Forest Lawn Cemetery, covering over 269 acres, contains the graves of 144,000 people who helped build Buffalo into a great industrial city. Here are the captivating stories of many of those people as seen from the perspective of the cemetery they are buried in. These are more than 100 color pictures and 60 black & whites pictures to illustrate the 147 years of Forest Loan's fascinating history.

For the first time the true story of the early struggles to start the cemetery that became the famous Forest Lawn Memorial-Park are told by former Forest Lawn CEO John F. Llewellyn, the third and last generation to manage this uniquely Southern California institution.