Patrick Hayes
b. 22 Jun 1852 in Ireland, d. 7 Nov 1917 in New York

Catherine Berry Hayes
b. abt 1865 in Dromore, Ireland, d. 20 Oct 1942 in New York

John Hayes, Infant son
b. 27 Sep 1891 in new York, d. 27 Sep 1891 in New York

Mary Josephine Hayes, 9 month old daughter
b. 12 Mar 1893 in New York, d. 9 Jan 1894 in New York

Catherine (Katie) Hayes, 4 day old daughter
b. Jul 1896 in New York, d. Jul 1896 in New York

Edward Hayes, 1 day old son
b. 10 Aug 1897 in New York, d. 11 Aug 1897 in New York

Johanna Hayes, 6 year old daughter
b. 10 Aug 1894 in New York, d. 5 Jun 1900 in New York

and

David Barry, brother of Catherine Barry Hayes
d. 13 Nov 1892 in New York

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David Beattie, according to the gravestone was lost at sea on 8 October 1861 at the age of 20.  I cannot tell you how much time I spent looking for him, never considering the possibility that he was lost at sea.

Thank you John!

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• Lewis
• Tierney
• Beattie
• Hayes
• Hanley
• Colwell
• Gackstetter
• Bishop
• Graham
• Hayes
• Sheehan

With the help of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Volunteer Jack Stanton, I was able to discover a treasure-trove of information about several Sheehan and Hayes relatives who are interned at the Old St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Bedford, NH. (see “Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness” – A Must For The Genealogy Toolbox!).

I had contacted Jack by email and asked him to photograph the grave stone of two Great, Great Aunts who I knew were buried there; Margaret Simpson and Hanorah Sheehan. What I got was a picture full of surprises and the location of internment for some others I had been looking for, for some time.

The Sheehans

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But perhaps the most interesting piece of information comes in the form of the following inscription.

“A Member of Company K, 10th Regiment, N.H. Volunteers”

My Great, Great Grandfather was a civil war veteran. According to subsequent records I found through Google and Ancestry.com, I was able to determine that he enlisted on July 25, 1861 at age 38 and served for several years.

• Enlisted as a Private on 25 July 1861
• Enlisted in Company C, 3rd Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 23 Aug 1861.
• Received a disability discharge from Company C, 3rd Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 19 Oct 1861 at Annapolis, MD.
• Enlisted in Company K, 10th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 5 Sep 1862.
• Received a disability discharge from Company K, 10th Infantry Regiment New Hampshire on 28 Apr 1863.
• Enlisted in Company C, 11th Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on 4 Jan 1864.
• Received a disability discharge from Company C, 11th Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on 2 Dec 1864 at Point Lookout, MD.

I found the following snippet about Company K:

“THE regiment was organized under the call of July 1, 1862, for 300,000 men. One company was recruited at Nashua and vicinity ; one at Portsmouth; one at Andover and Wilmot; one at Farmington and Dover, while Manchester furnished the larger part of six companies. Capt. Michael T. Donohoe, then an officer of the Third New Hampshire regiment, was appointed colonel and Hon. John Coughlin, who resigned his seat in the New Hampshire legislature to accept, was appointed lieutenant- colonel. Manchester was selected as the rendezvous and the camp was named ” Camp Pillsbury ” ; Companies began to arrive on the 20th of August and on the 5th of September, 1862, the regiment was mustered into service of the United States.”

The 10th Infantry Regiment participated in many battles. 7 Officers and 54 Enlisted men were killed in battle while 1 Officer and 133 Enlisted men died of disease.

In The Sheehan Plot

• Jeremiah D. Sheehan
  My Great, Great Grandfather
  b. 1826 in Ireland
  d. December 16, 1891
  Buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
  Lived: In Manchester, NH and Boscawen, NH
• Mary Sullivan Sheehan
  My Great, Great Grandmother
  b. 1829 in Ireland
  d. 1870
  Buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
  Lived: In Manchester, NH and Boscawen, NH
• Danial J. Sheehan (spelling of first name according to grave stone)
  My Great, Great Uncle
  b. 1851 in New Hampshire
  d. 1900
  Buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
  Lived: In Manchester, NH and Boscawen, NH
• Margaret G Simpson (Sheehan)
  My Great, Great Aunt
  b. 1858 in New Hampshire
  d. 1930
  Buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
  Lived: In Manchester, NH; Boscawen, NH; Danbury, NH and Goffstown, NH
• Hanorah A Sheehan (Not on stone, but in database)
  My Great, Great Aunt
  b. 1860 in New Hampshire
  d. 11/23/1939
  Buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
  Lived: In Manchester, NH; Boscawen, NH and Goffstown, NH
• Catherine Sheehan
  b. 1865
  d. 1867
  At this time, I don’t know who this is or who her parents were.

