Pioneer Cemetery, also known as Evans Center Cemetery, is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

located at Evans Center,

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, USA. It consists of 10 to 11 rows of burials, with the oldest dating to 1810. The majority of the burials date between 1810 and 1860, with the most recent burial in 1928. Most are marked with simple tablet headstones. It features hilly terrain with a prominent rise at the center of the cemetery. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying eight photographs''
/ref> The cemetery is a burial ground for many early settlement-era families. It also includes at least three veterans of the American Revolution, as well as a number of veterans from the American Civil War.

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, who was a mid-19th sculptor, is also another significant burial that took place in this cemetery. It was added to the

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in 2012.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Cemeteries in Erie County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, New York