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Dutch Church Cemetery

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Location	:	Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.7190510, -73.9292720
Description	:	The cemetery map location is approximate. PLEASE DO NOT ADD NAMES TO THIS CEMETERY. It was moved to Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in 1955 and called North Road Cemetery on the stone and is not an active cemetery. This listing is for reference only of the people who were buried here, and is transcribed from the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle. Thank You. Only the stones were moved and the bodies were left at site. According to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle 480 headstones survived with 510 names. I have now upgraded all the names and dates from "Old Gravestones Of Dutchess County"... Read More	The cemetery map location is approximate. PLEASE DO NOT ADD NAMES TO THIS CEMETERY. It was moved to Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in 1955 and called North Road Cemetery on the stone and is not an active cemetery. This listing is for reference only of the people who were buried here, and is transcribed from the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle. Thank You. Only the stones were moved and the bodies were left at site. According to the Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle 480 headstones survived with 510 names. I have now upgraded all the names and dates from "Old Gravestones Of Dutchess County" written by J. Wilson Poucher, M.D. and Helen Wilkinson Reynolds. This book lists many defunct cemeteries in New York and is invaluable for genealogists. Published in 1924, however it is most likely hard to find in good condition, and my local library's copy is quite fragile. Wednesday, January 24, 1912 DUTCH CHURCH CEMETERY NAMES AND INSCRIPTIONS A Full List of Names on the Stones Remaining in the Old Cemetery North of City near Mr. Wilbur's Hillcrest. On the east side of Hyde Park Road, just north of this city, is a burial ground belonging to the Dutch Church. The land was acquired by the church a century ago, and inter- ments were made in it so late as the eighties, but for thirty years, it has not been used, has been entirely ne- glected, and by many is now alto- gether forgotten. At present it is densely overgrown with sumach bushes, poison ivy, blackberry vines, rank grasses and weeds; is scarred by woodchucks' burrows, and track- ed by trailing paths of boys and tramps; while many of the grave- stones are cracked, fallen and de- faced. The statement is said to have been made in the past that the right to care for and manage this cemetery lay with the plot-owners, and that the Dutch Church as a corporate body lacked the power to control it, which idea may have grown out of a confused tradition regarding the provisions of the deed for the prop- erty. The deed is recorded in the county clerk's office (Liber 21, page 413) and shows that, when the church desired to open a new bury ing ground in 1810, three of its members advanced the money to pay for it, they being reimbursed later through the sale of plots. These three men were appointed to lay out the land as a cemetery, but there their duties and connection ended. In the sale of the plots the only right conferred upon the purchasers was that of making interments, the title to the whole tract being vested in the church. In 1916 the Dutch Church of Poughkeepsie will be two hundred years old, and its members look back upon its long life with pride. How could the church of to-day more fully honor itself on this anniversary then by honoring this resting place of its former members and restoring the same to a state of respectability? During November and December, 1911, Dr. J. Wilson Poucher and Miss Helen W. Reynolds have copied the inscriptions on the stones remaining in this yard, and the Magic publishes collections as a definite contribu- tion to the genealgical history of Poughkeepsie. the 480 stones bear the names of 510 individuals, and many families are represented which in their sev- eral days, have been prominent in the social, political, professional or business life of the place; such, for example, as the Tappens, Everetts, Blooms, Evertsons, Harrises, Oakleys, Innises, Roosevelts, Varicks, and Ad- riances, while sixteen former' mem- bers of the Consistory of the Dutch Church lie buried here, namely: Wines Manney, Abraham Pells, John Pells, David Carpenter, Henry Barnes, Robert Forrest, Evert A. Pells, William Bell, Michael T Hyz- er, John C. Van Valkenburgh, Dr. John Barnes, Herman J. Jewett, Ben- jamin Howland, George Bloom, Geo. Swan, Jacob Boerum. To this list of members of Con- sistory might be added the name of Dr. Peter Tappen (brother-in-law of Governor George Clinton) to whose memory a stone is standing, but as Dr. Tappen died in 1792, and this burying ground was opened in 1810, it is a question whether the stone marks the spot of where his body lies. In this instance, and in some others where stones bear dates prior to 1810, there may have been removals to the new ground from the Dutch burying ground on Main Street. That a number of removals were made from this yard on the Post Road to the Rural Cemetery, after the opening of the latter in 1854, is also undoubtedly the case. of the 510 names of individuals found in the following collection of inscriptions, 130 are those of child- ren under twelve years of age. Gene- alogically, the record of the children is valuable for supplying, as it does in the name of the parents. the heads of several households in Poughkeep- sie in various generations: it has further bearing, also, as a side-light on the hifh infant mortality then prevailing. The inscriptions on all the stones have been copied as carefully as pos- sible, but the action of wind and weather on porous sandstone has blurred and scaled so many that, if any inaccuracy is discovered allow- ance must be made for the difficulty experienced in the work. The stones in this cemetery were moved to Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in early 1955, and the property became part of St. Francis Hospital. I am going to transcribe the complete newspaper article here to complete this cemetery, even though the names are now in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery. Most of the stones have deteriorated and are unreadable, but I will try to add pictures for the ones that have survived. If you have an interest in a specific cemetery for me to include on Findagrave let me know and I will try to transcribe it here.

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Latitude: 41.7190510
Longitude: -73.9292720

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