West Avenue Cemetery – City of Canandaigua – Ontario County – United States

West Avenue Cemetery is located on West Avenue at Arsenal Hill in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. Also known as Pioneer Cemetery, it occupies ground believed to have been set aside for burials when Canandaigua was laid out by Oliver Phelps and Nathaniel Gorham. The cemetery’s earliest documented burial is that of Captain Caleb Walker, who died in August 1790 as one of the first settlers’ community was being established. ([ldsgenealogy.com](https://ldsgenealogy.com/NY/books/A-history-of-Ontario-County-New-York-and-its-people-Volume-I-part-25.htm?utm_source=openai)) Its gravestones include veterans of the Revolutionary War and Civil War, as well as many early residents of Canandaigua and Ontario County. A 2019 marker commemorates Austin Steward, a formerly enslaved man, abolitionist, author, and local resident who died in Canandaigua in 1869. ([ontario.nygenweb.net](https://ontario.nygenweb.net/westavenuecem.htm?utm_source=openai)) Transcription resources document inscriptions from approximately 1811 through 1972 for genealogical research. ([ongenealogy.com](https://www.ongenealogy.com/listings/ontario-county-ny-genealogy-records-online-at-familysearch/?utm_source=openai))