John J. and Jane B. Hayes

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John and Jane had a son, Tommy, who passed away at age 11 or so.  I am not sure whether he is buried at this same site or not.  I did see a Thomas Hayes, Age 11 in the database of Hayes’ at this Cemetery, but I could not determine whether he is buried in this same plot.

There were other photo’s of Hayes plots taken.  Right know I’m trying to figure out if and how they fit in.  Stay tuned!

The Hayes Plot

• John J. Hayes
  b. November, 1849 in England
  d. 1905 in New Hampshire
  buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH
• Jane B. Kelty (Kilty)
  b. 1849 in Manchester, England
  d. 7/31/1927 in Manchester, NH
  buried: The Old St. Josephs Cemetery in Beford, NH

First, I believe “Mary Beattie & Infant” (b 1864, d. 1904) may be the wife of John J. Beattie.   John J. Beattie is the brother of Sarah Beattie, my great grandmother.  John J. Beattie and Mary had four children; John, Mary, Margaret and Angela.  Although John J. Beattie does not appear to be buried here, everything else seems to be matching up.  According to my Uncle Lloyds notes,  one of John’s children died of a brain injury in their teen years.  This appears to be John Jr (b. 1892, d. 1907).  I’ll pull the death certificate in the coming weeks in order to determine the exact cause of death and relationship.

Now,  John’s sister and daughter of John J. Beattie is Mary Beattie (b. 1895, d. 1990). She married Philip McCarthy (b. 1894, d. 1971).  Philip and Mary Beattie McCarthy had a son Joseph McCarthy (b. 1924 d. 1974) who served as a Reverend for a church somewhere.  I am now try to find out where.

So now that leaves us with just a few names to figure out:

• Elizabeth Beattie (B. ?, d. 1897)
• Francis Dillon (b. 1858, d. 1897) – Maybe the son of Francis Dillon, my great, great grandfather.
• Sarah McDermott (b. 1840, d. 1897)
• Julia Beattie ( b. 1899, d. 1899) – 6 months old.
• Francis Beattie (b. 1903, d. 1904) – 1 year old.

Back in July 2008, I made a trip to Holy Cross after learning from two death certificates that James F. Tierney and Mary Dillon Beattie were buried separately there. The staff at Holy Cross was kind enough to point me to the two grave sites which were on opposite ends of the cemetery.

I first went to visit the grave of James F. Tierney. Unfortunately, the grave was nice, but quite generic, listing only the last name “Tierney”. There were absolutely no details on anyone buried there.

So then I went to the Beattie grave. I was quite happy to see several names listed on the stone including Jonathan, Mary, Francis, Edward Sheridan and Elizabeth Beattie Sheridan. One name that surprised me was that of Philip McCarthy. To my knowledge, we had no links to any McCarthy’s in our family tree.  Who could this be?  A family friend?  A distant relative?

So armed with a dozen or so questions, I proceeded back to the Cemetery office. Unfortunately, I was informed that any internment information on the graves would have to be researched and that I would have to send a letter, along with a check for $75, requesting the report.

grrrrrrrrrrr… So at least the report is finally here.

The Tierney Grave
Nothing real surprising at the Tierney grave, although I did not really expect to see brother Thomas or son James there. I was hoping that James’ father or mother would be buried there so I could dig up some more info about them. But I’ll take what I can get.

The Beattie Grave

Now here is where I was caught completely by surprise.

Now here is another strange twist to this story. The people above with the “*” were all buried together in a different plot before being moved to these two grave sites in February of 1897. The plot that they were in, was purchased by a Mr. Harry Boyle. Who knows… maybe they borrowed space until they could purchase a family plot.

A true mystery is unfolding again!  Now, I’m going to have to make another day trip to the New City Archives and dedicate it to tracking down these people and see where their puzzle piece fits into our family tree. Stay tuned….

I found the same thing over at Green-Wood Cemetery.  Only Henry and Anna Lewis are listed on the headstone there.  BUT THERE ARE 8 OTHER LEWIS FAMILY MEMBERS BURIED THERE!  

Now back to Holy Cross…  There is a nice big Tierney headstone at the site of James F. Tierney and Sarah Beattie Teirney, but only James is listed… and it is on a side stone, next to the main stone.  There may be other Tierneys there too, but according to the office staff there, I need to pay a fee to the cemetery to research it.  Needless to say, I already sent in the request!

