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From a New York Cemetery
One of the oldest churches in New York city is the Fordham Manor Reformed church in Kingsbridge road, established in 1656. In the rear of the present edifice is a neglected corner plot, overgrown with weeds, where a few tombstones, some badly broken, still remain. The inscriptions on these neglected gravestones are as follows:
Elisha Webb, died April 9, 1843, aged 42 years.
Ann Webb, wife of Elisha, died July 1, 1864, aged 64 years.
Henry Arnouth, died March 23, 1860, aged 57 years, 5 months.
Sarah Bussev, born October 5, 1792, died April 21, 1870.
Cornelius B., son of Cornelius and Anab Archer, died October 7, 1851, aged 1 year, 11 months.
Catherine Horton, wife of Benjamin Horton, died July 9, 1853, aged 24 years, 7 days.
Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Catherine Horton, died July 1, 1853, aged 1 day.
Daniel M., son of Benjamin and Catherine Horton, died September 6, 1852, aged three months.
Harriet Louisa, wife of James Williams, died April 10, 1854, aged 36 years, 21 days.
Eliza, wife of Isaac Corse, died February 19, 1850, aged 64 years, 6 months, 7 days.
Stephen, son of David and Mary Walker, died February 20, 1853, aged 3 years.
Martha Chamberlain, died November 25, 1856, in her 87th year
John Clay Stamp, a native of Arnold, England, died February 17, 1866, aged 21 years.
Mary Ann, wife of Benjamin Moseley, a native of Nottingham, England, died July 13, 1868, aged 62 years.
Margaret Maria Fortune, a native of Scotland, died May 5, 1863, aged 36.
Phoebe Woode, relict of Anthony Woode, died March 4, 1853, aged 87 years, 8 months, 7 days.
Hannah Woode, died December 10, 1851, aged 57 years, 3 months, 16 days.
John Cromwell, died February 14, 1864, aged 67 years, 1 month, 10 days.
Rebecca Hyatt, wife of John Cromwell, born January 13, 1803, died February 26, 1884.
George Hyatt Cromwell, eldest son of John and Rebecca, died October 12, 1856, aged 30 years.
Robert Hyatt Cromwell, son of John and Rebecca, died March 31, 1850, aged 21 years, 9 mos., 16 days.
SOURCE: Vol, II, No 17, October 26, 1912 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry
SOURCE: Vol, II, No 7, August 17, 1912 Genealogy: a journal of American ancestry
