http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/gothams-only-black-millionaire/?ref=opinion&_r=0
Lived at 68 East 29th Street NY NY. He was 67 years old.
When Hamilton died in May 1875, obituaries called him the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million today.
He and his wife Eliza Jane Morris had nine children, the first one when she was 14 years old. Here is the list of the family members who are buried with them in Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn:
Miranda (1835-1895), Evelina (1842-1927),Theodore 1850-1911, Josephine (1854-1926) and Walter 1854-1913, Cora (1855-1855) and Jane (1855-1857), and Camilla (1857-1862).
Adelaide (1847-1918) is not buried with them.
Eliza Jane's mother, Margaret Morris (1793-1868) and her brother George H. Morris (1820-1873) rest with them too.
Name Jerimiah G Hamilton
Date of interment May 22, 1875
Lot number (of current burial site) 14972
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Birthplace West Indies
Marital status Married
Age at death 67 years
Late residence 122 East 29th, New York
Place of death New York
Cause of death Pneumonia
Date of death May 19, 1875
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director J V Cantrell
Burial Registry Volume 23
Burial Registry Page 66
Interment Number 175401
Lived at 68 East 29th Street NY NY. He was 67 years old.
When Hamilton died in May 1875, obituaries called him the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million today.
He and his wife Eliza Jane Morris had nine children, the first one when she was 14 years old. Here is the list of the family members who are buried with them in Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn:
Miranda (1835-1895), Evelina (1842-1927),Theodore 1850-1911, Josephine (1854-1926) and Walter 1854-1913, Cora (1855-1855) and Jane (1855-1857), and Camilla (1857-1862).
Adelaide (1847-1918) is not buried with them.
Eliza Jane's mother, Margaret Morris (1793-1868) and her brother George H. Morris (1820-1873) rest with them too.
Name Jerimiah G Hamilton
Date of interment May 22, 1875
Lot number (of current burial site) 14972
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Birthplace West Indies
Marital status Married
Age at death 67 years
Late residence 122 East 29th, New York
Place of death New York
Cause of death Pneumonia
Date of death May 19, 1875
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director J V Cantrell
Burial Registry Volume 23
Burial Registry Page 66
Interment Number 175401
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/gothams-only-black-millionaire/?ref=opinion&_r=0
Lived at 68 East 29th Street NY NY. He was 67 years old.
When Hamilton died in May 1875, obituaries called him the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million today.
He and his wife Eliza Jane Morris had nine children, the first one when she was 14 years old. Here is the list of the family members who are buried with them in Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn:
Miranda (1835-1895), Evelina (1842-1927),Theodore 1850-1911, Josephine (1854-1926) and Walter 1854-1913, Cora (1855-1855) and Jane (1855-1857), and Camilla (1857-1862).
Adelaide (1847-1918) is not buried with them.
Eliza Jane's mother, Margaret Morris (1793-1868) and her brother George H. Morris (1820-1873) rest with them too.
Name Jerimiah G Hamilton
Date of interment May 22, 1875
Lot number (of current burial site) 14972
show more
Birthplace West Indies
Marital status Married
Age at death 67 years
Late residence 122 East 29th, New York
Place of death New York
Cause of death Pneumonia
Date of death May 19, 1875
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director J V Cantrell
Burial Registry Volume 23
Burial Registry Page 66
Interment Number 175401
Lived at 68 East 29th Street NY NY. He was 67 years old.
When Hamilton died in May 1875, obituaries called him the richest black man in the United States, possessing a fortune of $2 million, or in excess of $250 million today.
He and his wife Eliza Jane Morris had nine children, the first one when she was 14 years old. Here is the list of the family members who are buried with them in Greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn:
Miranda (1835-1895), Evelina (1842-1927),Theodore 1850-1911, Josephine (1854-1926) and Walter 1854-1913, Cora (1855-1855) and Jane (1855-1857), and Camilla (1857-1862).
Adelaide (1847-1918) is not buried with them.
Eliza Jane's mother, Margaret Morris (1793-1868) and her brother George H. Morris (1820-1873) rest with them too.
Name Jerimiah G Hamilton
Date of interment May 22, 1875
Lot number (of current burial site) 14972
show more
Birthplace West Indies
Marital status Married
Age at death 67 years
Late residence 122 East 29th, New York
Place of death New York
Cause of death Pneumonia
Date of death May 19, 1875
Diagram available (see digital image) false
Lot owner? false
Undertaker / Funeral Director J V Cantrell
Burial Registry Volume 23
Burial Registry Page 66
Interment Number 175401
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