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Irish Holocaust- Push to Educate the Facts
"According to Public Health Chronicles the hospital often treated up to 8,000 patients per year and in an effort to curtail the dangerous spread of disease they simply carried the dead from their beds to the grave. No death certificates were issued and no burial records were kept.
Their bodies were placed in trenches throughout the cemetery, near the hospital and also all the way up the hill on the 30 acre property, now stretching towards the Silver Lake Golf Course.
Lynn Rogers, executive director of the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island (FACSI) said, “This facility simply couldn’t handle the volume of people dying. They also had 1850s mass emigration from Germany so the facility got slammed.”
Jennifer Hyatt-Morgan, a FACSI volunteer, transcribed the facility’s mortality schedule during an eight month period, selecting only the Irish. During that short period 650 died, according to the records.
Rogers said, “There’s two cemeteries. There’s the one that became the parking lot and there’s another one that today is a huge golf course and that’s where they buried the majority of them. There absolutely is thousands of bodies there.
“The reason they made the cemetery into a golf course in the 1920s /1930s is because there are just too many remains in there. There must be tens of thousands.”http://irishhungercomm.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/thousands-of-great-hunger-victims-who-died-in-staten-island-quarantine-remembered/
We thank Corbis for the image and Irish Hunger wordpress page for the info.
We also have a link to those whose names have been recorded. It is a small selection. (MAC)http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrichmo/1850_fedcensus/1850_mortality.html
Irish Holocaust- Push to Educate the Facts
"According to Public Health Chronicles the hospital often treated up to 8,000 patients per year and in an effort to curtail the dangerous spread of disease they simply carried the dead from their beds to the grave. No death certificates were issued and no burial records were kept.
Their bodies were placed in trenches throughout the cemetery, near the hospital and also all the way up the hill on the 30 acre property, now stretching towards the Silver Lake Golf Course.
Lynn Rogers, executive director of the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries of Staten Island (FACSI) said, “This facility simply couldn’t handle the volume of people dying. They also had 1850s mass emigration from Germany so the facility got slammed.”
Jennifer Hyatt-Morgan, a FACSI volunteer, transcribed the facility’s mortality schedule during an eight month period, selecting only the Irish. During that short period 650 died, according to the records.
Rogers said, “There’s two cemeteries. There’s the one that became the parking lot and there’s another one that today is a huge golf course and that’s where they buried the majority of them. There absolutely is thousands of bodies there.
“The reason they made the cemetery into a golf course in the 1920s /1930s is because there are just too many remains in there. There must be tens of thousands.”http://irishhungercomm.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/thousands-of-great-hunger-victims-who-died-in-staten-island-quarantine-remembered/
We thank Corbis for the image and Irish Hunger wordpress page for the info.
We also have a link to those whose names have been recorded. It is a small selection. (MAC)http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrichmo/1850_fedcensus/1850_mortality.html
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