History of Lake Cemetery

History of Lake Cemetery. . , The Old Clove Baptist Church removed from Clove road at Richmond Road and relocated to Willowbrook Road about 1840. Soon a church building was erected as a meeting place for the North Shore Baptist Church and stood on the edge of a farm owned by Ann and Joseph Lake, who specified all the land surrounding the building should be used as a cemetery. It is from this couple that the Lake Cemetery derives its name. The title to all the cemetery land and considerably more, is derived through a deed from John Wright to Joseph Lake, dated February 8, 1837 and recorded on January 25, 1842., The original section of Lake Cemetery was known as the old Burying Ground of the First Baptist Church of Graniteville. IT begins at a point on Willowbrook Road and 350 feet south of Richmond Avenue (now Port Richmond Avenue). It occupies a lot on the west side of Willowbrook Road, in dimensions about 41 x 104 feet. The first recorded burial stone is of John son of Rebecca and Cornilius Van Name who died on January 26, 1835. There is some indication that this Van Name plot was originally located in the Dutch Reformed Church/Cemetery in Port Richmond. In the old section is a large underground marble vault of the Reverend White and his family., Lake Cemetery is non-sectarian. A complete burial map and all of the original records of the cemetery does not survive. The burial records for Lake Cemetery is a combination of one original book, undertaker records and VLD grave stone study of 1922. This list can be found in part of the Richmond County Genealogy website or by visiting Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc. site., The cemetery is approximately 2.8 acres in total size., History of Lake Cemetery Continued… , At the end of the 19th century, Italian emigration was on the rise. Many of the new immigrants settled in the Port Richmond, Elm Park and Graniteville areas. A large unused section of Lake Cemetery became known as Silvie's Cemetery, named after the Silvie Funeral Home. This area is generally known to be by the fence on the outer boarders of the cemetery. Mots of the Staten Island Italian immigrants buried at this site had split with the Catholic Church and established Methodists/Episcopal churches. Prior 1950 Catholics were prohibited from burial in non-Catholic cemeteries; however, Lake Cemetery has several Catholic burials for reasons known to the cemetery association and the families., The old Church building has been remodeled several times over the past 174 years and by the turn of the 20th century the Baptist group had given over its use to the Graniteville Literary Society, most of whose members were Methodists. The congregation of Graniteville Church was organized on November 6, 1908, principally by members of the Union Sunday School class which hadmet in the community for many years. It was supported by its Port Richmond neighbor Grace Methodist Church., Today, Lake Cemetery is owned by the Lake Cemetery Association but managed and maintained by the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries, Inc., List of Veterans buried at Lake Cemetery , Civil War World War I , Achilles, Henry - 41st NY Cirma, Domenico - 327th NY . Burton, William - 59th NY . Braxton, Robert - US Navy - USS Brandywine . Crowley, Clarence G. - PFC18DEPSVG ASCNY . Brinkley, John - 132 NY and US Navy Full Corporal . Davis, Theodore - 367th NY, 92nd Div . Bunn, Ellis Albert - 6th NY Light Artillery Decker, David L. - 2nd Pioneer NY MP . Decker, Abraham - 82nd NY POW DeRosa, Francesco - 73rd NY INfantry . Decker, Samuel W. 158 NY Hall, Thomas - Indiana . Decker, Simon Van Name - 82nd NY Klein, George L. Gassed . Earl Emeline - Nurse - Wounded Luciano, Ralph J. - 308th NY Bugler . Earl, Henry - Veterinarian Lagomarcino, Alfred J. - F57 NY Artillery . Elms, Charles I. - 132nd NY Norburgh George - 103rd Inf. 26 Div. . Elms, Daniel - 156th NY Norman, Russell - 308th NY - Gassed . Emmet, A Piccioni, Vincent - Private 64 Co. 153DB . Eveland, Theodore - 129th PA Prine, Wilbur - 367th NY 92nd Div. . Favreau, Rudolph - 20th Ill, Musician Robinson, Edward . Gillies, Duncan - 5th Maryland Van Pelt, Clarence O. - 28th AERO . Hoffman, Charles - 13th Ohio Van Pelt, Percy - Private - 26th Engineer . Holman, Napoleon Bonaparte - 2nd Ohio Wallace, James H. USNR . Howard, Robert - 54th Mass. . Humphrey, Correl L. - 80th NY Assist. Surgeon . Johnson, Richard C. 132nd NY and US Navy . Leonard John H. 132nd NY World War II . Leonard, Morris - 11th NY Fire Zouaves . Lockman, Isaac - 82nd NY Killed Gettysburg . Dragovich, George N. - USAF, Italy - KIA . Lockman, John (Jack) - 82nd NY - Wounded Klein, George A. 51st Armored Inf. KIA, Parisian, Genaro A. - USAF, McCormace, L. . Snyder, Henry - 31st NJ - Musician Honorable Calvin Decker Van Name . Taylor, Matthew - 35th NY 3rd Staten Island Borough President, Turner, George - 132nd NY who served during world war one . Van Pelt, Andrew - 132nd NY . Westerfield, Horatio - 12th NY . Young, Henry A. - 1st NY Calvary