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    Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/Greenwood...
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  • Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally...
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    inspired dozens of other rural cemeteries across the U.S. such as Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Many were accompanied...
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  • Jean-Michel Basquiat (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    was pronounced dead on arrival. Basquiat is buried at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. A private funeral was held at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on...
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  • Do-Hum-Me (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    at the same time she died, and a number of them also passed away. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn donated a burial plot, and she was interred by her father...
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    considering locations in the Bronx and portions of the then-new Green-Wood Cemetery, in 1842 Trinity Parish purchased the plot of land now bordered by...
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    Charles Pfizer (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    broke an arm and was further injured. He was buried at New York's Green-Wood Cemetery. German-American Business Biographies. E-knihy jedou. 2001. p. 348...
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    Civic Virtue (category Cemetery art)
    Borough Hall in Queens, and the sculpture group is now located in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The marble fountain was commissioned in 1909 by Mayor...
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    Trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator (B)(D) Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus Wood duck, Aix sponsa (B) Garganey, Spatula querquedula (N) Blue-winged teal,...
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    James Merritt Ives (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    firm until his death in Rye, New York, in 1895. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. After Ives's death, his sons and Currier's sons continued...
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  • arrows, the painting invokes death with the drawing of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, where Basquiat would be laid to rest in 1988. Basquiat, whose mother...
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    Charles Henry Stanley (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    at the Home for Incurables on October 6, 1901, and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery. Hooper, David; Whyld, Ken (1987). The Oxford Companion to Chess...
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    the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and...
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    William Holbrook Beard (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    Henry Beard (1814–1893), was also a painter. William is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Beard, William Holbrook ~ Phantom Crane, 1891...
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  • Frances Esemplare (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    died on December 9, 2017, at the age 83. Esemplare was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, on December 13, 2017. "Frances Esemplare obituary"...
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    Gate Screen (1860s) and the Pierrepont family tomb (c. 1860) in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York St. Mark's Cathedral in Salt Lake City, Utah...
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    Dorothy Catherine Draper (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    Hastings-on-Hudson, New York and was buried with her brother and sister-in-law in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. She never married. Portrait of Dorothy Catherine...
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    died May 17, 1912, at Laurel Run, Pennsylvania. He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Rank and organization: Captain, Company D, 12th...
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    Laura Keene (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    tuberculosis at the age of 47 at Montclair, New Jersey. She is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. In 2007, Our Leading Lady, a play by Charles Busch about...
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  • Paul Schmidt (translator) (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    Review of Books. He was married to Stockard Channing. He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Night Life, Painted Leaf Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9651558-0-9...
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    William M. Tweed (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    April 12, 1878, from severe pneumonia, and was buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. Mayor Smith Ely Jr. would not allow the flag at City Hall to be...
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    Caroline Weldon (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    sparked by a candle. She was interred at the Valentiny family plot at Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. The poet and playwright Derek Walcott refers...
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    Asher Brown Durand (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    30 to July 29, 2007. Durand is interred in Brooklyn, New York, in Green-Wood Cemetery. 1823 Declaration of Independence (engraving) 1835 Portrait of Luman...
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  • the Church of the Intercession in Manhattan and the catacombs of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Death of Classical was founded by Andrew Ousley, a music...
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    Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    granddaughter, had been born two days earlier. Mittie is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery located in Brooklyn, New York. In his autobiography published in...
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    also found a home in Brooklyn, and Queens, New York, notably in Green-Wood Cemetery, with some speculating they were accidentally released at John F...
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  • Richard Isay (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. On June 14, 2014, Isay was featured in the first gay themed tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. Since 2014...
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    Auburn Cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and was itself an inspiration to cemetery designers, most notably at Green-Wood Cemetery in...
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    Jim Creighton (category Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery)
    his 2015 book Playing First: Early Baseball Lives at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, which includes a chapter on Creighton and his extended family, referred...
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