Mary Jemison, known as "The White Woman of the Genesee," lived for more than seventy years among the Senecas on the banks of this river, and her life became inseparably connected with the history of this valley. She was the daughter of Thomas Jemison and Jane Irwin, was born on the ocean between Ireland and Phila. in 1742 or 1748, was taken captive at Marsh Creek, Pa. in 1755, carried down the Ohio, adopted into an Indian family, and in 1759 removed to Genesee River. She was naturalized in 1817, removed to this place in 1831, survived two husbands and five children while leaving three still alive, and died on Sept. 19, 1838, aged about ninety one years, having a few weeks before expressed a hope of pardon through Jesus Christ. Her remains were removed from the Buffalo Creek Reservation and reinterred at this place with appropriate ceremonies on the 7th day of March, 1871.