Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Paul C Robillard (1946-1947)

Personal data Paul C Robillard 

• He was born on November 28, 1946 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Verenigde Staten.Sources 2, 3

  Birth for Paul Clement Robillard-Age at death 4 month-Date:30 Mar 1947 @10:50am. Paul Succumbed to spinal meningitis. Meningitis is a term used to describe an inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain or the spinal cord.

• He died on March 30, 1947 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, Verenigde Staten.Sources 2, 3

  Cause of death was spinal meningitis

• A child of Alfred Louis Robillard and Josephine Clementine Conk

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Notes about Paul C Robillard

Holy Cross Cemetery
(Catholic) 3620 Tilden Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203,
(718) 284-4520

This is from Henry Stiles' History of Brooklyn published in 1880:
FLATBUSH CEMETERY
A Roman Catholic cemetery, otherwise known as the Cemetery of the Holy
Cross, which differs from Greenwood in this principal particular, that
while in Greenwood persons of all religious shades of belief may be
interred, in the Holy Cross cemetery none but those who die in the Catholic
faith are buried. This cemetery was established in 1849, when Father
McDonough, who was then pastor of St. James's Church, in Jay street,
purchased so seventeen acres of ground in the village of Flatbush for the
purpose of a burial ground. Previous to the purchase of this ground the
Roman Catholics had used a portion of ground set apart by the government
near the Navy Yard for the use of all denominations, and when the present
ground was bought, the remains of nearly two thousand five hundred
Catholics who had been interred in
the old ground, were removed to it for burial. Since the first purchase
nineteen additional acres have been added, making in all thirty-six acres,
of which sixteen are already occupied, and at the average rate of burials
now, which is about sixty per week, the remainder of the ground will be
sufficient for twenty years longer. The cemetery, as before stated, is
owned by the church, and while, as in all Catholic cemeteries, there is a
portion set apart for the burial of' those whose relatives are too poor to
pay for a plot of ground, the remainder of the ground is divided into plots
containing, respectively, room for two or four graves; which are purchased
from the sexton of the Cathedral in Jay street, and when so purchased,
become for burial purposes the absolute property of the purchaser.

Instead of the undulating succession of hills and valleys which make the
appearance of Greenwood so picturesque, Flatbush cemetery presents a
surface as level from one end to another as an Illinois prairie. From the
main entrance a broad carriage-way leads to the chapel, a frame building
some thirty-five by fifty feet, with A small tower, in which a clergyman,
attached to the cemetery and surrounding district, is always in attendance,
and when a funeral enters the cemetery, unless it be that of a very young
child, thecoffin is borne into this chapel, and the mourners unite with the
priest in reciting the prayers of the church for the repose of the soul of
the dead, after which the body is interred. Immediately surrounding the
church is the most attractive part of the cemetery to be found, for it is
here that, as evidenced by the piles of monumental marble which surround it
on all sides, are the graves of the wealthiest and best known classes of
the Catholic community. Close by the church is the grave of the Rev. Father
McDonough, the founder of the cemetery, who died in 1853. A plain and
somewhat time-worn marble slab records the fact. In the same row are two
similar slabs covering the last resting places of Father Schneller, the
former pastor of St. Paul's church in Court street, and Father Curran,
formerly pastor of the Roman Catholic church in
Astoria. All the monuments in the immediate vicinity of the chapel are of
the most beautiful and some of them of the most costly character.
At Flatbush, also, is the Potter's field, connected with the county institutions.
(Thanks to Michael Cassidy)

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