Marble Cemetery Records, New York City, New York, 1830-1937

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The oldest extant non-sectarian cemetery in New York City, the Marble Cemetery was designed in 1830 with solid marble vaults built completely underground. This database includes the names of all 2,060 persons buried there. All the families that purchased vaults in the cemetery were important to the dynamic commercial, social, and cultural life of New York in the early nineteenth century. Each record provides the decedent's name, vault number, and burial date. After 1840, at least a fourth of all burials were removed to the newly popular rural cemeteries such as Green-Wood. All known removals and re-interments are noted in the "Comment" field, though there may be more that the Cemetery failed to record. For researchers of well-to-do New York City ancestors, this can be a helpful source of information.

Sources Brown, Anne Wright. New York Marble Cemetery Interments, 1830-1937, With Additional Biographical Information Gathered from Family Genealogies, Newspapers, and City Directories. Rhinebeck, NY: Kinship, 1999.

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