetteer of Genesee County as being in this old cemetery in 1890:
Buell, Richard, died 1819
Mason, Wheaton, died 1825
Wilcox, Oliver, two wives of; one died 1807 the other 1824
Stark, W. T. , died 1822
St. Joseph's Cemetery, the driveway entrance for this is on Ellicott St.,(Route 63). Going east on Ellicott St. it is a little past Harvester Ave. on the north side of the street. St. Joseph Cemetery and the Elmwood Cemetery actually connect. I am not sure where one ends and the other begins! First burial 1850, some recrods at Richmond Memorial Libarary.
St. Joseph's Cemetery, St. Joseph's Parish Hall, Summit St., Batavia, NY 14020 - 585-343-9853
Elmwood Cemetery, Also on Harvester Ave., just a little way down the street from the Batavia Cemetery.First Burial 1872, incorporated active cemetery.
Elmwood Cemetery, 133 N. Spruce St.,Batavia, NY 14020 - 585-344-2047
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