St. Mary Cemetery

St. Mary's Cemetery is probably the best office I have had dealings with. Before I went to the Yonkers Public Library, I was able to receive a list of interments for the three plots I was interested in. For the first plot, the O'Connor plot, I found there were 10 persons buried there, plus 2 cremeted persons. The plot was bought December 23, 1922 by Annie O'Connor:

John Edward O'Connor, Jr. (burial: December 26, 1922)
Anna J. O'Connor (burial: July 17, 1930)
John Edward O'Connor, Sr. (burial: February 8, 1938)
Anna L. O'Connor (burial: April 24, 1939)
Joseph L. O'Connor (burial: October 21, 1957)
Harold E. O'Connor (burial: June 3, 1964)
Rocco Bevilacqua (burial: November 4, 1964)
Kathleen O'Connor Bevilacqua (burial: July 27, 1977)
Gertrude O'Connor Knapp (burial: March 4, 1980)
Evelyn O'Connor Coughlin (cremeted: July 1988)
Dorothy O'Connor Johnson (cremeted: September 1994)

Now, if you counted correctly, you notice that there is only 11 people listed above. The 12th person listed in the interment list is listed only as "child." From what I gathered, this child was the infant son of Dorothy Johnson, who died in the hospital. This was sometime in the early to mid 1930s.

The O'Connors are the family of my maternal great-grandmother, Gertrude O'Connor Knapp. She was born October 11, 1904 and was married September 20, 1923, in New York City, to Roy Maund. They had two children, Doris and, my grandmother, Audrey. They were divorced sometime in the early 1930s and Gertrude remarried in 1938 to Albert Knapp. They had two children, Patricia and John. Albert died May 12, 1950 and Gertrude was a widow until she died.

Gertrude's parents were Anna Johnson and John Edward O'Connor. They were married in 1891 and had 17 (yes, 17) children. Four of those children are believed to have died shortly after birth. The children were, oldest to youngest, John, Joseph, Ella, Anna, Kathleen, Edna, Elizabeth, Harold, Gertrude, Evelyn, William, Dorothy and Rita.