Lakeside Cemetery is a cemetery located in

Hamburg, New York Hamburg ( ) is a Town (New York), town in Erie County, New York, Erie County, New York (state), New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 60,085. It is named after the city of Hamburg, Germany. The town is on t ...

. It is part of th
Forest Lawn
Group of Cemeteries and has been in operation for over 135 years.

Historic figures in Lakeside Cemetery

Home Run Johnson Grant U. "Home Run" Johnson (September 23, 1872 – September 4, 1963) was an American shortstop and second baseman in baseball's Negro league baseball, Negro leagues. In a career that spanned over 30 years, he played for many of the greatest tea ...

(1872–1963),

Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...

infielder and batting champion * John Raymond Pillion (1904–1978), US Congressman *

Jacob F. Schoellkopf Jr. Jacob Friedrich Schoellkopf Jr. (February 27, 1858 – September 9, 1942) was an American business executive, founder of Allied Corp., Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Works, and member of the Schoellkopf family who were involved in hydroelectric ...

(1858–1942), business executive, founder of Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Works

Lakeside Cemetery Administration Office

Built in approximately 1875, the office was constructed as a trolley and train station for what was then called the Buffalo Rural Cemetery. The primary function of the station – which contains a mourning room in its tower – was to receive bodies shipped by train from Buffalo for the cemetery, along with families of the decedents. Constructed of local

fieldstone Fieldstone is a naturally occurring type of stone, which lies at or near the surface of the Earth. Fieldstone is a nuisance for farmers seeking to expand their land under cultivation, but at some point it began to be used as a construction mate ...

, the station is built in a vaguely

Richardson Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th- and 12th-century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesq ...

style, with arched doors and windows, and stone pillars that support bracketed eaves. There are also two stone fireplaces inside, constructed of yellow Roman brick with egg and dart terra cotta molding.

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Lakeside Cemetery

Forest Lawn Cemetery
* {{Coord, 42, 45, 20, N, 78, 52, 17, W, type:landmark_region:US-NY_source:GNIS-970275, display=title Cemeteries in Erie County, New York