Now at the Beattie headstone, I found the first grave that is as I expected it to be.  A nice big stone with lots of names on it.  Even one I have no idea who it is.  At the bottom of the stone is a fairly recent inscription (1977) listing a Philip F. McCarthy (b. 1856, d. 1971).  As far as I know, we have no McCarthy’s in our tree.  So was this a mistake?  Did someone change their name?  Is he a family friend?  Who knows?  Maybe I’ll find out more when I get some information back from the Cemetery.

In 1761,  a mission church, then called Saint George’s (now St. Mark’s), was established on a plot of ground across the street from the current Friendly’s Restaurant on East Main Street, just south of the Northern Westchester Hospital complex. (The area was then referred to as North Castle, explaining early references to “Saint Mark’s North Castle” as opposed to “Saint Mark’s Mount Kisco.”)

St. Mark’s was formally recognized as a religious corporation in New Castle in 1850, largely through the efforts of the Reverend R. M. Harris, rector of Grace Church, White Plains.

A new church was built on the site of the earlier Saint George’s which was sold in 1819 due to extensive damage from Revolutionary War battles. According to records, the new building was a “model for a country church, 50 by 30 feet with a tower projecting 8 feet in front.” Exclusive of stained glass and the furniture, it cost $2,050. The burying ground, which was in back of Saint George’s and then St. Mark’s, remains to this day. It contains graves dating back to the Revolutionary War.

During the Revolutionary War, New and North Castle were officially considered neutral territory. However, the area was strongly patriotic. One significant Revolutionary War conflict did occur in North Castle – The Battle of White Plains. This battle of October 28, 1776 was a series of short skirmishes between General Washington’s small American army and General William Howe’s much largerBritish & Hessian force. Although the British eventually won the confrontation, forcing Washington’s troops to retreat, Howe never followed up this advantage by pursuing and capturing the American army. Thus, the battle served as a delaying action that allowed Washington’s troops to withdraw to safety in New Jersey. As a result, many historians feel that the battle marked an important turning point in the war.

One other important Revolutionary War event occurred in the North Castle area involving the infamous British spy, Major John Andre. In December 1780, Major Andre was captured in Tarrytown by American soldiers. Upon searching Andre they found concealed documents from American General Benedict Arnold that contained secret plans of West Point. Upon his arrest, Andre was first held in Thomas Wright’s Mills (later known as Sands’ Mills) at Mile Square. A month later Andre was hanged for treason.

The Elijah Miller house in North White Plains was several times the headquarters of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. A few miles to the west (in present-day Mount Kisco) St. George’s Church (or North Castle Church) served as a camp and hospital. A young Frenchman’s diary dated July 6, 1781, reported of the area:

This whole country gives evidence of the horrors of war… All the Whigs here have abandoned their houses. Among them are some very handsome ones, deserted, half destroyed, or burned, with untended orchards and gardens filled with fruits and vegetables and driveways overgrown with grass two feet high

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The Green-Wood Cemetery
500 – 25th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11232-1317
Phone: 718-768-7300
Web Site:  www.green-wood.com

Here are just a few of the famous people buried at Green-Wood Cemetery:

	Julius Walker Adams, Civil War colonel, engineer who designed preliminary plans for the Brooklyn Bridge
	Albert Anastasia, mobster
	Jean Michel Basquiat, graffiti artist, Andy Warhol protege
	Henry Ward Beecher, abolitionist, religious leader, subject of scandal
	Leonard Bernstein, music giant: composer, conductor, and teacher
	Harvey Burdell, murder victim
	George Catlin, painter of Indians
	Henry Chadwick, “Father of Baseball”
	Kate Claxton, actress on stage during the Brooklyn Theater fire
	De Witt Clinton, force behind the Erie Canal, political leader
	Abraham Duryee, Civil War general
	Charles Ebbets, Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner
	Molly Fancher, psychic
	Joey Gallo, mobster nicknamed “Crazy Joe”
	Henry George, political and economic reformer
	Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America’s first great composer
	Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune
	Henry Halleck, General in command of all Union forces during the Civil War
	William Surrey Hart, cowboy actor
	Laura Keene, actress on stage at Ford’s Theatre when President Lincoln was shot
	Ward McAllister, New York’s social arbiter
	Susan Smith McKinney-Steward, first black woman doctor in New York State
	Lola Montez, independent woman famed for her affairs and her Spider Dance
	Frank Morgan, actor, best known for his role as the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz”
	Napoleon Sarony, photographer to the stars
	George Tilyou, proprietor of Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park
	Juan Trippe, founder of Pan American Air Airways
	“Boss” Tweed, political boss of New York City
	Lester Walleck, actor