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surname and name of husband from headstone. Not found in the 1850 census. She may have come to America after her children arrived.
Thomas Barry, Patrick Sinnott and Joseph Sinnott were noted as "Laborer" in the 1850 census. Chances are they helped build the Genesee Valley Canal. They all came to America about the same time the construction resumed in 1848.
"This burial ground on a hill overlooking the village of Portageville is the cemetery for the pioneer Catholics who came into that region as workers on the Genesee Valley Canal and the Erie Railroad. The site, donated by Col. Williams, has long been abandoned, the grounds have become covered with bushes and trees and many of the stones have fallen. When the following inscriptions were recorded, April 7, 1951, the record was incomplete due to stones that have become buried, monuments too heavy to move, and inscriptions that have weathered. These have been checked against the records of the Church of the Assumption, which date back only to 1875, by Mrs. Elizabeth R. Beardsley, Genesee Falls Town Historian. Some additions have been noted within parenthesis. About the year 1900, the Church of the Assumption opened its present cemetery outside the village."
Wyoming was formed from Genesee County, May 14, 1841. Eagle, Pike and a part of Portage were annexed from Allegany Co. in 1846. The county seat is Warsaw. Mary Jemison ( "The Old White Woman"), Ebenzer Allen, John Tolles, Jacob Wright, Nathaniel Sprout and Stephen Crow were some of the first settlers.
Land that is now Letchworth Park was served by the Genesee Valley Canal that began near downtown Rochester where it joined the Erie and ended at the Allegany River near Olean at the hamlet of MillGrove. According to Mildred Anderson's book "The Genesee Valley Canal" construction began in 1836 and the 53 mile section from Rochester to Mt Morris was finished in 1841. Financial problems and difficult terrain resulted in a delay from 1842 until 1848 and the next portion not being completed until 1862, bringing the length up to 124 miles. The total rise in elevation to be overcome by this hand--dug ditch was over 900 feet and eventually had to cross the Genesee River on an aqueduct 40 feet high. The canal was officially abandoned in 1878 and the right-of-way sold in 1880. Mrs. Anderson's book contains many facts and tales of life along the canal.
Most of the canal route evolved into the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad which became a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad that went out of service in the early 60's and was purchased by Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation which has conveyed that right of way to NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for development of a trail system called the Greenway.
Glimpses of the Past, People, Places, and Things in Letchworth Park History
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