JAMAICIA LONG ISLAND,N.Y.
Prospect Cemetery
The first mention I could find in the town records of this cemetery, which
is the oldest one in Jamaicia, was under date of November 5, 1668. When at a
town meeting it was agreed that John Wascot was to fence the burying place,
with good and sufficent five rail fence before the middle of next March. He
was to fence it ten rods square and to have four pounds in current pay for
his pains and labor.
Under date of December 5, 1670, at a town meeting it was decided that
William Brinkly was to have a piece of land on the west side of the burial
place, leaving a sufficient highway between his fence and Beaver Pond.
The History of Queens County says, that when the old Presbyterian Church
was torn down in 1813, the bones of Rev. Patrick Gordon, who died July 28,
1702, and thoes of Rev. William Urquhart who died the last of August 1709,
and those of two wives of Rev. Thomas Poyer, whom had been buried under this
church, were gathered up, put in a box and buried in the Village Cemetery.If
this be true no markers tell us of their resting place.
In 1857, Nicholas Ludlum of New York, purchased three acres of land, east
of the old burying ground and built a chapel at his own expense in memory of
his daughters.
This cemetery, containing the remains of the pioneers of this place, was
incorporated in 1879 under the name of The Prospect Cemetery. Ir is sad to
record that many old stones have been used to form a walk and new graves are
being made over the old ones.
Copied by Josephine C. Frost (Mrs Samuel F. Frost) Sept. 1910
IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THE NUMBERS--
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHO ELSE IS IN THAT GRAVE!!!
EXAMPLE--# 65 --LOOK FOR ANOTHER # 65
Name & Plot#
ABDELL--120
ACKER----35
ALLEN-4,66,86,87,134
ALLAN--22,23
ALSTON14,156
AMBERMAN, -9.28.67.68
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ANDERTON-51
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ARESON--40,68,90
ASPINWALL-21,50
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BUTLER-24
BYVANCK
CALLOW-45
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CARLE-27
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CHAPMAN-47
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CLARY-44
CLINTON-82
COE-71-87
COLE-72
COMBS-2
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CORNELL-4-68-87-122
CORNWALL-47
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FURMAN-39
. G. 106
GARRETSON-24
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GAU-57
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GOBLE-86
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GREENFIELD-58
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GUTTS-38
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HALLETT-35
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HERON-34
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ILIFF-23
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IRVIN-49
JACKSON-78
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JORDAN-129
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KEELING-35
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LINGOLD-19
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LUDLAN
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LYONS-56
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OAKEY-79-46
OAKLEY-38-59-91
O'DONNELL-35
OGDEN-6
OLDFIELD-42-54
OLDS-40
OSTRANDER-30-53
OUSTERMAN-59
Also..
BURIALS IN PROSPECT CEMETERY
NOV. 1942 --- JAN 4 1962
Records by George Winans,Supt.
ANDREWS, Ida May- MARCH 9, 951
BEDELL, Ella Ann-Dec. 31,1946
BLACKWELL, Mary-Feb. 25,1953
BLANCHARD, Jennie-Mar. 12,1953
BOERUM, George-July 11,1949
BRAWLEY, ANNA L.- MAY 11,1955
BRAWLEY, Charles R.- Nov. 3,1951
BRUNDAGE, Irving A.-May 6, 1946
BRUSH, Samuel L.-April 10,1944
CARMAN, Frank Pearsall-June 12, 1943
CORNELL, Henriette-Sept 29, 1944
CORNELL, John-April 25, 1943
CRONIN, Hattie M.-Sept 3, 1943
CREED, Ida J.-May 24 1947
CULLEN, Beulah Neail-Dec 23,1946
DENTON, Anna B.-Aug 26,1948
ERNST, John-Feb. 28, 1953
FADER, John F.-Oct. 12, 1944
FOGARTY, (BABY BOY)-July 17,1946
FOGARTY, Harold-Nov. 15, 1961
FOGARTY, Marion E.-June 21,1943
FOGARTY, William-May 19,1945
GILMOUR, Lydia-Sept 7,1944
GORDON, Kenneth M.-July 21,1943
GRACY, Mary Elizabeth-July 16,1945
GUSHEE,Eveline H.-Feb 28, 1946
HARDENBURGH, Martha Brush-July 10,1954
HARTLEY, Richard Sr.-Nov. 4, 1948
HENDRICKSON, Sarah Emily-July 24,1945
KENNEDY, John J.-Oct 17,1946
KIRBY, CHAPMAN M.-MAY 11,1945
KIRBY, Margaret Walsh-Jan 4,1953
KNUDSON, Hedvig Anna-Feb. 15,1947
LAW, Edith-Feb. 26,1949
LUDLAM, Clarence F.-Jan 9,1958
McWHORTER, Charles F.-Jan 9,1958
McWHORTER, Harriette Emma-Aug. 13,1946
MAESTY, John-Feb. 1,1954
MALCHER, Charlotte C.-Dec 9, 1953
MARSHALL, Peter-Dec 20,1952
PARBUS, Caroline-July 1,1944
PARKS, Mary Emma-nov. 27,1942
PATTERSON, Evelyn-Dec. 30,1957
POOLE, Donald-Nov. 22, 1961
POWELL, Fannie A.-Apr. 28, 1948
SCHAREN, Lillian- Dec 5,1950
SCHMIDT, Elizabeth-Dec. 11,1944
SCHMIDT, William Christ-Feb. 18,1944
SEFESIK, Mary-Mar 17,1948
SEAWARD, John-June 7,1952
SIMMONS, Joseph-Jan 22,1946
SMITH, Madeline-Dec 11,1943
SPALDING, Emma Stoothoff-Sept 21,1945
STROH, Mae E.-Oct 4,1949
SULING, Hattie Ella-Apr. 30,1956
SUYDAM, Bertha-MARCH 19,1952
THORNE, Fred, March 28, 1949
UNDERHILL, Herbert Whitson-Aug 7,1947
WALTER, Charles-Dec 28, 1946
WARD, John B. Jr.-Jan 9,1956
WICKES, Eliza Herriman-June 25, 1949
WOLF, Conrad-Died June 27 1953
ZIMMER, Vera- June 26, 1952
See also: PROSPECT
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