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Grave of Robert McWhinnie, d. 1850, Mary Rose McWhinnie, d. 1856, Josiah M. McWhinnie, d. 1860, Charles T. McWhinnie, d. 1864, and Margaret E. McWhinnie, d. 1917, Miner Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on the islands of Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, although increased submarine activity in the Mediterranean meant that fewer hospital ships were sent to the island from May 1917.
During the Second World War, Malta's position in the Mediterranean was of enormous Allied strategic importance. Heavily fortified, the island was never invaded, but was subjected to continual bombardment and blockade between Italy's entry into the war in June 1940 and the Axis defeat at El Alamein in November 1942. At the height of Axis attempts to break Malta's resistance in April 1942, the island and her people were awarded the George Cross by King George VI.
Malta's defence relied upon a combined operation in which the contributions made by the three branches of the armed forces and Merchant Navy were equally crucial. Although heavily pressed in defence, offensive raids launched from the island by air and sea had a crippling effect on the Axis lines of communication with North Africa, and played a vital part in the eventual Allied success there.
Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery, which once belonged to the Admiralty, is divided into two sections, Protestant and Roman Catholic. Most of the 351 Commonwealth burials of the First World War form a triangular plot in the Protestant section, the rest are scattered elsewhere. Among those buried in the cemetery are 44 men from HMS "Egmont", the Depot ship at Malta, and 22 who died when HMS "Russell" was sunk by a mine off Malta in April 1916.
Most of the 694 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War are also in the Protestant section in a plot near the entrance, but there is another group in the Roman Catholic section. The rest are scattered.
The Commission also cares for 1,445 non-war burials in the cemetery, and 137 war graves of other nationalities.
Plot 5: Alfred Robert Burgess – Milk Roundsman
Ian Burgess – Grocer
In Loving Memory
of
ALFRED ROBERT BURGESS
loved husband of
Rita May
died 28th Nov. 1942
aged 48 years.
Also their loved son IAN
died 11th Dec. 1948 aged 22 years.
BURGESS. —On November 28, at Green Lane Hospital, Alfred Robert, dearly-beloved husband of Rita May, and father of Ian, Kenny, Graham, Bryan and the late Private Robert Burgess. Private interment from W. H. Tongue and Sons' Chapel to-day (Monday), at 2 p.m.
Plot 27a: Mary Elizabeth Thompson – Cancer
Plot 27b: Freeman Thompson (67) 16/9/1921 – Carpenter N.Z.R. – at Auckland Hospital
Plot 29: Irene Rose Thompson (18 months) 4/6/1916
In
Loving Memory of
MARY ELIZABETH,
beloved wife of
Freeman THOMPSON,
died 19 April 1909
aged 54 years
Rest sweetest rest.
DEATHS
THOMPSON.—On April 17, at her late residence, Khyber Pass Road, Mary Elizabeth, dearly-beloved wife of Freeman Thompson, sen., N.Z.R.; aged 54 years.
The funeral will leave for Waikumete at 2 p.m. today (Monday). Friends please accept this intimation.
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THOMPSON—On September 16, at the Auckland Hospital, Freeman Richard, dearly loved and loving husband of A. F. Thompson, late of N.Z. Railways. The funeral will leave his late residence, 31, Bath Street, Parnell, for the Waikumete Cemetery, to-morrow (Sunday), at 3 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation.
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THOMPSON.—On June 4, 1916, at her parents' residence, 3, Salisbury Street, Grey Lynn, Irene Rose (Molly), dearly-beloved youngest daughter of Freeman and Mary Thompson; aged 18 months. Late of Opua, Bay of Islands. Private interment at Waikumete.
Plot 34: Harry Frederick Humby (2 months) 1907 – Whooping cough
Walter Humby (72) 1946 – Labourer
In Loving Memory
of
FREDERICK HARRY
beloved infant son of
Walter & Amanda HUMBY
died 11th July 1907
aged 2 months.
