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Historian, Bill "Bubba G" Greene, of Andover, has submitted all of the material that is used for this page.  Quoted is a newspaper article (unknown date, probably mid 1990s) by former county historian from Belmont, NY, Bill Greene.  Do not confuse the two individuals, but, they both have the same name and both are historians.

Above is Carlton Greene farm at junction of Kenyon Road and State Route 21.  At the end of the red line (at right) would be location of the RR Valley Cemetery.  Photo circa 1952 from Greene Family Archives.

from article, " It's time to save the Erie----Again"

"At several points along the line there were riots between several factions of Irish and the Germans.  These were mainly caused by religious differences.  There were a number of fatalities on all sides.  When Paris Green (that really was his name; he was an 1812 soldier who settled in Alfred in 1816, and died in 1868) gave refuge to a family named Pardon, the militia had to be called out to save his house.  There are several graves on the Carlton Greene farm in Railroad Valley believed to be some of the Irish laborers.  One could even be the missing John McCarthy King of Ireland."

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UNKNOWN CEMETERY LOCATED ON THE

GREENE FARM

AT FOOT OF KENYON ROAD, TOWN OF ALFRED

Submitted by William A. Greene, 2006

"There is no written record of this cemetery that I know of.  I will pass on to you what has been passed on from generation to generation in my family.  I had written this down when talking to my Mother back in the early 1990s and have just found the paper that I had written the information on.

This cemetery was started back in the 1850s when the Erie Railroad was being built through the area.  Many of the workers that died or were killed were buried right along the tracks with no markers.  My Mother thinks, if she can remember right, that there are about 13 railroad workers buried there.

Roland and Guinn Wilcox Ormsby, of Alfred Station had two children die at or shortly after childbirth, which was around 1920/25, and they are buried there.

Mom thought some of the Beebe family might be buried there also."