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1858  AN  OLD  GRAVEYARD

Skeleton found on Site of "Freestone Graveyard"

1872  OLD  DUTCH  BURYING  GROUND

Dead Men's Bones Exhumed

1873  REVOLUTIONARY  MARTYRS

Removal of Their Remains to the Mausoleum in Washington Park.

Some Account of the Prison Ships Tortures Endured
On the Shores of Brooklyn Where They Have Rested for Ninety Years
Description of the New Receptacle and its Surrounding, &c., &c.

1874  DESECRATION

Premature Resurrection in the Cannon Street Baptist Cemetery, E. D.
         Ruthless and Forcible Removal of Remains

1875  THE  DEAD

Brooklyn Graves that Have Been Opened.

Some Account of Where Our Forefathers Were Buried
How Their Bodies Have Been Removed
Old Cemeteries Removed by Law
Quaint Epitaphs.

1878  HUMAN  REMAINS  EXHUMED.

The Bones of Three More Skeletons
Found in an Abandoned Cemetery.

1887  A  FORLORN  GRAVEYARD

How Methodists Neglected the Historic Sands Street Ground.

1888  TO  BE  EXHUMED

The Remains of Brooklynites of Early Days
Sands Street Graveyard to Yield to the Inevitable
Not the Last Resting Place of the Dead.

1888  SANDS STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Removing the Dead

1891  AN  OLD  BURYING  GROUND

A Relict of the Last Century in the Dutch Settlement of New Lots.

1891  POTATO  PLOTS

Between  the  Graves  in  St. John's  Cemetery.

1893  LONG  FORGOTTEN  DEAD

Many Neglected Graves in Cypress Hills Cemetery
The Methodist Episcopal Church Plot a Dreary Wilderness-
Bodies From Five Church Yards Lie There Unmarked

1897  FIGHTING  OVER  A CEMETERY

Trinity Methodist Church Trustees Appealing for Votes
In Trying to Dispose of Union Cemetery Property

1898  GRAVES  WITH  MANY  BODIES

Some Queer Things Revealed at Old Union Cemetery.

1900  THE OLD DUTCH CEMETERY IN EAST NEW YORK

A Landmark Which Has Almost Disappeared

1902  GRAVEYARD  FOR  A  PARK

Proposition to Remove Remains Interred in Pro-Cathedral Cemetery.

1906  WANT OLD BURIAL GROUND FOR PARK

UNION CEMETERY

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