"God keeps His eye on those that are dead and buried the same as He does on those that are alive and walking. When the time comes the dead are raised, He won't need any directions where they're lying. Their bones may be turned to dust, and weeds may be growing out of their dust, but they aren't lost. He knows where they are; He knows the exact whereabouts of every speck of dust of every one of them. Stones rot the same as bones rot, and nothing endures but the spirit."
"'Several men from Sandy Ground fought in the Civil War,' Mr. Hunter said, 'and one of them was Samuel Fish.'"
"Preserved Fish is in vault No. 75 in the century-old New York City Marble Cemetery at Second St. near Second Ave. wherein lie many of oldtime New York's families: Chesebrough, Lenox, Ogden, Allen, Bogardus, Van Alen, Griswold, Kip, Taylor, Stanton, Webb. A marble slab marks "PRESERVED FISH'S VAULT" where five others (only one other Fish. Mary) are buried. On the Fish plot there also rises a marble monument to Captain H. Leslie, a New Bedford fellow-whaler, who is also in vault No. 75."
"Preserved is a venerable Quaker name. "
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
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Sandy Ground early prosperous free-black community on Staten Island, oystermen; initially immigrant from Maryland where there were laws against them owning their own sloops.
Joseph Mitchell centenary July 27, 2008. Born Fairmont, North Carolina, 1908. Jophet always tries to commemorate the passing of these numeric landmarks!
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