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Subject: [NYKINGS] St John's Lutheran aka New Utrecht Cemetery CLEAN UP Oct9th
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:20:10 EDT

Not too long ago I was asked where St John's Lutheran Cemetery was located.
I'm passing the info to several lists as CLEAN UP is Oct 9th is anyone can
volunteer!!

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_http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Cemetery/StJohnLutheran.html_
(http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Cemetery/StJohnLutheran.html)

Last week Jackie was kind enough to add to Nancy Geiss' info: here's the
answer:

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Thanks so much for your interest in the New Utrecht Cemetery (aka St. John’s

Lutheran). As promised, I brought up your interest in the cemetery’s
records at last night’s Friends of Historic New Utrecht’s monthly meeting.
If anyone would like to request a look up they are welcome to direct their
inquiries to the group in any of the following ways:

Through the website:
http://www.historicnewutrecht.org/

Via ‘snail mail’:
The Friends of Historic New Utrecht
1831 84th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11214

Or by phone:
718-256-7173

All enquiries will be responded to as quickly as possible but we are a
volunteer group and as I know you’re well acquainted with, time is always a
premium. =)

Please be sure to let everyone know that the posted list that was compiled
by Mrs. Frost is incorrectly labeled as ‘St. John’s Lutheran’ and that it
in
fact refers to New Utrecht Cemetery. Interestingly enough, it seems that
this misnomer was carried over to general use as I believe at least one of
the Death Certificates that my mother sent away for had interment listed as
‘St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery’ although they are at New Utrecht.

We are in the process of preparing our records with the goal of making them
available online but we are not quite there yet.

A little background on the structure for the care/maintenance of the
cemetery… it was set up to be cared for by the families of those who are
buried there. Unfortunately there aren’t too many of them anymore (my
mother and I have relatives there which is how we came to be acquainted with
and ultimately became members of Friends) and so care has fallen to
volunteers. The cemetery is fenced in and kept locked when no one is
present – there was an incident with vandalism a few years ago where kids
came in, damaged and knocked over a bunch of stones and generally wrought
havoc.

Also, if you would be so kind as to let the list know that we currently have
a cemetery clean up (weather permitting) scheduled for Monday, October 9th
beginning at 10AM. This is the observed Columbus Day holiday.
Unfortunately, I am not lucky enough to have the day off and will have to
miss it… Usually we are there for a few hours and how much we accomplish is
dependent on how many bodies show up. We currently have a couple of working
lawn mowers and a weed whacker along with a few manual tools. Due to our
limited pool of available folk, the cemetery has gotten away from us a bit
with some very heavy overgrowth of weeds concentrated in the center in the
midst of many stones (and what we think may be poison sumac and/or poison
ivy in one spot). We have been able to maintain about ¾ of the property,
particularly around the perimeter but the one section in the middle has
become a challenge for us and we are researching ways to effectively and
appropriately deal with it. With that in mind (haha and hopefully it
doesn’t scare people off – there’s plenty of non-jungle ground - I just
felt
I should mention it), if anyone would be interested in coming to lend a hand
we would be thrilled to have them. They would need to bring some hand tools
as we may not have enough for everyone to use and gloves. Please dress with
long pants and the usual precautions for being out in tall grasses, etc.

This would also be a wonderful opportunity for anyone who has relatives
buried here or thinks that they might. Please ask anyone who would like to
participate to contact Friends at the above # to let us know so we have an
idea how many people we can expect. The cemetery is located at 16th Avenue
between 85th and 84th Streets with the entrance part way down on 85th
Street.

Thank you in advance for sharing this with the list and thank you for ALL
that you do maintaining the list and coordinating the volunteers who add
their research to the Brooklyn pages!!! =)

Regards,
Jackie
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Thanks To Nancy G. and Jackie!!

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