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A Giant Cherry Tree---stands mutely as a reminder of things gone by.....These giant trees once covered the hill area surrounding this cemetery....until the hillsides were nearly bare upon arrival of the year 1900.

LIST of LOT OWNERS

 BELLAMY CEMETERY

aka/Petrolia Cemetery

Town of Alma, Allegany County, NY

 

Below is a list of LOT OWNERS taken from a survey map, undated, unsigned.  The map was donated to Town Historian by Marty Gorton in 2006, having been owned by Emily Ruth Kinnicutt, last Treasurer of the Cemetery.  The map is a "recent" map and any previous maps have been lost.

This listing was prepared by Ronald G. Taylor using the survey map and additional information from the records of the Thelma Rogers Genealogical and Historical Society of Wellsville, NY, as transcribed by Mary Rhodes, 2006; Also, information from records at B.R.A.G., (Bolivar-Richburg-Allentown-Genesee Historical Preservation Society - Bolivar, NY)

This is LOT OWNERS list only; Burials are shown on another list.

  1. DANIEL OVIAT

  2. WILLIAM WATSON

  3. ELIAS WYKOFF

  4. WILLIAM EMORY

  5. CHARLES LUSK

  6. JAMES STIVES

  7. MR. MAPES

  8. WILLIAM BEEMEN(?)

  9. JAMES STIVES

  10. MILO GREENE

  11. JOSEPH SMITH

  12. E. HODKYS (HOTCHKISS)

  13. BELLAMY

  14. DANIEL OVIAT

  15. WILLIAM COATS

  16. BELLAMY

  17. JAMES MCCHARSTON

  18. ROBERT WILLIAMS

  19. JAMES CRANDALL

  20. ED. DICKERSON

  21. BENJ. GUSTEN

  22. HENRY RIFFLE

  23. No Name

  24. No Name

  25. No Name

  26. No Name

  27. No Name

  28. No Name

  29. ELIAS GREENE

  30. HIRAM BREESE

  31. GOWDY

  32. EZEKIEL JOHNSON

  33. No Name

  34. No Name

  35. LEE GEORGE

  36. ISAAC EASTON

  37. No Name (My guess, Elijah W. Niles; Ron Taylor, Alma Town Historian 2007)

  38. SELIN NILES

  39. ERNEST DEPEW

  40. ANDY BURDICK

  41. JOSEPH T. BURDICK

  42. JOSHUA GREENE

  43. BENJ. QUICK

  44. GEORGE EMERSON

  45. A. TOWNER

  46. C. LYON

  47. E. NEMIRE

  48. FRED GATHAWAY (GARTHWAIT2)

  49. GRISWOLD

  50. F. ROCHTASCHEL (QUICK1)

  51. JEROME ELSTER

 Lots 52 through 80 show No Names as Lot Owners on the map.

 

1Quick: Purchased by Benj. Quick for F. Rocktaeschel.

2Gathaway: Descendent of Garthwait believes this to be correct name of Lot Owner.

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