THE FORGOTTEN OF ELLIS ISLAND
Deaths in Quarantine, 1909-1911

 

Some Cemeteries Located in the New York City Area

|Cemetery Addresses|   |Short Bibliography|

The following are the addresses for the cemeteries shown on the death certificates of the more than 400 people identified in the listings of deaths in Quarantine. For information about these cemeteries as well as all the cemeteries throughout the New York City metropolitan area, see the book entitled "The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries" which is listed in the bibliography below.

Calvary Cemetery

49-02 Laurel Hill Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11377-7396
Phone: (718) 786-8000
 

Evergreen Cemetery

Cemetery of the Evergreens
1629 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11207-1849
Phone: (718) 455-5300
 

Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, NY

There are several cemeteries in the New York area contain the word "Trinity". However, as I did not find one with a Brooklyn address, the addresses of all those cemeteries found are listed below. You will probably want to view the death certificate to see if I overlooked any clues and then contact each of the following cemeteries in turn.
 

Trinity Chapel Cemetery c/o Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island (F.A.C.S.I.) 115 Lathrop Avenue Staten Island, NY 10314	Trinity Cemetery 700 Riverside Drive New York NY 10032-7535 Phone: 212-368-1600
Trinity Churchyard 74 Trinity Place, Floor 22 New York NY 10006-2003 Phone: 212-285-0836	Trinity Lutheran Churchyard c/o Saint Matthew's Lutheran Church 200 Sherman Avenue New York NY 10034-3301 Phone: 212-567-2172

 

Mount Olivet Cemetery

65-40 Grand Avenue
Flushing, NY 11378-2423
Phone: 718-326-1777
Website: http://www.mountolivetcemeterynyc.com/
Cemetery Map in PDF format

Moravia Cemetery

2205 Richmond Road
Staten Island, NY 10306-2557
Phone: 718-351-0136
 

Ocean View Cemetery, Section M.R.

P.O. Box 116
Staten Island, NY 10307-0116
Phone: 718-351-1870
 

St. Michael's Cemetery

72-02 Astoria Boulevard
Flushing, NY 11370-1094
Phone: 718-278-3240
NOTE: This is also a common name of cemeteries and there is one more in New York county and one in Richmond county.
 

Monbzim (?) Cemetery

Although it was difficult reading the handwriting on the death certificate containing this cemetery's name, it may be the following cemetery:
Mokom Sholom Cemetery
80-07 Pirkin Avenue
Jamaica, NY 11407-1228
Phone: 718-845-6030
 

St. Mary's Cemetery

Sprain Road
Yonkers, NY 10701
Phone: 914-965-4890
NOTE: This is also a common name of cemeteries and there are two more in Richmond county and one in Queens county.
 

St. Peter's Cemetery

52 Tyler Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10310-3172
Phone: 718-442-2363
 

Washington Cemetery

5400 Bay Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11230-3346
Phone: 718-377-8690
 

Woodland Cemetery

982 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, NY 10301-3703
Phone: 718-727-0222
 
Email: [email protected]

A Short Bibliography

Ardolina, Rosemary Muscarella. Old Calvary Cemetery: New Yorkers Carved in Stone. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1996.

Inskeep, Carolee. "The Graveyard Shift: A Family Historian's Guide to New York City Cemeteries". Orem, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 2000. [Note: This book contains a lengthy bibliography of periodicals, published articles and books relating to New York City area cemeteries.]