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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Transcribed inscriptions of 36 people in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn

Transcription only — inscriptions transcribed from the headstones; no photographs in this record.

Established in 1838, Green Wood Cemetery is one of the world's most beautiful cemeteries and is the final resting place of nearly 600,000 persons, including some of America's most memorable figures. Located about 2 1/2 miles from the Brooklyn Bridge, Green Wood Cemetery is 478 acres and stretches from 20th to 36th Street on Fifth Avenue. The page also shows an antique engraved view of Green Wood Cemetery titled "Lawn-Girt Hill," engraved by Robert Hinshelwood from an original work by James Smillie, published in an American literary and art journal in 1855. The page lists notable burials only (not a transcription of stones).

Inscription transcription

Some of the most interesting people in Green wood Cemetery are...

I believe the address for Green Wood Cemetery is,

The Green-Wood Cemetery

500 - 25th Street

Brooklyn, New York 11232-1317

Phone: 718-768-7300

Indexed names

Transcribed names
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Anastasia, Albert(name only)
Beecher, Henry Ward(name only)
Bergh, Henry(name only)
Bernstein, Leonard(name only)
Blatchford, Samuel(name only)
Clinton, DeWitt(name only)
Cooper, Peter(name only)
Currier, Nathaniel(name only)
Ebbets, Charles(name only)
Feltman, Charles(name only)
Gallo, Joey(name only)
Greeley, Horace(name only)
Halleck, HenryGeneral Henry Halleck
Hastings, Thomas(name only)
Hinshelwood, Robertengraver of the 1855 view of Green-Wood Cemetery titled "Lawn-Girt Hill" (not a burial)This is a antique engraved view of Green wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York titled "Lawn-Girt Hill." It shows a view of this beautiful old cemetery in New York. This charming scene was engraved by Robert Hinshelwood from an original work by James Smillie. This was published in an American literary and art journal in 1855.
Smillie, Jamesartist of the original work engraved for the 1855 view (not a burial)
Howe, Elias(name only)
Hunt, Walter(name only)
Ives, James M.(name only)
Keene, Laura(name only)
Livingston, Brockholst(name only)
Livingston, William(name only)
Lorillard, Pierre(name only)
Morgan, Frank(name only)
Morse, Samuel F.B.(name only)
Paulding, James Kirke(name only)
Reid, Samuel(name only)
Roosevelt, Alice(name only)
Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch(name only)
Roosevelt, Robert(name only)
Roosevelt, TheodoreTheodore Roosevelt Sr
Sankey, Ira(name only)
Schwarz, F.A.O.(name only)
Steinway, Henry(name only)
Steinway, William(name only)
Tiffany, Louis Comfort(name only)
Torrio, Johnny(name only)
Wupperman, Frank Morgan(name only)

Inscriptions transcribed by the original Ancestors at Rest contributor. Individual names were extracted into the searchable index below; the verbatim inscription is shown alongside each.

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Matched automatically from the archive’s name and place indexes — research leads, not confirmed relations.

Attribution

Headstone inscription transcription preserved from the Ancestors at Rest archive; the original contributor is not recorded. If you transcribed this cemetery, please contact us so credit can be restored.

Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.

Source & Citation

Transcribed headstone inscriptions of Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. 36 names preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Last verified: 2026-06-10

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