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Ann Lee Home Cemetery

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Location	:	Colonie, Albany County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.7465520, -73.8157870
Description	:	Over 1,500 people were buried in the Ann Lee Home Cemetery by Albany County between 1926 and 1946, at which point Albany County abandoned the cemetery. Some much older remains, possibly from a Native American burying ground, were also reinterred there. The exact location of the cemetery is supposedly unknown, other than it being to the west of the Albany County Airport. The Albany County Coroner's Office, Albany County Sheriff's Office, Albany County Correctional Facility, local undertakers, etc. ought to have records pertaining to its location, interments there, maintenance of the property prior to Albany County's abandonment of it,... Read More	Over 1,500 people were buried in the Ann Lee Home Cemetery by Albany County between 1926 and 1946, at which point Albany County abandoned the cemetery. Some much older remains, possibly from a Native American burying ground, were also reinterred there. The exact location of the cemetery is supposedly unknown, other than it being to the west of the Albany County Airport. The Albany County Coroner's Office, Albany County Sheriff's Office, Albany County Correctional Facility, local undertakers, etc. ought to have records pertaining to its location, interments there, maintenance of the property prior to Albany County's abandonment of it, etc. The Shaker Cemetery where leader Ann Lee (1736-1784) was reinterred from "what became one of the airport's runways" is also to the west of the airport. "'To my mind this is absolutely the saddest place in Albany County,' John McEneny, who is both assistant county executive and the county's historian, said of the unmarked potter's field. 'Some of them have names. A high percentage are unknown. They include suicides pulled out of the river. They include babies. This is the unclaimed dead of the city and county of Albany.' [...] "'The location is somewhat imprecise, and that was always a worry during construction of the hockey rink,' he said. 'It's overgrown. There's no marking, no tombstones.'" Schackner, Bill. "Hundreds of paupers buried in path of airport extension." Albany Times Union. June 23, 1991: A1. Henry Johnson (1897-1929) for a time was thought to have been buried in the Ann Lee Home Cemetery, but he proved to have been buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Schackner, Bill. "'Very Famous Person' Buried in Potters' Field." Albany Times Union. June 25, 1991: B1. Schackner, Bill. "Historian thinks black war hero is buried in potter's field." Albany Times Union. July 6, 1991: A1. "Discovery of a human skull under the porch of Mrs. Ada Miller's home at 56 Thornton, and disclosure it was the third skull found in the vicinity in some years, today presented the possibility an old Indian burial ground once existed in the district. "The skull under Mrs. Miller's porch was found by Roy Teal, Couse Corners, who was excavating for repair work. Dr. John J. Phelan, coroner's physician, said the skull had been buried for 'at least 50 years,' and was deteriorated so it was impossible to determine whether it was a man's or a woman's. "Coroner Ernest A. Hein, who closed the mystery by ordering the skull's remnants buried again—this time in Ann Lee Home Cemetery—couldn't get worked up about it. "It's just one of those things,' Hein said. 'How long do I think it had been there? Well, that's hard to tell. A long time, though. It crumpled to dust when Dr. Phelan touched it. That shows it was there a good many years. It might have been an Indian's.' "Mrs. Miller was similarly unexcited. Laughingly, she averred the business of digging up skulls is getting to be an old story in her neighborhood. 'They found one across the street and another one some distance away,' she said." "3d Skull Find In Albany, but City's Unexcited." Knickerbocker News [Albany, NY]. October 6, 1938: B2 col 4.

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