
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery was founded for the burial of Catholics of Italian background at a time when ethnic cemeteries were the norm. (The United German and French Roman Catholic Cemetery, dating to 1859, is a stone's throw away and St. Stanislaus Polish Cemetery is just down the street). Founded in 1913 with a purchase of 20 acres of land on Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, with an entrance between ...
The first caretaker/groundskeeper was Czeslaw Piechowiak. A fire occurred about 1925 in the rectory, which destroyed all the original sacramental records and burial ledgers. The church undertaker was Leon Zaganiaczyk, whose funeral home records were discarded in 2014 by a family member. Unfortunately, there are hundreds of interments that will remain undocumented. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 1737 East Delavan Avenue, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. Find a Grave
Buffalo Cemetery resides in Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. The earliest graves were dug in the first decade of the 1800s. Buffalo Cemetery is an active cemetery within the natural beauty that is Western New York. Find a Grave About Cheektowaga: "Cheektowaga comes from the Erie-Seneca Indian word, Ji-ik-do-wah-gah, or “place of the crabapple tree.” The earliest Indian dwellers were...
Mount Calvary Cemetery is located within the Cheektowaga Cemetery Complex, along the west side of Harlem Rd (State Highway 240), on the north side of the intersection with Kensington Expy (State Highway 33) in Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. Mount Calvary Cemetery originally started out as United German & French Roman Catholic Cemetery , founded in 1859. In 1982, the cemetery was split int...