WALTER HUMBY
died 10th July 1946.
DEATHS
HUMBY.—On July 10th, at his parents' residence, Oxford-st., Newton, Harry Frederick, dearly-beloved infant son of Walter and Amanda Humby; aged 2 months.
This cemetery first served as a burial ground for the family of Joseph and Catherine McCoy, pioneer settlers in the Green DeWitt colony. It was later used by residents of the Sandies Chapel community, the earliest graves date from the 1860s. Among, those interred here are San Jacinto veteran William Taylor, citizens of the Republic of Texas, local masonic leaders, and Civil War veterans, including members of the Sandies home guard. Also buried here are four pioneer Methodist ministers, A.A. Smithwick, T.G. Russell, James E. Vernor and C.W. Elkins. (1986) (Marker No. 4566)
The main burial site before the inception of Oakwood was Rose Hill Cemetery, which covered 11.8 acres in the north side of the city. People became dissatisfied with Rose Hill due to inaccessibility, the lack of natural beauty and the fact that it was not easily improved. Also within a few years, the growing city would encroach into the surrounding area. Between 1841 and 1935, 10,561 burials were made and only a few were moved to other cemeteries when it closed. In the 1950's, city workers buried most of the head stones in the interest of safety. The city planners wanted to make the land into a park but that could not happen until all of the bodies were removed which would involve obtaining permission from all families of those interred. Today, Rose Hill occupies about a city block and is a barren hillside with some tombstones at the top.
Found in the 1880 Census in the city of Syracuse Ward 4 with his parents Philip & Elizabeth. Both his parents were from Bavaria in Germany. Philip was 8 years old at the time of this census.
Allegheny Cemetery
Pittsburgh, Pa
3/3/11
Shot with Vivitar v200
0n bulk rolled Tmax 400
DIY Processed same day
Trinity Church's cemetery.
This is one of the longest continuously used houses of worship in all of America, as well as one of the oldest buildings in New York City. Located in Lower Manhattan, it was spared from damage when the nearby World Trade Center was destroyed on 11 September 2011.
Medfield, MA
Another fine cemetery I want to return to when the snow is gone. Huge, easy to get lost in, and graves from the colonial days to the present. My kind of place.
Plot 67: Christina Redfearn – Widow
In
Loving Memory
of
CHRISTINA
Beloved wife of
Harry REDFEARN
died
10th December 1943
aged 73 years.
At Rest.
REDFEARN.—On December 30 (suddenly), at Green Lane Hospital, Christina, dearly beloved wife of Harry Redfearn, 12, Carrie Street, Sandringham; aged 73 years.
Life's race well run.
Life's work well done.
Life's crown well won.
Now comes peace.
Funeral will leave W. F. Tongue and Son's Chapel to-morrow (Saturday) at 9.30 a.m. for Waikumete Cemetery.
The Corning Tomb
ANN ELIZA CORNING
Born -1813
New York, USA
Died: Sep. 1, 1893
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
(Loving wife of Timothy whom she married about 1831. Devoted mother of Gurdon and Louise C.(Bartlett). Dear daughter of Robert Dickerson.
Cause of Death: Paralysis)
GURDON CORNING
Born: May 31, 1832
Webster, New York, USA
Died: April 28, 1909
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
(Loving husband of 1st wife, Ida(Grout)whom he married May 15, 1867. Ida passed away January 17, 1869. Gurdon then married Lucy(Westren)on August 23, 1870. From this marriage Ida J.(Oxtoby)was born. Dear son of Timothy and Ann(Dickerson)Corning. Brother of Louisa(Bartlett). In his young days, Gurdon was a lumberman. Later a banker.
Cause of Death: Heart Disease)
LUCY CORNING
Born: December 28, 1842
Rives Junction, Michigan, USA
Died: December 22, 1920
San Anselmo, California, USA
(Loving wife of Gurdon whom she married August 23, 1870. Devoted mother of Ida(Oxtoby). Dear daughter of Jane(Bender)Westren. Lucy was one of the founders of the Y.W.C.A.
