REMOVING OF THE DEAD
Remains Taken from the Old Sands Street Churchyard. ____________________
A number of spectators stood this forenoon near the locked iron gate that that bars entrance to the old burial ground of The Sands Street M.E. Church, the visible part of which lies at the rear of the church proper, by the side of it's classroom building and at the rear of it's lecture room on High Street. A carriage and an undertaker's wagon were near the gate, and a small group of people were inside near a grave that was being opened. It was the first grave from which remains were being removed since the recent sale of the property. All that remained of Daniel WRIGHT and wife, buried in March 1828, and in May 1834, respectively, was being carefully gathered. A large neat casket box was brought into the yard. An impressive suggestion was afforded by the big box along side of the little one, less in size than a soap box, where the bones of the deceased were carefully laid. A piece of decayed wood of irregular shape about a foot long and five or six inches wide was the largest fragment left of the two coffins deposited there more than half a century ago. The rest were mere chips and grey dirt. The remains were carefully borne out of the yard. The tombstone was taken with them and all was conveyed to Greenwood Cemetery. Back to CEMETERY INDEX Back to CEMETERY INDEX Back to BROOKLYN Page Main