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From: "Diane Apel" <>
Subject: [IRL-CLARE-PROJECTS] Re-interrmen of Exhumed Immigrants
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:42:24 -0400

Genealogy community can help provide a dignified re-interrment of immigrants
exhumed from Staten Island Quarantine Cemetery, buried from 1799-1858.

Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island NY has sent a plea for
letters of support for the proper re-interrment of the immigrant remains
that were EXHUMED from a municipal parking lot once the site of the NYC
Quarantine Hospital/cemetery. This particular NYC Quarantine station
operated from 1799-1858. The immigrants who came to the USA during this
time as well as those with disease living in the NYC Metropolian area and
were ill (as many were) passed through the S.I. Quarantine Hosp and
ultimately many died and were buried at the cemetery now a MUNICIPAL PARKING
LOT.

These human remains were EXHUMED in 2006. They are now held at a facility
located in Brooklyn in storage boxes.

Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries has offered a large section of a historic
cemetery that we maintain for the proper reinterrment of these HUMAN
remains.

Without letters of support from you the genealogy community, these remains
will be PUT BACK INTO THE PARKING LOT! Paved over once again and forgotten.

Please, we ask that you take 1 minute of your time, send a letter of support
to: . Support the reinterrment to Staten Island
Cemetery.

Time is once again running out for these unfortunate travelers. We in the
genealogy community have accumulated their information, now we must provide
to them final dignity. Your letter of support could make this possible.

Please send a letter of support today to

Thank you. Diane

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