Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
41°40′59″N 73°55′55″W / 41.68317°N 73.93200°WThe Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and includes the gravesites of several notable figures.[1] The forty-four acres of land used for the cemetery were purchased by Matthew Vassar.[2] Some of its architectural features were designed by J. A. Wood. His work includes the Frost mausoleum, the cemetery gates and gatehouse, and a monument for Matthew Vassar's nephew, John Guy Vassar.[3]
Notable burials
- Theodorus Bailey, politician
- Stephen Baker, politician
- Harvey G. Eastman, educator and politician
- James Emott, politician
- Margaret Hamilton (cremated), played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Her ashes were scattered at her estate in Amenia.
- Charles Johnston, politician
- John J. Kindred, politician
- Henry A. Livingston, politician
- Samuel Neilson, Irish nationalist
- Homer Augustus Nelson, politician
- Edmund Platt, politician
- Charles H. Ruggles, politician
- Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, politician
- James Fields Smathers, inventor
- William Wallace Smith I and Andrew Smith of Smith Brothers
- John Thompson, politician
- Matthew Vassar, brewer, merchant, founder of Vassar College
References
- ^ History of Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery official site
- ^ Joyce C. Ghee, Joan Spence Poughkeepsie: Halfway Up the Hudson page 95
- ^ Virginia A. Buechele [1] The Frost Mausoleum; "The largest blue stone ever landed here" August 2006. Friends of Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery Newsletter.