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St Peter’s Cemetery
Oakwood Avenue – Troy, NY
St Peter’s Cemetery is located on the east side of Oakwood Avenue, across from the Oakwood Cemetery in the city of Troy and is one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in Rensselaer County.
Trustees of St Peter’s Church purchased the land for this cemetery in 1858. Some earlier Catholic burials in Troy were in the southern section of the Old Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue, where lots were also purchased by St Peter’s in 1835. This section is known as the “Old Catholic Burying-ground” (source: Weise, Arthur James “The City of Troy and It Vicinity”, Troy, NY, 1886). Very few headstones remain visible in this older cemetery, as they were intentionally laid flat in 1872 and eventually got turfed over. https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2508581/mount-ida-catholic-cemetery
Another, even older, Catholic burial place is in the Lansingburgh section of Troy. Information and links to burial maps can be found at http://lansingburghhistoricalsociety.org/lansingburgh-cemeteries/
St Peter’s Church, the original Roman Catholic parish in Rensselaer County, incorporated in 1827. It was the third oldest Roman Catholic parish in New York State. St Peter’s Church closed in June 2009. Some more recent baptism and marriage records are held at St Anthony’s Church in Troy. The oldest records are at the Roman Catholic Diocese offices in Albany https://www.rcda.org/
While use of St Peter’s Cemetery began in 1858, interment records before 1909 were lost. Neither St Anthony’s nor the Diocese have these interment records. The records in the list below for over 11,000 burials at this cemetery range from 1909 to 2002. However, some additional burials may be located by searching these websites which also include thousands of gravestone photos for St Peter’s:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/66190/saint-peter’s-cemetery
http://newyorkgravestones.org/cemetery.php?cemID=3240
St Peter's Cemetery - Troy
wdt_ID | LAST NAME | FIRST NAME | RESIDENCE | AGE | DATE OF DEATH | DATE OF BURIAL | WHERE BURIED | EXACT LOCATION | UNDERTAKER | REMARKS | PAGE |
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1 | Abare | Henry | Cohoes Hospital | 76 yrs. | 13 Jun 1943 | 16 Jun 1943 | Lot 1056 | South E. Corner | Fonda | Pine | 205 |
2 | Abbot | Kathleen M. | 77 Excelsior Ave. Troy, N.Y. | 78 yrs. | 22 Jan 1976 | 24 Jan 1976 | Lot 91 Sec 3 | 2 grave South E. Corner | Purcell | Steel | 383 |
3 | Abbott | Andrew | Troy | 59 yrs. | 27 Feb 1946 | 02 Mar 1946 | Lot 8 Sec 8 | South W. Corner | D. Purcell | Steel | 222 |
4 | Abbott | David | 2 Lincoln Ave. | 25 yrs | 26 Nov 1912 | 28 Nov 1912 | Lot 1190 | Second grave, South W. Corner | Purcell Bros. | 29 | |
5 | Abbott | David | 2 Lincoln Ave. | 25 yrs | 26 Nov 1912 | 28 Nov 1912 | Lot 1190 | 2nd grave South W. Corner | Purcell Bros. | 31 | |
6 | Abbott | Ellen | Troy | 69 yrs. | 17 Sep 1929 | 20 Sep 1929 | Lot 1750 | South End of Lot | Purcell Bros. | 128 | |
7 | Abbott | Emma | Troy | 52 yrs. | 15 Dec 1943 | 18 Dec 1943 | Lot 1189 | North E. Corner | D. Purcell | Concrete | 208 |
8 | Abbott | Jane | Troy | 68 years | 07 Apr 1922 | 10 Apr 1922 | Lot 1190 | South E. Corner | T.A. Styles | 90 | |
9 | Abbott | Joseph E. | Glass Lake, NY | 55 years | 02 Feb 1957 | 05 Feb 1957 | Lot 158 | North E. Corner | Purcell | steel vault - 2 graves & P.C. | 288 |
10 | Abbott | Katherine | 68 6th Ave. | 85 yrs. | 04 Oct 1964 | 07 Oct 1964 | Lot 8 Sec. 8 | 2 grave South W. Corner | Purcell, Daniel | 331 |