Purdy Family Vault
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Purdy Family Vault

Yorktown, Westchester County, New York, USA

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    Yorktown, New York, USA
    Coordinates: 41.26938, -73.80415
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Located at the rear of the driving range of the Mohansic Golf course is an underground burial crypt that is mostly obliterated. A high wooden fence was erected to contain the golf balls from the driving range. In 1946 the grounds keeper was directed to enter th vault and gather up the remains found on planks laid over sawhorses. He found the remains of about four people which were later re-interred in Amawalk Hill cemetery.

In 1802 Andrew Pur (1767-1842) deeded a small plot to the supervisor of the town of Yorktown in trust for the Purdy family. In 1907 he State of New York ruled that act illegal and Pu descendants sold the land to New York for a military school, however the old Purdy estate was acquired by Westches County and became part of the new Mohansic park golf course.

Interred in the crypt were:
Andrew Purdy his wife Aner,(1765-1858) daughter in law Esther (1793-1873) wife of Isaac, his grandchild Antoinette Horton (1831-1866), daughter Jane Purdy (1807-1881) and her husband Harry Haight (1805-1888).
The information was gathered by Yorktown Historian Monica Dougherty in 1994 and found in "Cemeteries of Westchester County" Westchester County Historical Society 2011
Amended by Purdy family friend Gene Baumwoll CSW






Located at the rear of the driving range of the Mohansic Golf course is an underground burial crypt that is mostly obliterated. A high wooden fence was erected to contain the golf balls from the driving range. In 1946 the grounds keeper was directed to enter th vault and gather up the remains found on planks laid over sawhorses. He found the remains of about four people which were later re-interred in Amawalk Hill cemetery.

In 1802 Andrew Pur (1767-1842) deeded a small plot to the supervisor of the town of Yorktown in trust for the Purdy family. In 1907 he State of New York ruled that act illegal and Pu descendants sold the land to New York for a military school, however the old Purdy estate was acquired by Westches County and became part of the new Mohansic park golf course.

Interred in the crypt were:
Andrew Purdy his wife Aner,(1765-1858) daughter in law Esther (1793-1873) wife of Isaac, his grandchild Antoinette Horton (1831-1866), daughter Jane Purdy (1807-1881) and her husband Harry Haight (1805-1888).
The information was gathered by Yorktown Historian Monica Dougherty in 1994 and found in "Cemeteries of Westchester County" Westchester County Historical Society 2011
Amended by Purdy family friend Gene Baumwoll CSW






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