Cypress Hills Cemetery

About

Cypress Hills Cemetery was the first non-sectarian/non-denominational cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City.

Description

Here is a list of some of our notables:

Mae West (1893-1980), actress, comedienne, and playwright;

Josh White (1914-1969), musician

Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), Hall of Fame baseball player, the first African-American player in the major leagues

Eubie Blake (1883-1983), musician and composer

Homer Lusk Collyer (1881-1947), recluse and hoarder

Langley Collyer (1885-1947), recluse and hoarder

James J. Corbett (1866-1933), World Heavyweight boxing champion

Hiram Cronk (1800-1905), last surviving veteran of the War of 1812

Mock Duck (1879-1941), New York Chinese gang leader

Monk Eastman, real name Edward Osterman, (1873-1920), notorious New York Gang leader

Lee Falk (1911-1999), cartoonist, creator of The Phantom

Bob "Death to Flying Things" Ferguson (1845-1894), major league baseball player, manager

Gloria Foster (1933-2001), actress

Kate Fox (1837-1892), spiritualist

Maggie Fox (1833-1893), spiritualist

Irving Lehman (1876-1945), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals

George Leonidas Leslie (1842-1878) Architect, Noted Bank Robber

Rosetta Lenoire (1911-2002), actress, National Medal of the Arts winner

George H. Mills (1843-1885), murderer

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch painter

Victor Moore (1876-1962), actor, comedian

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), founder of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City

John B. Wood (1827-1884), journalist