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Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Catholic burial site. Among its famous residents is baseball player Babe Ruth , whose grave has an epitaph by Cardinal Francis Spellman and is almost always adorned by ...
Saint Petroc (c. 468 – c. 564), a patron saint of Cornwall [95] John Arthur Phillips (1822–1887), geologist, metallurgist, mining engineer [96] Rosamunde Pilcher (1924–2019), novelist [97] Saint Piran (or Perran), patron saint of Cornwall and of tin miners [98] Sam Pollard (1864–1915), Methodist missionary and creator of the Miao script
Coal-carrying canal historic district that runs through other counties in New York and Pennsylvania as well. Key link in supplying New York City with anthracite coal in the 19th century. 50: Denniston–Steidle House: Denniston–Steidle House: May 8, 2012 : 575 Jackson Ave.
One may also see some century-old mischief, as children's pen-knives have left such marks as “GTC: 1877.” The cemetery, located to the northwest of the meeting house, contains graves dating to 1799. Not all of the 771 entombed are Quakers, as the cemetery was not restricted to congregants and it was the only one in Cornwall at the time.
(Location of grave not known. Presumed buried in First Dutch Churchyard. Remains there later relocated to Vale. Not all gravestones transported, so exact burial site not known.) Oswald D. Heck – elected to the New York State Assembly in 1937. Speaker of the house from 1939–1959. There is a gavel on his tombstone.
John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City; John Bassett Moore; George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor; Paul Morton; Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City; Bernarr McFadden Founder of the Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, NY, McFadden Publications
Buried within the churchyard is the British stage and film actor Eric Portman (1901 – 1969) who lived in Penpoll Cottage, St Veep. [4] Also Captain Robert Edwin Phillips VC (11 April 1895 – 23 September 1968) of the 13th Battalion, The Warwickshire Regiment who was awarded the Victoria Cross for an action at the River Hai, Kut-el-Amara ...
People from Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York (17 P) Pages in category "People from Cornwall, New York" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.