Cause of Death: Old Age)
TIMOTHY CORNING
Born:1803
Vermont, USA
Died: January 13, 1874
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
(Loving husband of Ann E.(Dickerson). Father of Gurdon and Louise(Bartlett).
Moved to East Saginaw in 1864 -pioneer/businessman.
Resided at 1446 South Washington Avenue. Was the forner director ot the First National Bank of Saginaw City.
Cause of Death: Heart Disease)
IDA JANE CORNING OXTOBY
Ida Jane Corning Oxtoby
Born: August 7, 1872
Saginaw, Michigan, USA
Died: September 7, 1962
San Rafael, California, USA
(Loving wife of Rev. William Henry Oxtoby. Devoted mother of Gurdon C., Florence C. and John C. Dear daughter of Gurdon and Lucy(Westren)Corning.)
Brady Hill Cemetery
Saginaw, Michigan
Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, United States
Prospect Cemetery, the early graveyard of the small town of Jamaica, is one of the few remaining Colonial cemeteries in Queens. In the early 1600s, this site was part of the land belonging to the local tribe of Indians known as the "Yemecah", meaning beaver, an animal which thrived in the area. In 1656, a group of English colonists petitioned the Dutch Governor-General, Peter Stuyvesant, to grant them a settlement which was near today's John F. Kennedy Airport.
Apparently, this site was not satisfactory, and later in the same year, the colonists moved northward, and described themselves: "We owners by purchase from the Indians and grant from the Governor and Council — living at ye new plantation near unto beaver pond, commonly called Jamaica -- ... have reserved unto ourselves 10 acres of planting land a man ...." The Dutch called this area "Rustdorp", but after the surrender of the colony to the British, "Jamaica" was used exclusively.
In its first year of existence, the settlement elected Daniel Denton, a member of a family which was to remain in the area for generations, as clerk of both the town and church, illustrating the interrelationship between church and government in this early period. It was not until thirty years later, in 1686, however, that Jamaica was granted its charter as a village by British Governor, Thomas Dongan.
The earliest record of the cemetery dates from November, 1668, when townsman John Wascot was hired to enclose the "burring plas", then ten rods square, with a fence, five rails high.
The cemetery was established, therefore., shortly before 1668, since it is doubtful that the town would allow such hallowed ground to stand unprotected for very long. Several references were made to the "burring place" during the 17th century, when citing other locations in the town.
The cemetery was generally known as the Presbyterian burial ground, since it was associated with the Old Stone Church built in the 1690s, which stood near today's Union Hall Street. Due, however, to the close interaction of church and state -- the church served also as the town hall -- the cemetery was as well the property of the Town of Jamaica.
The Presbyterian congregation in Jamaica came to blows with the Episcopalians in 1704, when the property belonging to the Church was confiscated and turned over to a representative of the Church of England, William Urquhart, an Episcopalian minister. Urquhart occupied the parsonage for five years, until he died in 1709.
Shortly afterwards his wife surrendered the property to Reverend George McNish, a Presbyterian minister. However, simultaneously, another Episcopalian preacher arrived in Jamaica, who thought he should occupy the parsonage. Ultimately, the decision, aided by. the authority of the Presbyterian sheriff, was made by the town, and Reverend McNish moved into the parsonage.
In 1753, the intimate relationship between church and town came to an end when it was voted at a town meeting to grant the land set apart for the use of "a minister of Presbyterian denomination" to the Presbyterian Church and congregation, for them "to have and to hold ... forever in trust". The cemetery, however, was not specified as part of this transfer.
As late as 1879, the Town of Jamaica still retained title to the original burying ground, but it may be possible that the Presbyterian Church used the cemetery, while not actually owning it. When the Presbyterian Church applied to Governor William Tryon for incorporation in 1775, "a cemetery for the interment of their Dead" was mentioned, but whether this was the town burial ground, or another separate graveyard, is not known.
