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Comment on Southside Burial Ground by Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:46:31 +0000

I grew up on Albert Road and spent my childhood playing in that cemetery and climbing the trees. It was like a jungle back then. We referred to it as “the Lot”. My friends who also lived on Albert Rd and I even dug up one of the tombstones. The side of Albert Rd closest to 149th Ave are all built on the burial ground and I remember a lot of my neighbors saying they used to see ghosts. My old neighbors Sy and Goldie (RIP) lived in the house right next to the burial ground, and once they were doing some work in their little yard and dug up the concrete and found a tombstone for a nurse who was about 20 when she died. Being Jewish, they weren’t sure of what the proper thing to do with a Christian tombstone. Another neighbor told them to rebury it. Ha! I was about 15 or 16 before the city stepped in and basically leveled it, and then finally fenced it off. That didn’t stop us as teenagers from still hanging out in there and sneaking cigarettes and beer. Same goes for the remaining section at the ball field (Loring Park, a.k.a. “the Field, or Crossbay Field”). I don’t know how I came across this article, but to see Albert Road and Redding St brought me way back!

Comment on St. John’s Cemetery by Stacy Horn » Blog Archive » There’s Nothing You Can’t Find Online

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:06:41 +0000

[...] Daytonian in Manhattan also mentions how the body a six year old child, Mary Elizabeth Tisdall, was found in 1934, so of course I had to search her! I found her whole story at a blog called the New York City Cemetery Project. [...]

Comment on Southside Burial Ground by John Muller

John Muller — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:50:11 +0000

South Side Butial Ground in Ozone Park Queens, NY. My Great Grandparndents Georgieana and Charles H. Smith ,there Babys and an adult son Jim are buried at this Burial Ground along with Charles H. Smiths Parents and other long lost members of the Smith Family, all are buried below a road that cut through the Cemetury back in the 1920′s. It would be interesting if some day an Arceoligest would do a dig there. I am sure many of the missing headstones would be found of these original Long Island Familys that were the foundation to this area of Queens NY.

Comment on St. Peter’s Catholic Graveyard by magnifique100

magnifique100 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:06:48 +0000

Very interesting.

Comment on Leverich Family Burial Ground by John Leverich

John Leverich — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:53:28 +0000

Great research.

Comment on Strattonport Village Cemetery by St. Fidelis Graveyard | New York City Cemetery Project

St. Fidelis Graveyard | New York City Cemetery Project — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:47:21 +0000

[...] clergy. The gravestone is thought to have been from either the old St. Fidelis graveyard or the Strattonport Village Cemetery that was located nearby. The grave of Rev. Joseph Huber, St. Fidelis’ founding pastor who died [...]

Comment on Third Shearith Israel Cemetery by Fourth Shearith Israel Cemetery / Beth Olom Cemetery | New York City Cemetery Project

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:08:16 +0000

[...] the closure of its First, Second and Third cemeteries in Manhattan during the first half of the 19th century, in 1851 Congregation Shearith [...]

Comment on First Shearith Israel Cemetery by Fourth Shearith Israel Cemetery / Beth Olom Cemetery | New York City Cemetery Project

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:08:13 +0000

[...] the closure of its First, Second and Third cemeteries in Manhattan during the first half of the 19th century, in 1851 [...]

Comment on Fourth Shearith Israel Cemetery / Beth Olom Cemetery by Third Shearith Israel Cemetery | New York City Cemetery Project

Third Shearith Israel Cemetery | New York City Cemetery Project — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:07:11 +0000

[...] Fourth Shearith Israel Cemetery / Beth Olom Cemetery [...]

Comment on Second Shearith Israel Cemetery by Fourth Shearith Israel Cemetery / Beth Olom Cemetery | New York City Cemetery Project

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:03:21 +0000

[...] the closure of its First, Second and Third cemeteries in Manhattan during the first half of the 19th century, in 1851 Congregation [...]