Dear Angela, Franklin Street is only three blocks north of Duane, so I would definitely concentrate on that area. Anne ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Angela Munro" <basenjigirl@gmail.com> To: awb@chesapeake.net Received: 6/27/2010 9:47:36 AM Subject: Re: NYC-ROOTS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 149 >Thanks so much Anne! I will look into your suggestions. According >to >this death information, he lived on Franklin St at the time of his >death. Any other suggestions? >Angela >On Jun 27, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Anne W. Brown wrote: >> >> Dear Angela, >> >> Carolee Inskeep's "Graveyard Shift" lists about a dozen Methodist > >> Episcopal churches and cemeteries on Manhatan, so it would be >worth >> your getting the book. Many didn't have their own burial grounds >> and jointly used a cemetery - now long gone - that was in the >block >> between 1st, 2nd, !st Av , and 2nd Av. After the final earthen >> burial ban in 1851, 15,000 M.E. burials were removed to Cypress >> Hills on Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn. They came from both the 1st St. >> cemetery and individual church yards, so you might want to try >> Cypress Hills. >> >> The 1829 city directory lists three Popes: a grocer, a rigger, and >> a carpenter. Concentrate on the carpenter, since he is Charles >> Pope, 216 Duane St. Carpenters made coffins, of course, so >being a >> sexton was a fitting sideline. The 1833 Hooker and 1834 Burr >maps >> show a Methodist church on Duane between Hudson and >Greenwich. If >> the street numbers haven't changed much, that's right near #216. >> >> In her disussion of the Bedford St. M.E. Cem & Vaults, Carolee >> mentions Bedford being absorbed by another church, which you >could >> contact if you believe Mr. Perry lived near Duane Street: >> Metropolitan-Duane United Methodist Church >> 201 West 13th Street >> NY NY 10011-7795 >> 212-243-5740 >> >> Good luck with your search - Anne >> * * * * * * * * >> Anne W. Brown, Trustee >> New York Marble Cemetery >> www.marblecemetery.org >> usually open 4th Sundays in nice weather >> >> >> >>> Hi, I just got a copy of the death information for a relative and >the >>> column titled "Cemetery" it says "Methodist Episcopal". I did a >>> search online for a Methodist Episcopal Cemetery but couldn't >>> narrow >>> it down to NYC. There were other Methodist Episcopal >cemeteries >>> but >>> they were all over the place in other states. Was this an actual >>> name of the cemetery? Was this name changed either to or >from >>> Methodist Episcopal? The relative that I'm looking for is Robert >>> Perry who died 19 Feb 1832 in New York City. There's also >another >>> column next to Cemetery that is titled either "Section" or >"Sexton" >>> and that says "E. or C. Pope". Was that a name of a person or >the >>> section of the cemetery? >> >>> Thanks >>> Angela >>

Hi Anne, Some additional questions for you. In the 1830's, was it typical for people in NYC to be buried near (or the nearest) cemetery to their home? What's the benefit of knowing the sexton's name? I sent an email to both the Cypress Hills and Greenwood cemeteries. Hopefully they'll be able to tell me something. I will call the Metropolitan-Duane Methodist church tomorrow. Thanks Angela On Jun 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Anne W. Brown wrote: > Dear Angela, > > Franklin Street is only three blocks north of Duane, so I would > definitely concentrate on that area. Anne > > ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- > From: "Angela Munro" <basenjigirl@gmail.com> > To: awb@chesapeake.net > Received: 6/27/2010 9:47:36 AM > Subject: Re: NYC-ROOTS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 149 > > >> Thanks so much Anne! I will look into your suggestions. According >> to >> this death information, he lived on Franklin St at the time of his >> death. Any other suggestions? > >> Angela >> On Jun 27, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Anne W. Brown wrote: > >>> >>> Dear Angela, >>> >>> Carolee Inskeep's "Graveyard Shift" lists about a dozen Methodist >> >>> Episcopal churches and cemeteries on Manhatan, so it would be >> worth >>> your getting the book. Many didn't have their own burial grounds >>> and jointly used a cemetery - now long gone - that was in the >> block >>> between 1st, 2nd, !st Av , and 2nd Av. After the final earthen >>> burial ban in 1851, 15,000 M.E. burials were removed to Cypress >>> Hills on Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn. They came from both the 1st St. >>> cemetery and individual church yards, so you might want to try >>> Cypress Hills. >>> >>> The 1829 city directory lists three Popes: a grocer, a rigger, and >>> a carpenter. Concentrate on the carpenter, since he is Charles >>> Pope, 216 Duane St. Carpenters made coffins, of course, so >> being a >>> sexton was a fitting sideline. The 1833 Hooker and 1834 Burr >> maps >>> show a Methodist church on Duane between Hudson and >> Greenwich. If >>> the street numbers haven't changed much, that's right near #216. >>> >>> In her disussion of the Bedford St. M.E. Cem & Vaults, Carolee >>> mentions Bedford being absorbed by another church, which you >> could >>> contact if you believe Mr. Perry lived near Duane Street: >>> Metropolitan-Duane United Methodist Church >>> 201 West 13th Street >>> NY NY 10011-7795 >>> 212-243-5740 >>> >>> Good luck with your search - Anne >>> * * * * * * * * >>> Anne W. Brown, Trustee >>> New York Marble Cemetery >>> www.marblecemetery.org >>> usually open 4th Sundays in nice weather >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi, I just got a copy of the death information for a relative and >> the >>>> column titled "Cemetery" it says "Methodist Episcopal". I did a >>>> search online for a Methodist Episcopal Cemetery but couldn't >>>> narrow >>>> it down to NYC. There were other Methodist Episcopal >> cemeteries >>>> but >>>> they were all over the place in other states. Was this an actual >>>> name of the cemetery? Was this name changed either to or >> from >>>> Methodist Episcopal? The relative that I'm looking for is Robert >>>> Perry who died 19 Feb 1832 in New York City. There's also >> another >>>> column next to Cemetery that is titled either "Section" or >> "Sexton" >>>> and that says "E. or C. Pope". Was that a name of a person or >> the >>>> section of the cemetery? >>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Angela >>> >