During the Revolutionary War, the men of Jamaica, many of whom were buried in the cemetery, played a prominent role.
This area, was essentially a Loyalist stronghold, but a militant minority formed a local Committee of Correspondence and Observation to popularize patriot sentiment. The Committee chairman, Elias Baylis, died in 1777 and was buried in the cemetery. The tombstone erected over his grave after 1843 tells of his long suffering at the hands of the British during the war. Captain J.J. Skidmore, also buried here, formed a band of Minutemen, made up of local soldiers, which later became part of Colonel Lasher's First New York Battalion. This group held Cobble Stone Hill Fort during the Battle of Long Island.
The early graveyard was entered from an extension of Beaver Road, on the north side of today's Prospect Cemetery. Gradually, in the first half of the 19th century, its size was increased as various individuals purchased the land surrounding the cemetery and laid it out in family plots. Although it had been a common practice to bury one's relatives in their family farm property, when the farm was sold, often the family remains were removed.
One such instance occurred in 1840, when Garret Nostrand sold his family farm at the Wallabout and purchased a lot in the Jamaica graveyard in order to bury the boxes containing the remains of his ancestors. Such private lots as these extended the boundaries of the cemetery at Its western and its northern ends.
Still another reason for the purchase of cemetery lots was the incentive for profit. One of the largest lot holders was Isaac Simonson, a local carpenter, whose house stood on a large tract of land to the south of the original burying ground. In 1841, Simonson purchased some land to the west of the cemetery and subdivided it into lots for sale. He advertised these burial plots as "adjoining the old Presbyterian Burial ground", and today this section forms the western extension of the cemetery.
Three acres were added to the cemetery in 1856, when Nicholas Ludlum, a wealthy New York City hardware merchant whose family had long resided in Jamaica, purchased the land between the east side of the "old burying ground" and Prospect Street (today's 159th Street) from the Long Island Railroad Company.
The addition encompassed "about 10 lots", most of which Ludlum sold. According to an article in the Long Island Farmer of 1856, Ludlum planned to improve and beautify the cemetery grounds. In the next year, 1857, Ludlum, at his own expense, had a small chapel erected, as a memorial to his three daughters, each of whom had died at an early age.
Ludlum's first daughter, Cornelia Maria, died at the age of thirteen, while the next, Mary Cecelia, lived only to the age of one, and his third, Mary, who had married Lewis Cass, Jr., the U.S. Minister in Rome, died at the age of twenty one. Called the Chapel of the Sisters, the building was to be used for family interment.
Small in scale, this Romanesque Revival style chapel is of random ashlar fieldstone with decorative light brown-colored sandstone trim. The gable-roofed structure, originally crowned with handsome iron cresting, has gabled porticoes at both its 159th Street entrance and its cemetery side. Since the chapel was used for burials, the funeral party no doubt entered the chapel at the 159th Street entrance, and after the services made its way to the grave site through the cemetery doorway.
A large round arch, completely enframed with alternating voussoirs of fieldstone and sandstone, leads to the deeply recessed arched doorway at the 159th Street entrance. Above the door, a stone tympanum, encircled by an inscription, is ornamented with the religious symbols of the Bible and a cross, as well as a scythe, representing death. This portico, like that at the cemetery side, is embellished with sandstone quoins and also a row of corbels which follows the rake of the gable.
On the cemetery side, the large round-arched door, now filled in, is flanked on either side by small, narrow arched windows with sandstone trim. At the north and south ends of the chapel, large stained-glass rose windows elegantly pierce the heavy fieldstone walls. The chapel was a handsome addition to the cemetery, and it remains today one of its principal points of interest. This three-acre Ludlum extension greatly changed the configuration of the older graveyard, since the cemetery was now entered from the east at Prospect Street (159th Street), with the more recent grave sites near the chapel.
