Cemetery and burial information, 1830-[ca. 1975].

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Cemetery and burial information, 1830-[ca. 1975].

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Material pertaining to burial of members of St. Mark's Church, most buried in its own churchyard. Material includes correspondence regarding family vaults and other matters, and burial information about specific individuals. Cremation and transition certificates, vault deeds, and some biographical information about people interred. Also, vault lists of St. Mark's Church and blueprint map of the vaults. Also, correspondence and vault lists about individuals and families including Commander Matthew Calbraith Perry (especially about his memorial service), Governor Daniel Tompkins, and the Schermerhorns. Some of the prominent families who are buried at St. Mark's Church are Fish, Lydig, Schermerhorn, Stuyvesant, and Van Beuren. In addition, burial records on index cards for individuals buried at St. Mark's Church or for whom services were held. Material pertaining to plots owned by the Church at Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn includes register of vaults, list of lots sold and to whom sold, correspondence, and articles of Evergreens Cemetery lots to St. Mark's Church.

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