* Cohoes City Cemetery (now West End Park) and Cohoes’ section of Crescent Union Cemetery (completed forested) * Calvary Cemetery, Cohoes (closed 1958) https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7Mt-S77wZKfNzQyYzlrX3NIclU&usp=sharing Sad cases. Finding anybody in those, except for a very few, might be impossible. > in 1968 the Union Cemetery Board of Trustees notified Mayor James [E.] McDonald that the City of Cohoes was behind in the payment of their annual upkeep annuity of twenty-two dollars for minimal maintenance. The City had been negligent since 1952. The Mayor’s response was: “I can’t see why we should pay this money annually when we aren’t getting any use of it.” > Today those hallowed grounds are a forgotten disgrace. Lipka, Walter. “The Old Cohoes Burying Ground.” Spindle City Historic Society Newsletter 9(4). Winter 2006. 1, 8. http://www.spindlecity.net/NewsLetters/2006-4-Winter.pdf > Tom Ballard, President of Union Cemetery in Crescent stated that the City of Cohoes owns about and acre and half adjacent to Union Cemetery, which is not being maintained. Asking at this time to have someone clean up the area. Cohoes Common Council Proceedings. July 24, 2007. http://www.cohoes.com/Cit-e-Access/towncouncil/index.cfm?tid=34&tpid=6356&mid=8879&view=M&Print=1 “The city of Cohoes is not in the business of running cemeteries” - Mayor John T. McDonald III [primarily addressing Van Schaick Cemetery, but it seems to apply to Cohoes section of Crescent Union Cemetery too] Roman, Dayelin. "Cohoes group takes over historic cemetery, seeks to solve its mystery; Cohoes cemetery's historic merit is unquestioned -- it's the ownership that's uncertain." Albany Times Union. November 15, 2011. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Cohoes-group-takes-over-historic-cemetery-seeks-2271155.php > The work of grading and clearing the land at Old Calvary Cemetery in the southern section of Cohoes has been completed and the plot will probably be landscaped and beautified next spring, it was learned today. > All of the brush, weeds and small trees have been removed from the site, together with most of the old headstones, which were fallen or in a dilapidated condition. > The cemetery is the property of St. Bernard’s Church but it has not been used for burial purposes for many years. Several former priests of the parish and the ancestors of many present members of the congregation were interred there. The bodies of more than a dozen veterans of the Civil War and the Spanish-American War were previously moved from the Cohoes Cemetery to a special veterans plot in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Waterford. > Some of the larger stones and monuments which are in good condition, have been allowed to stand. Included are those marking the graves of Rev. Thomas Keveny, pastor of St. Bernard's Church from 1855 to 1882, and his nephew who succeeded him, Rev. Thomas S. Keveny, who died in 1925. > Plans for the improvement project were made last June when lot holders and other persons interested in the former burial site met with Rev. James P. Lawlor, supervisor of cemeteries in the Albany Catholic Diocese. > Calvary Cemetery is located off the southern terminus of Lincoln avenue. It lies south of Bridge street and west of Saratoga street, along the Delaware Hudson Railroad line. "Improvement of Cemetery Completed.” Times Record. November 14, 1957: 24 col 5. Chris Philippo