*Updated: 12 April 2005
Town of Amherst Small
Cemeteries
Erie County, New York
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The following
Eggertsville cemeteries were relocated to
Skinnerville
Cemetery.
- Bondcroft
Cemetery ~
Bondcroft Drive and
Main Street.
- Community
Cemetery ~ Main Street at Eggert Road
"The year was 1811- Abraham Miller build a general store
at the corner of Main Street & Eggert Road.
The Community Cemetery was behind the general store.
Abraham and his wife Barbara, were buried there in 1843 and 1873
respectfully.
The location of the remains are unknown , or if there were other
burials in this cemetery".
- Amherst Museum Display (I found
the names listed in Skinnerville Cemetery, dates are
different)
- Eggert Road
Cemetery
(1855) ~ Behind 1317
Main Street. Formerly adjacent to St. Benedict's R.C.
Church.
- Eggertsville
Cemetery ~ Formerly behind brick church on
Main Street between Ivyhurst Road and Koster Row.
- Free Church Cemetery
(1866) Ivy Hurst Road (Ivyhurst) and
Koster Row
- Little Brick Church &
Cemetery Ivy Hurst Road (Ivyhurst) and Koster
Row **
"The Little Brick Church and Cemetery" "Just past the "bend" on
Main St, between what is now Ivy Hurst Road (Ivyhurst)
and Koster Row was a little brick church, behind which was a
cemetery. On the map of 1866 it was designated "The Free Church"
and on a map of 1880's the "Union Church". The original cemetery
deed,was dated May 1, 1849, shows that the property was on the
north side of "Macadam Road" (Main Street). It was also know as "The Resting Place",
dedicated for all denominations.
Between 1952 and 1957, the Town of Amherst moved the cemetery
to
Skinnerville Cemetery. (1849 - 1956) (B)
From
"A History of
the Town Of Amherst" Erie, County, New York, author, Sue Miller
Young, 1965 Page 59.
- Resting Place (1849) Ivy Hurst Road Ivyhurst) and Koster Row
- Union Church and
Cemetery (1880)
Ivy Hurst Road
(Ivyhurst) and Koster Row.
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