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<<=== Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Valhalla, New York was opened around the time of World War I. The Foy sisters purchased a plot when Luke Foy died in 1920, with the understanding that any of them or any other unmarried sisters had the right to be buried there. Buried in this plot are: Luke
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<<=== The Mullin family purchased the plot directly behind the Foy plot sometime before Michael Mullin died in 1925. They allowed Polly Goetz, a very close friend to be buried there, as well as the Sinkos, father and mother-in-law of Agnes Gillen Sinko. |
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photo 17 October 2005
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photo 17 October 2005
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This tower was designed by James Renwick, who designed Saint Patrick's Cathedral in NYC. His rather grandiose plan for Gate of Heaven Cemetery was never completed, but the tower remains. Tom and Jane O'Grady lie about four tablets down from the tower. John Prendergast is buried in the same area ===>> |
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<<=== Frank O'Grady was the eldest son of Thomas and Jane Foy O'Grady. He purchased this plot at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla NY when he and his wife Peggy had a stillborn child.
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Gate of Heaven, Valhalla NY
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<<=== John Prendergast came from a family in lower Garryedmond. Peter Foy and Mary Mullin insisted he attend evening college, and he became an important auditor for McKesson Robbins pharmaceutical company. John remained unmarried. Josephine White handled the funeral arrangements ===>>
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Delia and Tilly Foy are buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Valhalla, New York ===>>
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Mary Foy Long was born in New York, the daughter of Michael Foy and Mary Curran from Knockatober. She had two children: Robert and Mary Lynn. Her aunts, Tilly Foy and Delia Foy also came to the US and are buried also in Gate of Heaven. See family tree branches under early foy for further information ===>>
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<<=== Patrick and Susan Foy are buried in Saint John's Cemetery, Queens NY, Sec 21 L 409-410. This photo was taken before their first son, Patrick Joseph Foy was buried there in 1999.
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Apr 2005
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<<=== Peter Smith, husband of Fiona Concannon, died in an accident 10 May 2003
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Thomas Morley married three times, but his wives are buried elsewhere: Calvary in Queens NY, St Raymond's in Bronx NY and Gate of Heaven, in Hanover, NJ. He was buried in a single grave in Gate of Heaven, Valhalla NY, so that his only daughter, Mary Foy, could visit the grave more often. ===>> |
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On 12 July 2006 a level 2 tornado swept through Westchester and impacted Gate of Heaven Cemetery. The family tombstones remained intact, but many trees were uprooted and other tombstones were toppled. ===>> |
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<<=== Jack Morley remained single, but provided that his nephews and niece, the Concannons, take over his grocery market on Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers NY . Michael Morley remained single, and encouraged his nephew, Michael Morley, to take over his grocery store on Lake Avenue in Yonkers. Young Michael has added a restaurant and catering business. Jack and Mike are buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Yonkers
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<<=== As we drive from the Foy/Mullin sites up the cemetery hill, we pass by Babe Ruth's monument. Other famous persons buried in Gate of Heaven are Jimmy Cagney and Anna Held (Flo Ziegfield's wife). |
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Peter Aloysius Foy (1922-1964) attended Jesuit Regis High School in New York City, then Farmingdale Agricultural School on Long Island and Cornell NY Agricultural School where he met and married Ruth Brown.. The couple set up farming in Cortland NY, but soon moved to Livonia NY, south of Rochester ===>> |
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The couple attended St. Michael Church. Later a new church, St. Joseph , was built in Livonia and Saint Michael Cemetery is now supervised by the new parish.===>> |
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Photo 23 June 2007 |
>>=== Peter and Ruth rented, and eventually purchased a large farm from a Mr. Davis, an extensive landowner who wanted young, educated farmers to continue his farm. St. Michael Cemetery was a small rectangle cut into the farm near the road. Later Peter and Ruth donated land around the original cemetery, more than doubling its size. Standing in the cemetery are Eilelen Foy Hynes, her husband Kenny, and Peter Joseph Foy, recently of Agoura Hills CA |
Photo 23 June 2007 |
<<=== The portion of the land beyond the road was donated to the cemetery by the Foys. Peter and Ruth's tombstone is to the extreme left cente, out of this photo. |
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