List of burials at Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery.

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  • Steven C. Vincent (1955–2005), American journalist and author kidnapped and murdered in Iraq in August 2005
  • Ned Vizzini (1981–2013), American author
  • Leopold von Gilsa (1824–1870), American Civil War colonel and brigade commander

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References

  1. ↑ Only Åhr's gravestone is present. Åhr themselves is not buried in Greewood.
  2. ↑ James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. "Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary", p. 345, Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-674-62734-2. Accessed June 28, 2009.
  3. ↑ Schweber, Nate (October 18, 2012). "Recalling a New Pitch and a Strange Death". The New York Times.
  4. ↑ Mulligan, Thomas S. (August 3, 2003). "Slain New York City Councilman Reburied; Reinterment occurred after family learned his killer's ashes were in the same cemetery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 19, 2009. 'If she had known that Askew's cremated remains were at Green-Wood, she never would have agreed to have her son buried there,' Hill said.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ↑ "Death of Justice Dayton". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 7, 1910. p. 3. Retrieved January 17, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  6. ↑ "James H. Fuertes". The Brooklyn Daily Times. February 9, 1932. p. 6A. Retrieved May 31, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.Open access icon
  7. ↑ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. p. 282.
  8. ↑ Ellen Tarry, "Grace Nail Johnson: A Remembrance," The Crisis (March 1977): 120-121.
  9. ↑ Pop Smoke to be laid to rest in Brooklyn as suspects in his murder ‘still at large’
  10. ↑ "Gen. McGrath Dies In 82d Year". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn, New York. May 7, 1922. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Final Tributes To Montague. Thousands Of Friends Attend His Funeral Services". The New York Times. August 22, 1878. The mortal remains of Henry J. Montague were laid to rest yesterday within the quiet precincts of Green-Wood Cemetery....
  12. ↑ Bellafante, Ginia (April 18, 2018). "Statue of Doctor Who Did Slave Experiments Is Exiled. Its Ideas Are Not". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 28, 2019.
  13. ↑ Tripp, Wendell E. (1982). Robert Troup: A Quest for Security in a Turbulent New Nation. Ayer Publishing. p. 322. ISBN 0-405-14074-6. Retrieved February 2, 2008.
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