'When the Bills and Erie County selected a 113-acre tract of land off Abbott Road, an area of overgrown farmland and a few homes, the Sheldon Family Cemetery was discovered. A dozen marked graves revealed that the Sheldons, who settled in the area in 1805, began burying their dead in the plot near Gate 7 in the 1830s (an infant son, John, 3 weeks old was the first) right up through the 1940s.'