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People/Items of Interest in Cold Springs Cemetery

Ledgers and Tables - Elonor Burns Flinn and Anna Moore
Jesse P. Haines - Cartpgrapher 
Staff Sergeant William F. Leonard - World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient - is Located in Section 7.
Van Ness Douglas - Businessman
Spring Is Here - Enjoy Cold Springs Cemetery
Key Bank - Cleaning and Sprucing
William Wirt Bush - First Volunteer to Under President LincolnWhi
White Bronze Stones - Not Stones At All
The Receiving Vault (under construction)

History

Passages from:  History of Niagara County, N.Y., With Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Private Residences, Public Buildings, Fine Blocks, and Important Manufactories, and Portraits of Old Pioneers and Prominent Residents: 1821-1878, Sanford & Co., New York, pages 269-270:

Cold Spring Cemetery is located on an undulating slope, facing the north, near the Cold Springs—from which it takes its name…  It is artistically laid out, and shaded by trees of natural growth. Considerable labor has been expended in ornamenting and transforming the naturally picturesque grounds into an appropriate place for the repose of the dead.

The plan of the cemetery was conceived as early as 1838, and an organization effected with the following named gentlemen as trustees: Joel McCollum, Wright Lattin, Joseph T. Bellah, William C. House and Samuel G. Hamilton. By an act of the Legislature the Cold Spring Cemetery Association was incorporated May 7th, 1840. The following is an extract from the act of incorporation: “Asa W. Douglas, Asahel Scovill, Horace Birdsall, James D. Shuler and Freeman Kilburn, and such other persons as may hereafter associate with them, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The Cold Spring Cemetery Association," with power to take, hold and convey real and personal estate for the use of said corporation…  By the conditions of the same act the five persons mentioned above were constituted a board of trustees, who the same year (1846) purchased 10 acres of land of Stephen Wakeman—adjoining an old burying ground which had been in existence for many years previous…

The lots at first sold as low as from five to fifteen dollars. In 1844 a tax of five hundred dollars was levied upon the village of Lockport, and three acres purchased from the association for a 'potter’s field' or free burying place, subject, nevertheless, to the control of the trustees of the Cold Spring association. In 1855, right of way through these grounds was granted to the Rochester and Niagara Falls railroad, which cut off the potter’s field from the main grounds. In 1876 the association purchased an addition of five acres,…  and in the fall of 1877 erected a stone vault, near the main entrance, at an expense of about $800.  The first sexton appointed to take charge of these grounds was Jonas Hartzell in December, 1841.

Many of the most distinguished of the early settlers and residents of Lockport and vicinity are buried there, and many of the tombstones recall thoughts of the days of the early existence of the village.

Please take time to walk around and read many of the stones, take advantage of the natural and planted beauties.  The old part of Cold Springs has roads with street signs (donated by Thelma Brong).  There are three mausoleums, Kelly, Carl and Ballou.  The building on Linden was the old Receiving Vault.  Charlotte Cross’ grave is a little east of that on the north side of Linden.  The Columbariums are located at the South/East Gate area.  The House at the West Entry holds the office.