Thanks to everyone! Yes I have searched high and low for Robert Perry via findagrave.com and interment.net. Nothing. When I got the death certificate, I was excited to find the cemetery name but no luck so far. I will check out that book as well as the link you all gave me. Angela On Jun 27, 2010, at 1:00 AM, nyc-roots-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? (Angela Munro) > 2. Re: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? (ADELKEN@aol.com) > 3. Re: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? (Bobbi) > 4. Re: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? (Bud Jamison) > 5. Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? (Soyamaven@aol.com) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:52:25 -0600 > From: Angela Munro <basenjigirl@gmail.com> > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > To: NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <F7B5A157-BA82-45DB-AACF-3EC520749C9A@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > 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 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:25:27 EDT > From: ADELKEN@aol.com > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > To: nyc-roots@rootsweb.com, NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <66c22.764f5fb5.3957f477@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Have you tried Findagrave.com yet? It has a search feature that > might show > the cemetery or the person you are seeking. > > > In a message dated 6/26/2010 7:52:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > basenjigirl@gmail.com writes: > > 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 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:27:59 -0400 > From: Bobbi <bobbidoll@optonline.net> > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > To: nyc-roots@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <7C44C90B86E5494A903A7BC4655A49FF@BobbiPC> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; > reply-type=original > > Hi Angela, > >> From the date you gave burials were still allowed in NYC. > > A law was passed (I think about 1850) that no longer allowed burials > in > lower Manhattan. That is when Queens became the "cemetery place." > Many > graves were dug up and reinterred out of the city in order to free up > valuable land. > > There is a book you might want to try to locate. It is called "The > Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City > Cemeteries" by > Carolee Inskeep. Possibly you can get it on Inter-Library Loan. > > Bobbi > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Angela Munro" > To: <NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:52 PM > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > > >> 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:50:20 -0700 > From: Bud Jamison <budscan@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > To: <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <AFE43049ED7E4FEFAA12DA1745F8CA87@MegaKat> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bobbi" <bobbidoll@optonline.net> > To: <nyc-roots@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:27 PM > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Angela Munro" >> To: <NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:52 PM >> Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? >> >> >>> 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. > > A quick search on the Net shows a "Methodist Episcopal Cemetery" > in Ridgewood Queens, and another in Flushing Queens. > > Maybe you can find more here.. > > http://longislandgenealogy.com/LIGRecords.html#QueensCounty > > There is also a Hauppauge Methodist Episcopal on Long Island. > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:07:14 EDT > From: Soyamaven@aol.com > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Methodist Episcopal Cemetery? > To: NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <6d6ae.68ce970.39583682@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Hi Angela Munro, > > Many of those reinterred from cemeteries in New York City (then > included > only the Island of Manhattan and a few small islands in the East > River) were > taken to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. > > > I hope this information is useful or, at least, interesting. > > Regards, > > Walter Greenspan > Great Falls, MT & Jericho, NY > </HTML> > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the NYC-ROOTS list administrator, send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the NYC-ROOTS mailing list, send an email to NYC-ROOTS@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of NYC-ROOTS Digest, Vol 5, Issue 149 > *****************************************