Batavia Cemetery

Batavia Cemetery
Batavia Cemetery sign, 2009
Details
Established	1823[1]
Location	Batavia, NY
Country	US
Coordinates	42°59′36″N 78°10′17″W / 42.99333°N 78.17139°W / 42.99333; -78.17139
Owned by	Batavia Cemetery Association
Size	9 acres (3.6 ha)[1]
No. of graves	over 8,000
Find a Grave	Batavia Cemetery
The Political Graveyard	Batavia Cemetery

Batavia Cemetery is located on Harvester Avenue in Batavia, New York, United States. It opened in 1823 and contains over 8,000 graves, mostly from the 19th century. In 2002 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places,^[2] the first of two cemeteries in Genesee County to be so designated.

The first graves were some of the city's early settlers, moved from another graveyard that had become too full. Originally it was run by nearby St. James Episcopal Church, but when the cemetery became too big an independent Batavia Cemetery Association was formed. It has operated the cemetery ever since.

Joseph Ellicott, the agent for the Holland Land Company, who shaped Western New York in its early years and laid out the cities of Batavia and Buffalo, is buried under a large monument. Other notable markers commemorate Anti-Masonic activist William Morgan, American Fourierist Albert Brisbane, and his son Arthur, a prominent newspaper editor in the yellow journalism era; Civil War General John H. Martindale and New York Central Railroad president Dean Richmond. Other notable burials include some local congressmen.