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Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery

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Phone
  
+1 845-454-6020

Address
  
342 South Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–12PMSaturday9AM–12PMSundayClosedMonday9AM–4:30PMTuesday9AM–4:30PMWednesday9AM–4:30PMThursday9AM–4:30PMFriday9AM–4:30PMSuggest an edit

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Poughkeepsie rural cemetery 1935


The Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and includes the gravesites of several notable figures. The forty-four acres of land used for the cemetery were purchased by Matthew Vassar. 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.

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Notable burials

  • Theodorus Bailey, politician
  • Stephen Baker, politician
  • Harvey G. Eastman, educator and politician
  • James Emott, politician
  • Prof Allan McLane Hamilton, psychiatrist
  • 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
  • Adolf Schatz, German Entrepreneur
  • 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

    Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery Wikipedia