True. I have a number of ancestors buried there. Carol Yellott Ritchey Researching Van Horn, Yellott , Auchmoody , Lawrence, and Couvenhowen (Conover) Sent from my iPhone > On May 31, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Brian J Densmore via <nywestch@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > It's not just the rich or the rich and famous who are buried there. It's > certainly true they have big mausoleums, and fancy graves of rich, of > famous, and of rich and famous people. However, there are loads of just > plain ordinary people at every economic level buried there. Lots of them > without even a stone. Some where the stone has sunk into the ground and > disappeared under the turf. Don't ignore this major cemetery, if you have > exhausted all attempts to locate your ancestor's grave and come up blank, > this is a good place to look especially if your ancestor lived in southern > Westchester County, or the Bronx. > > >> Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NYC, is a 400 acre, non-sectarian cemetery that >> opened n 1863. >> In 2011 it was designated as a National Historic Landmark. Woodlawn has >> often been referred to >> as the "final resting place of the rich and famous. >> >> >> (The major Catholic cemetery in Bronx County NYC is ST. Raymond's Old and >> New.) >> >> >> >> >> Interested in Woodlawn? Check out this video .>>> >> >> >> http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/29/woodlawn-cemetery-where-the-rich-and-famous-spend-eternity/ >> >> Here's the Find A Grave aka FAG contributor-based index to burials at >> Woodlawn> >> http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=66788 >> >> >> >> >> Barb >> MizScarlettNY@aol.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> Browse or Search the Mailing List Archives of postings sent to this list >> over the years. Visit >> http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/westchester.html#NYWESTCH >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > Browse or Search the Mailing List Archives of postings sent to this list over the years. Visit > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/NY/westchester.html#NYWESTCH > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message