Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery
The Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery is a rural cemetery located in Poughkeepsie, New York and includes the gravesites of several notable figures. It also has a crematory. The forty-four acres of land used for the cemetery were purchased by Matthew Vassar.
Some of its architectural features were designed by J. A. Wood. His work includes the cemetery gates and gatehouse, the Frost Mausoleum, and a monument for Matthew Vassar's nephew, John Guy Vassar.
Hamilton and Schuyler families
Several relatives of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of [the United States], are buried at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery:- Allan McLane Hamilton, psychiatrist
- Louis McLane Hamilton, cavalry officer in the Civil War and American Indian Wars
- Philip Hamilton, lawyer, Judge Advocate, youngest son of Alexander Hamilton
- Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, politician, brother of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church and Margarita Schuyler Van Rensselaer.
Notable burials
Other notable individuals buried or cremated at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery include:- Theodorus Bailey, politician
- Stephen Baker, politician
- Jane Bolin, judge
- Harvey G. Eastman, educator and politician
- James Emott, politician
- Margaret Hamilton, actress, played the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz
- Frank Hasbrouck, lawyer, county judge, Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department
- Dustin John Higgs, American convicted murderer executed by the United States federal government
- Charles Johnston, politician
- Anandi Gopal Joshi, first female Indian doctor, buried under the name "Anandabai Joshee" with the Carpenter family.
- John J. Kindred, politician
- Henry A. Livingston, politician
- Johnny Miller, gyroplane pioneer, test pilot and airline pilot
- Sterling Morrison, lead guitarist for American rock band The Velvet Underground
- Samuel Neilson, Irish nationalist
- Homer Augustus Nelson, politician
- Edmund Platt, politician and member of United States Federal Reserve
- Charles H. Ruggles, politician and judge
- James Fields Smathers, inventor
- William Wallace Smith I and Andrew Smith, founders of Smith Brothers Cough Drops
- John Thompson, politician
- Smith Thompson, Associate Justice United States Supreme Court and politician
- Rip Torn, actor
- Isaac Van Anden, publisher of the Brooklyn Eagle
- Matthew Vassar, brewer, merchant, founder of Vassar College