Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 85, Joined Lots 5212 and 19682.
Two stones, one of which is completely illegible, stand on these joined lots.
[NOTE: Individuals buried here but not memorialized by any currently visible or legible stone or inscription are noted after the inscriptions.]
INSCRIPTIONS
The white stone is eroded beyond legibility, but most likely once memorialized the earliest burials here: Jones, Rowland, and Ackerman.
The pink granite stone is inscribed on all 4 sides of the base and the front and back of the obelisk shaft.
INSCRIPTIONS
----Shaft front:
Edwin E. Shand
Born Nov. 18, 1901
Died Jan. 13, 1981
Constance M. Shand
Born July 1, 1909
[No death date inscribed, but her burial here took place on Dec 9 2000.]
----Base front:
Peter Shand
Born in Scotland Dec. 3, 1821,
Died in New York Oct. 11, 1870.
We mourn his loss.
Margaret
Wife of Peter Shand
Born Feb. 18, 1827,
Died June 23, 1880.
SHAND.
----Base left side:
Henry T.
Alexander
John
David
John Edgar
----Base right:
Wm. E. Mapes
Died Jan. 29, 1879.
Petie
Died July 29, 1874.
Willie
Died June 22, 1875.
Margaret H.
Died June 23, 1901.
Kate L. his wife
Died Dec. 20, 1910.
[NOTE: This text is confusing, but represents William E Mapes, his wife Kate, and 3 of their children, one of whom, Margaret, was buried under her married name, WHEDON.]
----Shaft rear:
Wm. H. West
Born April 21, 1854,
Died Aug. 22, 1887.
Florrie A. West
Aged 1 y’6. 2 mos.
----Base rear:
Peter Shand Jr.
Born Jan. 29, 1853
Died Feb. 22, 1885.
Ella M. Shand
Died June 18, 1925
[NOTE: Lot burial list from online cemetery records, with burial dates, which may represent reburials after removal from previous graves. Asterisks indicate those buried without visible stone and/or legible inscription. This list may be incomplete. Contact the cemetery for more complete information about lots and occupants at http://www.green-wood.com:
ACKERMAN: *Hannah, 3/10/1874; *John, 4/19/1877; and *John O, 2/9/1869.
CROSS: *Cornelia, 12/27/1878.
JONES: *James B, 8/19/1855; *Jonathan T, 7/27/1858; and *Mary, 11/10/1883,
MAPES: *Edwin Enos, 11/24/1925; Kate L, 12/23/1910; Peter T, 7/30/1873 (stone says 1874); William E, 1/31/1879; and William (“Willie”) Shand, 6/24/1874 (stone says 1875).
MOORE: *Lillian, 6/25/1949.
PARMALEE: *Agnes S, 4/14/1920.
ROWLAND: *Hannah M, 5/28/1855.
SHAND: Alexander, 1/8/1852; Constance M, 12/9/2000; David, 7/29/1861; Edwin, 1/16/1981; Ella Melissa, 6/21/1925; Henry, 6/22/1871; John, 3/23/1855; John E, 8/10/1858; *Male child of Mary, 9/17/1866; Margaret A, 6/25/1880; Peter, 10/13/1870; Peter Jr, 2/25/1885; and *William E, 1/6/1938.
WEST: Florence A, 11/8/1879; and William Henry, 8/24/1887.
WHEDON: Margaret Mapes, 6/26/1901.]