Richard Churcher died 16 years before Trinity Churchyard was incorporated. He is buried in what became the north churchyard. There are many icons that symbolize the shortness of life on his gravestone: a skull and crossbones, a winged hourglass, an imitation of a seventeenth-century English bedstead carved at the top of the stone. His grave is the oldest in Trinity Churchyard.∼This is the oldest known tombstone in the Trinity (Episcopal) churchyard on lower Manhattan.∼Sibling of Find A Grave Memorial #182770327
Grave mentioned in a New York Sun newspaper article, reprinted in the Kansas City Star newspaper on Tuesday, June 14, 1904. The reporter was interviewing a sexton at Trinity Church about burials In Trinity Cemetery. The sexton stated:
"The first person buried here, so far as anyone knows, and judging from the headstone, was a child of 5 years by the name of Churchill, who died in 1681 - fourteen years before the original Trinity church was built. The next was a sister or brother of this little Churchill who died in 1691. I have never heard who were the parents of these children, and how they came to be buried there alone."
The stones pointed out by the sexton are in the northern part of the grounds, facing Wall street, and far removed from Mrs. Hamilton's grave. in all probability the average visitor never sees them, or at least never stops to look at them, for the reason that the inscriptions are almost illegible.
Strange to say, although not more than eighteen inches high, and discolored until almost black, they are in better condition than scores of others a century or more younger which mark a long line of interment between the Churchills and Mrs. Hamilton,
(NOTE: The Mrs. Hamilton referred to in the article is the wife of Alexander Hamilton.)
Grave mentioned in a New York Sun newspaper article, reprinted in the Kansas City Star newspaper on Tuesday, June 14, 1904. The reporter was interviewing a sexton at Trinity Church about burials In Trinity Cemetery. The sexton stated:
"The first person buried here, so far as anyone knows, and judging from the headstone, was a child of 5 years by the name of Churchill, who died in 1681 - fourteen years before the original Trinity church was built. The next was a sister or brother of this little Churchill who died in 1691. I have never heard who were the parents of these children, and how they came to be buried there alone."
The stones pointed out by the sexton are in the northern part of the grounds, facing Wall street, and far removed from Mrs. Hamilton's grave. in all probability the average visitor never sees them, or at least never stops to look at them, for the reason that the inscriptions are almost illegible.
Strange to say, although not more than eighteen inches high, and discolored until almost black, they are in better condition than scores of others a century or more younger which mark a long line of interment between the Churchills and Mrs. Hamilton,
(NOTE: The Mrs. Hamilton referred to in the article is the wife of Alexander Hamilton.)
Richard Churcher died 16 years before Trinity Churchyard was incorporated. He is buried in what became the north churchyard. There are many icons that symbolize the shortness of life on his gravestone: a skull and crossbones, a winged hourglass, an imitation of a seventeenth-century English bedstead carved at the top of the stone. His grave is the oldest in Trinity Churchyard.∼This is the oldest known tombstone in the Trinity (Episcopal) churchyard on lower Manhattan.∼Sibling of Find A Grave Memorial #182770327
Grave mentioned in a New York Sun newspaper article, reprinted in the Kansas City Star newspaper on Tuesday, June 14, 1904. The reporter was interviewing a sexton at Trinity Church about burials In Trinity Cemetery. The sexton stated:
"The first person buried here, so far as anyone knows, and judging from the headstone, was a child of 5 years by the name of Churchill, who died in 1681 - fourteen years before the original Trinity church was built. The next was a sister or brother of this little Churchill who died in 1691. I have never heard who were the parents of these children, and how they came to be buried there alone."
The stones pointed out by the sexton are in the northern part of the grounds, facing Wall street, and far removed from Mrs. Hamilton's grave. in all probability the average visitor never sees them, or at least never stops to look at them, for the reason that the inscriptions are almost illegible.
Strange to say, although not more than eighteen inches high, and discolored until almost black, they are in better condition than scores of others a century or more younger which mark a long line of interment between the Churchills and Mrs. Hamilton,
(NOTE: The Mrs. Hamilton referred to in the article is the wife of Alexander Hamilton.)
Grave mentioned in a New York Sun newspaper article, reprinted in the Kansas City Star newspaper on Tuesday, June 14, 1904. The reporter was interviewing a sexton at Trinity Church about burials In Trinity Cemetery. The sexton stated:
"The first person buried here, so far as anyone knows, and judging from the headstone, was a child of 5 years by the name of Churchill, who died in 1681 - fourteen years before the original Trinity church was built. The next was a sister or brother of this little Churchill who died in 1691. I have never heard who were the parents of these children, and how they came to be buried there alone."
The stones pointed out by the sexton are in the northern part of the grounds, facing Wall street, and far removed from Mrs. Hamilton's grave. in all probability the average visitor never sees them, or at least never stops to look at them, for the reason that the inscriptions are almost illegible.
Strange to say, although not more than eighteen inches high, and discolored until almost black, they are in better condition than scores of others a century or more younger which mark a long line of interment between the Churchills and Mrs. Hamilton,
(NOTE: The Mrs. Hamilton referred to in the article is the wife of Alexander Hamilton.)
Bio by: BKGeni
Inscription
W. C.
HEAR . LYES . THE . BODY
OF . RICHARD . CHVRCH
ER . SON . OF . WILLIA
M . CHVRCHER . WHO .
DIED . THE . 5 OF . APRIL
1681 . OF . AGE 5 YEARS
AND . 5 . MONTHS
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