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Surveyed
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The
Riker Family graveyard in the rear contains 132 marked graves of the
Rikers and the Lents. The exiled Irish Catholic patriot, Dr. William
J. MacNeven, husband of Jane Riker, is buried here. He is also
honored by
a prominent memorial in the Episcopal St. Paul's Chapel graveyard on
Broadway and Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. As Supervisor of New York City hospitals, he led the fight
against the outbreaks of cholera and smallpox in 1834. Also buried
here is Catherine Ann Tone, wife of Wolfe Tone, leader of the 1848 Irish
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A
Particularly Poetic Inscription
Weep
not for me my friends all dear, I am not dead but sleeping here. The
debt is paid, my grave you see, Prepare for death and follow me. My flesh
shall slumber in the ground Till the last trumpet’s solemn sound; Then
burst the bands in sweet surprise, And in my savior’s image rise. |
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Other
Famous Stones:
No.
105. MARBLE MONUMENT
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(Inscription on the west side)
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The
grave of ABRAHAM RIKER, son of Abraham & Margaret Riker; born 1655;
died Aug. 20, 1746, in the 91st year of his age.
And
in Memory of his grandsire GUYSBERT RIKER, a native of Holland, who came
to America in 1630, obtained a patent for his lands at Bowery, L.I.,
bearing date 1632.
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on the south side.)
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In
Memory of Capt. ABRAHAM RIKER, son of Andrew and Jane Riker; born 1740.
Served his country nobly in the war of the Revolution and died at
Valley Forge May 7, 1778, in his 38th year.
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