Following is excerpted from an article about the Third Street Burial Ground in Troy when part of it was about to be moved to Oakwood Cemetery to make way for City Hall: > THE GRAVE STONES LAID DOWN. > In 1846, some over-nice people, not liking the appearance of the marble grave stones in the heart of the city, induced the common council to order them laid down flat on the ground, and it also ordered a monument erected in the centre of the park. The first part of this provision was carried out. The second was never performed. Before the stones were laid, with prudent forethought, a map was drawn of the property by William Barton, city engineer, upon which he indicated the position of each grave, and the name of the deceased. This map is still in existence, and will be useful in the exhuming of the remains. The number of bodies contained in the burial ground at that time was one hundred and sixty-eight. At least the presence of that number was indicated by grave stones. There are doubtless many others whose resting places are unmarked. > OUR ANCESTORS. > The following is a list of the persons interred as taken from the Barton map. During the past two weeks Engineer Uline has been notifying all persons known to have relatives buried there to remove them; blanks indicate stones unmarked: > Sally Doyle; Margaret Ayers; —; —; John Thompson; H. C. Hornblower; Sarah Cantwell; B. Pierce; Abigal —; Jesse Buell; Ann Baxter; Andrew Baxter; Samuel D; Betsey —‘ Joseph Wicks; Mary —; Fanny Raymond; Juliet Raymond; Catharine Buckingham; Edward Webb; John Cray; Samuel Bragg; Mary Ann Ross; Eleazer Hall; Frederick Sellick; H. Coit; George Chapman; Nancy Chapman; Keturah Chapman; Elizabeth Hull; Eleanor A. Rodgers; John McCoun; —; T. Q. —; Eliza Reid; Cornelius Adriance; Dinah Adriance; Jane Wiswall; Benjamin Carpenter; John H. Clark; George Groton; Julia —; Jemima Hodgekin; Jane Brush; Ruth Dauchy; Harriet M. Dauchy; Sally H. Dauchy; Elizabeth Taft; William —; Benjamin Wilbur; Sally Wilbur; Elizabeth Wilbur; Philena Parker; Daniel Young; W. B. —; Albert Hatch; —; Rufus J. Skelding; Albert Lockwood; Asa Shelton, inst; — James Wilbur; Hannah—; Letty Clark; Asa Washburn Bigelow; James W. Sancha; Caroline Matilda Skelding; Thos. SKelding; Ebenezer Thomas Skelding; W. T. Baggs; Ebenezer Jones; Ebenezer Jones, jr.; Sarah E. Jones; George Sherman; — Parker; Lydia Waterman; Israel Waters; Mary Merritt; Amelia Wright; Caroline —; Catharine L. Russell; Mary Pennyman; Jemima S. Wolcott; Sally Wolcott; Elisha —; Barbara Tomlinson; Nathan Taylor; —; J. F. T.; John Stoughton; Richard McCoun; Jane McCoun; Isaac, son of Townsend M. and Sarah McCoun; G. Davis; Thomas Davis; S. McClure; Sally Spencer; Betsey Spencer; Mary, wife of Amos Salisbury; Betsey Wilson; — Wilson; Sarah Earl; Elizabeth Wheeler; Harry Chittenden Kimberly; Harriet —; Caroline P—; Stephen W. Lassett; Harry Van Rensselaer; William —; John Cary Hill; Elizabeth Ruggles; Jonathan Truesdale; Benjamin Truesdale; Jerusha Truesdale; Chester Truesdale; Charles Truesdale; Harriet Burrows; Enoch Burrows; —; —; William —; Harriet Pierce; Stephen A. Piece; Prudence Stevens; George H. Pierce; E. F. —; Menbah P. —; Jeremiah Pearce; Jesse —; Augusta Smith; Abel Converse; Betsey Cheever; Augustus —; Betsey —; Anna A. King; Hiram W. Lore; Elizabeth Kelley; M. Betts; M. Cone; —; Mary Coonradt; Daniel Salisbury; Julia Muller; Jane F. Muller; C. Muller; Benjamin Nichols, and Amy his wife; Polly Brainard. > The Gale vault erected by the father of John B. and E. Thompson Gale, still remains, though the bodies of the Gale family were removed many years ago to Oakwood. > THE LAST CEREMONY. > The last ceremony in this burial ground our informant states, was the Masonic obsequies in 1850 of the late President Zachary Taylor, of course without inhumation. Since that time the gates have only been opened to allow entrance for the purpose of keeping the grounds in some sort of order. The following is a communication that in addition to the one published yesterday, explains in a measure the attitude of the city authorities in the matter of taking the burial ground as a site for a city hall. The commission intend to proceed with the work as soon as the proper authority is obtained from the common council. “Third Street Burial Ground; A Brief Historical Sketch—The First and Last Interments in the Old Burial Ground—The Vanderheyden Troy Daily Times. June 22, 1875: 3 col 2. From some other 1875 articles: > In Memory > of > RUTH DAUCHY, > Wife of Nathan Dauchy, who > departed this life > NOVEMBER 20th, 1816, > Aged 46 years. […] > This morning the > GALE VAULT > was also opened. It is covered by two brown stone slabs, which bear this inscrription: > DR. SAMUEL GALE’s > FAMILY VAULT. > It contains no bodies and is partly filled up with earth which has been allowed to fall into it. It is an excavation surrounded by four walls. > OTHER REMOVALS > will be made during the present week. Early next week it is probably that the remains of John and Elizabeth McCoun and their two children and two grandchildren, all of whom were interred in the first row of graves fronting on Third street, south of State, will be removed and taken to Oakwood under the supervision of their living descendants. > Four bodies were removed this morning; one was that of Mrs. Jerusha Truesdell, who was buried seventy-six years ago. > John Gary, son of Holden and > Deborah Hill > who was drown- > a > ded in tan vat > May 12, 1911 > aged 1 yr 9 mo > and 14 days. > This morning a stone was found which recorded the death of Mary Coonred, in 1811, and which contained this question: > “Why should she wish for to stay here, > Since heven claimed her for a higher sphere?”