The cemetery, consisting of a number of different sections added over a 200-year period, was taken over by a single group in 1879, when the Prospect Cemetery Association of Jamaica Village, Inc., was formed. This is the first record of the name "Prospect" for the cemetery. Before the Prospect Cemetery Association acquired the property, the cemetery was still owned by the Town of Jamaica. Eventually, the Association, which still exists today, received title to all of the cemetery grounds.
Very little has chanced in Prospect Cemetery since the end of the 19th century, save for the addition of new graves, narked frequently by tall obelisks, which contrast vividly with the earlier, smaller gravestones. During the summer of 1976, selected family grave sites were cleared of debris and brush as part of a Bicentennial Project, sponsored by Community Planning Board 12 in Queens.
Prospect Cemetery is a valuable reminder of much of the early history of Queens, and especially of Jamaica. The earliest section of the cemetery begins approximately at the site of the Raynor family plot and extends to the west, to join Isaac Simonson's 1841 addition.
This original portion is also much narrower than the present graveyard and totals an area of 165 square feet. Many of the old tombstones are of brownstone with various types of ornamentation. It is believed that the earliest gravestone in the old part of the cemetery dates from 1709.
Another old tombstone is that of Thomas Wiggens, who died in 1728, His brownstone grave marker is carved in a very simple manner with his name and the date of death. The 1737 tombstone of Thomas Walton is more richly carved. Its three-arched top is ornamented with an angel's head of a primitive design, and a decorative curvilinear motif extending along either side. The angel head was a common theme on gravestones and occurs quite often in the cemetery.
The brownstone grave marker of Obadiah Mills, who died at the age of twenty six on September 17, 1773, also displays an angel with wings. In some instances, skulls replaced the angel's head. Many of these early grave markers, also ornamented with curvilinear designs, are' of limestone.
A number of Revolutionary War veterans, many of whom served with Skidmore's Minutemen, are buried in the cemetery. These include several members of the earlier generation of the Ludlum family who were part of the Minutemen band. Increase Carpenter (1733/6-1807), who fought in the Battle of Long Island, is also buried here.
One of the most renowned figures in the cemetery is Egbert Benson (1746-1833), who in 1794 served as Justice of the Supreme Court and in 1801 was Chief Justice of the U.S. Circuit Court, which was abolished soon after. Benson then retired to Jamaica, where he died.
Behind this old section of the cemetery, extend the lots sold by Isaac Simonson. Since these date from a later period, a few obelisks characteristic of the later 19th century, may be seen there.
It was common for Negroes to be excluded from white cemeteries, and such was the case with Prospect. One exception, however, was made and is recorded as: "Jane Lyons, a colored woman, who upwards of 65 years was a faithful and devoted domestic in the family of James Hariman, Sr., of this village, died December 19, 1858, Age 75 years."
Many names of the important early families of the area appear throughout the cemetery, and these include Sutphin, after whom Sutphin Boulevard was named, and Van Wickes, for whom the Van Wyck Expressway was named. Relatives of many of the original settlers of the Village of Jamaica continued to be buried in the cemetery at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
These graves are marked by ornate tombstones and tall granite obelisks. A descendant of one of the early local families, John H. Brinkerhoff (d.1903), the village supervisor, and his wife Laura (d. 1891), have a richly decorated tombstone, topped with a small ornamental sarcophagus, incised with the letter "B".
The very early origins of the cemetery, together with its 19th century additions, make it an important part of the history of Jamaica. Its early Colonial period is marked by the picturesque tombstones of many members of the town's prominent families, as well as several veterans of the Revolutionary War.
The Simonson and Ludlum additions border, in part, the old graveyard and are occupied by many 19th-century obelisks. The fine Romanesque Revival Chapel of the Sisters is a particularly handsome feature of the cemetery and is a monument to an important local family, the Ludlums. The cemetery remains today in a well-preserved state, due primarily to the care and interest of the Prospect Cemetery Association.
- From the 1977 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report