“The body of Mrs. Mary Tunny of Rensselaer was this morning removed from St. John’s cemetery in Albany to St. John’s cemetery in Rensselaer by Undertaker John K. Sullivan. Mrs. Tunny was the grandmother of William A. Lithgow of Rensselaer. The body has been in the Albany cemetery 85[?] years.” “Body Removed.” Albany Evening Journal. November 25, 1903: 9 col 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfS1pialQ3U3BiVU0/edit?usp=sharing Where is/was St. John’s Cemetery in the City of Rensselaer? I wonder if some other St. John’s in Rensselaer County might have been meant? There’s St. John’s on the Hill in Lansingburgh http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1782379 and St. John’s in Schaghticoke near Elmwood and the Fairgrounds http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=66005 I don’t know if there are or might have been others. If it had been an error by the newspaper, possibly it could’ve been Saint John the Evangelist Cemetery in Spencerport, a suburb of Rochester. Rev. McCloskey from St. John’s in Albany was reinterred to Rochester, though which cemetery I don’t know. A William A. Lithgow died in Rochester around 1925, but I don’t know if it was the same one. Chris
The parish cemetery for St John the Evangelist church in Rensselaer was renamed to Holy Sepulchre (actually in East Greenbush) http://www.churchofstjohnstjoseph.org/06cemeteryhistory.cfm > On May 30, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Christopher Philippo <toff@mac.com> wrote: > > Where is/was St. John’s Cemetery in the City of Rensselaer? > > I wonder if some other St. John’s in Rensselaer County might have been meant?