Genealogy Projects tagged with Westchester County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • New York Medical College

    Wikipedia =New York Medical College (NYMC or New York Med) is a private biomedical health sciences university based in Valhalla, New York. Founded in 1860, it is a member of the Touro College and University System.NYMC offers advanced degrees through its three schools: the School of Medicine (SOM), the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences (GSBMS) and the School of Health Sciences and Pract...

  • South Salem Cemetery, South Salem, New York

    This project is for those buried in South Salem Cemetery, South Salem, Westchester County, New York. Find a Grave

  • Greenwood Union Cemetery, Rye, New York

    Greenwood Union Cemetery is located approximately 30 miles north of New York City, and a few miles from the Connecticut border. The cemetery occupies 54 acres of which approximately 35 acres are in the City of Rye and 19 in the Town of Harrison. It is a non-sectarian, non-profit corporation formed under the Rural Cemetery Act of 1847. The burial ground originally known as the Union Cemetery of...

  • Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York

    Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately 25 miles north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave. in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, as a Roman 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 many baseballs, bats and caps. Adjacent to the Garden M...

  • Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York

    Ferncliff Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery organized as a corporation on February 26, 1902. It's earliest burial on records is that of John Witt on Sep 2, 1902. Ferncliff is home to several famous people including Malcolm X, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, Oscar Hammerstein, Thelonious Monk, Ed Sullivan, among others. Ferncliff Cemetery is home to three mausoleums: " Ferncliff Mausoleum", aka...

  • Sarah Lawrence College

    Sarah Lawrence College Wikipedia _______ Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, 15 miles north of Manhattan. The college is known for its rigorous academic standards, low student-to-faculty ratio, and highly individualized course of study. The school models its approach to...

  • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

    Hollow Cemetery=Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, it posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on the Nati...

  • Hillside Cemetery - Cortlandt Manor, NY

    Hillside Cemetery is located in what was referred to as Peekskill, but was actually the Town of Cortlandt. It is now known as Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York on Oregon Road, right next to the Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery (St. Peter's). [The cemetery is a] large rolling hill with multiple sections, encompassing Old St Peters Church Yard, abutting Old Van Cortlandtvill Cemetery o...

  • Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery, Van Cortlandtville, Westchester County, New York

    Old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery resides in Van Cortlandtville, Westchester County, New York. Also known as Old VanCortlandtville Cemetery and Saint Peters Cemetery, this historic cemetery's earliest burials date from the 1730s. The cemetery is active. "This cemetery is located at the intersection of Locust Ave and Oregon Road in Cortlandt Manor. There are several historic roadside markers arou...

  • Long Island University

    Wikipedia =Long Island University (LIU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online. The university offers more than 500 academic programs at two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, as well as non-residential programs at LIU Brentwood, LIU Riverhead, and LIU Hudson at Ro...

  • Peck Cemetery,Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA

    Peck Cemetery, Bedford, Westchester County, New York, USA: Find a Grave Hook Road (sect 12 Lot 8) 3 graves marked with field stones. Oldest stone - Deborah Peck wife of Robert, last stone Deborah Wescott wife of Stephen. 1st Surname Index 5/14/2021

  • Yonkers, New York

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Yonkers, New York. Official Website Yonkers is an inner suburb of New York City and is directly north of The Bronx and about two miles north of the northernmost tip of Manhattan . Yonkers is known as the "City of Seven Hills" which includes Park Hill, Nodine Hill, Ridge Hill, Cross Hill, Locust Hill, Glen Hill, and Church Hill. 1...

  • Sing Sing

    Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York. It is about 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City on the east bank of the Hudson River. It holds about 1,700 inmates and housed the execution chamber for the State of New ...

  • College of New Rochelle

    Wikipedia =The College of New Rochelle (CNR) was a private Catholic college with its main campus in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded as the College of St. Angela by the Ursuline Order as the first Catholic women's college in New York State in 1904, when women were generally excluded from higher education. The name was changed to The College of New Rochelle in 1910. The college was compose...

  • Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York

    This project is for those interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York.Mount Pleasant Cemetery has been serving the Jewish residents of Westchester County, NY since 1899. One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the area, it contains dozens of acres filled with historic memorials, statues, markers and headstones.Located north of New York City and Mount Vernon, Moun...

  • Irvington, New York

    Irvington , also known as Irvington-on-Hudson , is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County , New York , United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, 20 miles north of midtown Manhattan in New York City.==Early settlers==* Capt. John Buckhout * Justus Dearman * William Dutcher * Jacob van Tassel* Wolfert Acker == Notable residents ==* Madam C. J. Walker...