On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:26:08 -0400, Rebecca Rector wrote: > Chris - that last item about Mt. Ida Cemetery is interesting. I don't think there are any markers for the "coloured population" that is apparently buried there. I wonder how many were buried in that special section? Maybe those Troy burial records on film at the library identified some of them. The burial records do identify some people as “colored.” If there are any who are identified by name, and if their graves are marked, it might be possible to work out where the section was - assuming the resolution was passed. August 6, 1835: “Resolved that the Burial Ground Committee be and they hereby are authorized to set a part a piece of Ground on the New Burial Ground in this City [Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue] for the exclusive use of the Coloured population. The only headstone in the Pawling Ave cemetery I can remember belonging to an African-American is for: Absolom S. Bishop (1844-1893) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=119503881 Part of his headstone has cleaved off in a somewhat unusual way, seen in the photo at the above link. "Absalom Bishop, who died Thursday at Peekskill, will be buried to-morrow afternoon from the A. M. E. Zion church. The deceased was a well-known colored resident of this city. Among the colored people he was a sort of Beau Brummell, and his last days were almost as pathetic as those of his famous prototype. Despite the vagaries of fortune, Mr. Bishop remained the same courtly, dignified person. His beaver hat, long cuffs and cane were always retained. In his younger days he was famous as a whistler, and he could pour forth melody as sweet as the notes of a lark. Mr. Bishop was head waiter at the Troy house, the Mansion house and one of the large hotels at Saratoga during certain periods of his life. he was the son of Rev. Edward and Leah Bishop, and was in the prime of life." "Obituary." Troy Daily Times. April 1, 1893: 2 col 6. There seems to be a Liberty Street Presbyterian Church section in the back of New Mount Ida Cemetery, but I don’t know if that cemetery was otherwise segregated or not. Also at New Mount Ida, a number of African-American Civil War veterans according to “Their Last Resting-Place; Where the Veterans are Buried—Under the Tents of Green—Soldiers’ Graves to be Decorated.” Troy Daily Times. May 28, 1885: 1 cols 4-5: Stephen Batill, thirty-first colored Edward Hamlin, fourteenth regular, colored John Jackson, thirty-first regular, colored George Mason, second colored Andrew Van Schaack, twentieth regiment, colored Their headstones might be buried, or their graves unmarked, or possibly they were reinterred elsewhere, because the visible, readable headstones in that cemetery have pretty much all been added to findagrave, and those men’s names don’t turn up on findagrave. Chris