I included some of the surrounding area because when searching for our ancestors,they are never where we expect them to be.!!
Knollwood Park Cemetery (Jewish) Cypress Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11207, (718) 386-6700
This Catholic cemetery has been in operation since 1820 and is owned/governed by the Brooklyn Diocese. Visiting hours are 9AM-4PM daily; office hours are 9AM-5PM weekdays 9am-1pm on Saturday. Records Information: Records are housed at Catholic Cemeteries Office; Middle Village, Queens. searches by office personnel only, no appointment is necessary. Branchevergreen or Branch Evergreen is a part of this cemetery. April 11th, 2002 issue of the Ridgewood Times / Times Newsweekly in the "Our Neighborhood: The Way It Was" Mr. James Mueller of Meshoppen, Pennsylvania writes the following: .. "In the 1800s, a Brooklyn tinsmith donated the land for Most Holy Trinity Cemetery to Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church on Montrose Avenue in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn. His only request was that all grave markers be either wood, copper or tin thereby ensuring his livelihood. Over the years the church maintained that rule, but now will allow flat stone monuments."
Union Cemetery, Brooklyn This cemetery, once located near Wyckoff Ave. was closed in 1897 to make way for Bushwick High School. Over 20,000 burials were reinterred at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Flushing in the 'Union' section. It is said that very few headstones remain and that all records have been lost. Originally owned jointly by the Grand Street and Attorney Street Methodist Churches.
Article in Bklyn Standard Union 6 November 1906 WANT OLD BURIAL GROUND FOR PARK Demanding more public parks for Brooklyn, a host of Brooklynites stormed the Board of Estimate meeting in the City Hall, to-day. Most of those present were there to advocate the laying out of a public park bounded by Knickerbocker avenue, Putnam avenue, Palmetto street and a new street to form the southwesterly boundary of said park; in other words, on the old Union Cemetery site. Jared J. CHAMBERS, president of the Twenty-eighth Ward Taxpayers' Protective Association, headed the delegation, which represented thirteen Brooklyn civic bodies. Mr. CHAMBERS did all the speaking, because when he got through the Mayor said Mr. CHAMBERS had fully enlightened the Board, Mr. COLER adding that there was apparently no opposition. Mr. CHAMBERS said in part: "We are here to advocate a public playground for the Bushwick and Ridgewood section, on the old Union Cemetery site, in the Twenty-eighth Ward. Our ward is composed mostly of tenement houses, and many of the parents who occupy them can ill afford to send their children to the country in the summer, and the time after school hours and before dark will not permit the child (even if their parents would allow them) to visit the playgrounds and large parks in other parts of our borough." "In 1896, notwithstanding our ward, the Twenty-eighth, was the largest in the old City of Brooklyn, the authorities purchased a small plot of ground, three and one-half acres, for a park. This park, Irving Square, is one of the smallest in the borough, and the children have no room in it to play. In 1897, the first year of the consolidation, the Union Cemetery, right in the heart of a congested district of the ward, was sold, and the bodies were removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery. The ground was left in a terrible condition, and it is worse to-day than ever. This large plot is surrounded by large tenements, some of them containing eight familes." "In view of the fact that this congested section, known as the Bushwick-Ridgewood district, has no park or playground, and that this site presented an ideal place for a playground, where the children could play, exercise and having a breathing place, and as this was unimproved property, we started a movement to secure a public playground on that site. According to the census of 1900 the ward numbered 77,913, and so rapid has been the growth that to-day we have a population over 100,000, and still increasing. A large part of the Twenty-seventh ward and a portion of the Borough of Queens which borders on the Twenty-eighth ward would be benefited by this playground, as it would be very close to them." In the book, "The graveyard shift," Carolee Inskeep states that about 30,000 people were buried in Union Cemetery (Methodist Protestant) between 1851 and its closure in 1893. Bodies were moved to Cedar Grove Cemetery, along with records, after it was sold for development. Write to: Cedar Grove Cemetery 13416 Horace Harding Expressway Flushing, NY 11367-1099 718-939-2041
From www.infoplease.com: Maimonides [Pronunciation: [mImon´idEz] or Moishe (Moses) ben Maimon [Pronunciation: [mI´mun] ] 1135–1204, Jewish scholar, physician, and philosopher, the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, b. Córdoba, Spain, d. Cairo. He is sometimes called Rambam, from the initials of the words Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. His organization and systemization of the corpus of Jewish oral law, is called the Mishneh Torah [the Torah Reviewed] and is still used as a standard compilation of halakah. He also produced a number of discourses on legal topics; a work on logic; a treatise on the calendar; and several medical books, including an important work on hygiene. His great philosophical work is the Moreh Nevukhim (tr., Guide for the Perplexed, 1963), written in Arabic, in which he explained the esoteric ideas in the Bible, formulated a proof of the existence of G-d, expounded the principles of creation, and elucidated baffling metaphysical and religious problems. The Moreh Nevukhim, which reflects Maimonides's great knowledge of Aristotelian philosophy, dominated Jewish thought and exerted a profound influence upon Christian thinkers. The Oath of Maimonides The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children. May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, G-d, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling. Walter Greenspan
Wonderful book out by Carolee Inskeep: The Graveyard Shift. Available thru Ancestry.com. You can use the link below if you want to take a look.