Category: Cemeteries
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Soule Cemetery, Sennett
Soule Cemetery is located at 3412 Franklin Street Road, Auburn, NY, which is in the Town of Sennett, outside of the city limits of Auburn. However, the cemetery is maintained by the City of Auburn. The land for Soule Cemetery was donated to the City of Auburn by Lyman Soule, Esq. in 1882. This cemetery…
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Auburn State Prison Convict Cemetery, Auburn
New York State Cemetery for burial of Convicts from Auburn State Prison in Auburn, NY Land Title Timeline 4 July 1873 A plot of land located on Fitch Avenue in Auburn NY was purchased from Lewis Paddock by Lewis E. Carpenter, as Agent and Warden of Auburn State Prison for $500. This parcel of land…
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North Street Cemetery, Auburn
North Street Cemetery is owned and maintained today by the local government of the City of Auburn NY. A search of newspaper obituaries for North Street Cemetery via the Fulton History website suggests that some additional burials occurred at North Street Cemetery that are not cited on this list. For more information about North Street Cemetery records contact…
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State Street (Cold Spring) Cemetery, Auburn
The Cold Spring Cemetery Located on State Street in Auburn was renovated by the volunteer activities of Chris Cuddy and Pat O’Connor in the 1980s and 1990s. It was also known as “The Catholic Cemetery” and “State Street Cemetery.” The cemetery was the first primarily Catholic Cemetery in the City of Auburn. The land was…
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Cemetery in Back of St. Peter’s Church, Auburn
Note: These burial records were originally compiled in the early 1960s as part of a project by local historians and members of the Owasco Chapter D.A.R. Copies were obtained courtesy of the Cayuga County Historian’s Office in February 1998 and typed into a digital format by Bernie Corcoran. Any handwritten corrections or notes contained from…
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Old Cemetery on the East Side of Dunning Avenue, Auburn
An 1882 Auburn, NY atlas map cites the existence of an “Old Cemetery” on a parcel located along the east side of South Division Street (now Dunning Avenue) in Auburn, NY. The City of Auburn, New York Atlas published by G. M. Hopkins in 1882 shows the adjacent land owned by E. L. Thornton. To…
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Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn
Fort Hill Cemetery was incorporated on May 15, 1851. The Fort Hill Cemetery Association of Auburn (NY) has published a website containing their burial roster.This website resides at: http://www.forthillcemetery.net/NewRoster/openframe.html or Visit The Fort Hill Cemetery Website Homepage at: http://www.forthillcemetery.net/ The Fort Hill Cemetery website has a page for Civil War Veteran burials. It contains links to obituaries for some of…
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Cemetery Burial Roster Books
In the 1960s, two local historians, together with the Owasco chapter D.A.R. and members of the local Pomona Grange Chapter, compiled a partial countywide roster of cemetery burials within Cayuga County. The resulting 10-volumes of cemetery burial roster books generally cite the name and date (or year) of death as referenced in either cemetery…