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Year: [1950]
Header: left page 31, right page 40
| Date | Undertaker | Interment | Time | Deceased | Certificate | Margin Notes | Cost | Plot | Lot/Range | Grave | Section | Transcriber Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. 23 | M.A. Daniels + Sons, Inc | No Box Interment | 1:30 p.m. | Joseph Jackson | 1551 Southern Blvd.- Bx. | 8843 | $25 p | 27 | 23 | H | ||
| Feb. 21 | Rodney Dade, Inc. | Baby Grave | 2 p.m. | Maurice Peters | 663 A Jamaica Bay Housing, Queens, Lnd | 8844 3 ft. | $12 paid 3/14/50 | 16 | 69 | H | ||
| Feb. 25 | M.A. Daniels + Son, Inc. | Boxed Interment | 11:30 a.m. | Joseph M. Hartell | 44 W. 127 St. | 8845 | $30 p | 28 | 35 | H | 8845 - Hartell, 8846-Rivers, 8848-Daniels share the same R,G, Sec numbers : R-28, G-35,Sec-H | |
| Feb. 25 | Harlem Funeral Home | Boxed Interment | 11 a.m. | Naomi Rivers | 2412 7th Avenue | 8846 | $30 p | 28 | 35 | H | 8846- rivers shares same R,G,Sec numbers as 8845-Rivers, 8848-Daniels | |
| Feb. 23 | George L. Jones | No Box Interment | 4:20 p.m. | Richard Turner | 44 W. 132 St. | 8847 | $25 p | 27 | 23 | H | ||
| Feb. 25 | Clinton Brooks | Boxed Interment | 3 p.m. | William Daniels | 2150 5th Ave. | 8848 | $30 p | 28 | 35 | H | 8848-Daniels shares the same R,G, Sec numbers as 8845-Hartell, 8846-Rivers | |
| Feb. 25 | Thomas A. Warner | Boxed Interment | 11:30 a.m. | Sarah Dowdy | 73 W. 99 St. | 8849 | $30 p | 29 | 54 | H | 8849-Dowdy, shares the same R,G, Sec numbers as 8850-Wright, 8851-Byfield, 8852-Stanford, 8853-Robinson | |
| Feb. 28 | McDavid T. Ellison | Boxed Interment | 11:30 a.m. | Sarah Wright | 2196 5th Ave. | 8850 | $30 p | 29 | 54 | H | 8850-Wright shares the same R, G, Sec numbers as 8849-Dowdy, 8851-Byfield, 8852- Stanford, 8853 R-Robinson | |
| Feb. 27 | George L. Jones | Boxed Interment | a.m. | Mary Byfield | 48 W. 140 St. | 8851 | $30 p | 29 | 54 | H | no time entered on ledger. | |
| Feb. 27 | George L. Jones | Boxed Interment | 2:30 p.m. | Nehola Stanford | 458 W. 142 St. | 8852 | $30 p | 29 | 54 | H | 8851-Byfield shares the same R, G, Sec numbers as 8849,8850,8852,8853 | |
| Feb. 28 | George S. Fulchen | Boxed Interment | 11:30 a.m. | Isabelle Robinson | 149 W.131 St. | 8853 | $30 p | 29 | 54 | H | 8852- Stanford shares the same R, G, Sec info as 8849,8850,8851,8853 | |
| Mar. 2 | Clinton Brooks | Boxed Interment | 11:30 a.m. | Rebecca Coles | 52 E. 132 St | 8854 | $30 p | 26 | 15 | H | 88544-Coles shares the same R, G, Sec info as 8855-Whites, 8857-Hawkins. 8858 Japthah : R-26, G-15, Sec-H | |
| Mar. 3 | Lafayette Rogers | Boxed Interment | 11:33 | Roxie Whites | 8855 | $30 p | 26 | 15 | H | time of day (a.m. or p.m.) for service not in ledger no address for Whites written in ledger | ||
| Mar. 4 | St. Helena funeral Home | Re-opening | Willaim Hardy | 458 Grand Concourse- Bx. | 8856, 2nd Int., (83) Cer: Willaim Hardy 458 Concourse -Bx | $35 p | 40 | 4 | E | no time of int. entered on ledger | ||
| Mar. 4 | Geo L. Jones | Boxed Interment | 11 a.m. | John Hawkins | 472 Lenox Ave. | 8857 | $30 | 26 | 15 | H | no note of payment on ledgerfor $30 | |
| Mar.4 | Thomas A. Warner | Morgue Box | 11 a.m. | Adlai Japthah | 16 W. 131 | 8858 | $20 p | 26 | 15 | H | 8858-Japthah shares same R,G,Sec info as 8854, 8855, 8857 : R-26, G-15, Sec-H | |
| Mar. 7 | Effie Miller | Re-opening | 11:30 a.m. | Harry Watkins | 1410 5th Ave. | 8859, 2nd Int., (790) Cer: Williebell Watkins - same | $35 p | 28 | 25 | E |
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Cholera swept through New York in 1832, 1849, and 1866, killing thousands of New Yorkers, and infecting thousands more. During Cholera years, mortality rates soared almost double of those of the beginning of the century, killing more than 50 per 1,000 people or approx. 1 in 20. As the city progressed, threats of Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid Fever and Dysentery increased as the century moved forward. Typhus and other diseases became epidemics in the city's slums and tenements. Deaths attributed to Small Pox also increased around mid-century. Legislation allowed public health officials to practice vaccination on a large scale.
*Columbia Climate School- State of the Planet, Richard Plunz and Andre Alvarez-Davila, June 30, 2020
I was interested in knowing why there would be multiple listings in some burial plots of deceased New York residents. Was it possible that more than one body could be interned in a single grave if a cemetery doesn't have room.
I found this article from June 26, 2020, published during the Covid pandemic : TIME (Magazine online) New York City has a mass graveyard on Hart's Island, where in a 10 foot deep hole, 3 caskets high, 2 caskets wide, football field sized pit lie 1,165 identical pine caskets, identified with bored in numbers on their box. New York City has owned and operated this mass grave site- the largest in the country since 1869. Over a century and a half, more than a million people have been buried in unmarked graves there, including those that died from past pandemics. Persons buried there include thousands that died from Covid-19.
So it is likely that persons at that time were buried more than one to a grave, seeing that New York and surrounding Boroughs were going through several pandemics during the mid 1800's.
*Carrie Engel/New York
That's an interesting observation, thank you for sharing!
Hi Cheyenne, I realized as I researched a little further, that the Frederick Douglas Memorial Park was established in 1933 Depression Era , a while after these pandemics swept through New York.