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Title: Guide ... Greenwood as it is
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: (Richardson, Louisa) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. (from old catalog)
Publisher: (New York, F. Richardson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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large and massive, but plain granite col-umn erected over Col. Abram Jabaske, whoselettering tells us, fell in duty to his countrv,at the battle of Daways Bluff, Virginia, May16th, 18G4, will be found on Chapel Avenue. Here also is the tomb of the DeGrauws, thoDrapers, Phelps, Medins, and also the familyvault of Valentine C. Hall, once Mayor ofBrooklyn. On Myrtle Hill, facing Myrtle Path, off Cen-tral Avenue, is the magnificent burial pl^t ofthe Griswold family. On Lake Avenue and Ravine Path is the plotof H. B. Claflin, the dry goods merchant. On the plateau facing Border Avenue, willbe found the plot with the graves of the NewYork Volunteers. This is truly an appropriatespot to lay our heroic dead. Here let :hemsleep sweetly until the last bugle sounds. Near here we find on Meadow and AtlanticAvenues, the hill of graves, which is fur ili-purpose of single interments, and beautifullykept by loving and lonely hearts in memory oftheir loved ones who sleep alone in this hal-lowed spot.
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i .^lOllJsli TOMB. Lay him low—lay him low, In the clover or the snow, What cares he, he cannot know, • Lay him low. Among- the plethora and costly mausoleums inGreenwood, and one much sought after by thevisitor, is the Stephen Whitney Chapel^ situated onOcean I Fill, facing Atlantic Avenue. It is verybeautiful, being built in the form of an Englishchurch, of dark graj granite, and stands on thehighest point of a hill, from which a splendidview of the cemetery can be had. Its simplicity,as well as grandeur, is so blended that one for-gets the latter, and it is one of the few places inthe grounds that one can look upon with a feelingof absolute rest. (See cut.) Situated on Battle Avenue at the base ofBattle Hill, stands one of the most elegaD,vaults In the grounds, and is the resting placeof the dead of T. C. Durants family. Mr.Durant was at one time Vice-Prasldent andGeneral Manager of the Union Pacific Rail-road. The roof of the vault is of yellow glarsand at certain times of the

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