Suburban Amherst’s Harry A. Wedekindt Funeral Home, operated by twin brothers Raymond and Richard Wedekindt, has far-flung German ethnic origins in the East Side undertaking businesses started by their great-grandfather and great uncle, respectively, in the 1880s and 90s. Raymond and Richard’s great uncle, Adolph Wedekindt, opened his funeral home in the Hydraulics at 750 Seneca Street in 1894, expanding three years later to 761 Seneca. The Wedekindts, in the funeral business since 1887 (the year their grandfather Henry Wedekindt opened the first of several funeral homes on High Street), have done much to preserve the story of the family’s links to the Hydraulics. Read the rest of this entry »