Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 82, Joined Lots 3425 (background, with shrubbery), and 3467 (foreground, with stones).
[NOTE: Some burials here are not memorialized by any currently visible or legible stone or inscription. A list of lot residents, with burial dates, appears after the inscriptions.]
INSCRIPTIONS
---Back row of 5 stones, left to right:
1) Alonzo Hamilton
Only Son of S.S.C. and Margaret Robinson
Born in Manhattan Oct. 27, 1856
Died in Brooklyn Oct. 1, 1860.
[illegible tribute text at bottom of stone]t
2) To the memory of
David Howell
Son of David and Eliza A. Jackson
Who died April 18, 1842.
Aged 3 Years 10 Months and 26 days
3) Sacred to the Memory of
Eliza
Daughter of David and Eliza A. Jackson
Born July 22nd 1852
Died August 5th 1857
4) Capt. David Jackson
Born May 12, 1800,
Died Apr. 18, 1862.
"He was a good man."
5) Sacred to the Memory of
Eliza A. Wife of Capt. David Jackson
Who departed this life May 12th 1853.
Aged 47 years 3 months and [illegible]
---Middle row of 3 stones, left to right:
1) In Memory of
[illegible line of text]
James C. Light
Who departed this life
November 4th 1872
Aged 45 Years
_________ by all who knew him
2) Mattie W.
Wife of W. E. Simpson
Daughter of David and Eliza Jackson
1850 - 1892
3) William E. Simpson 1856 - 1919
---Three stones in front, left to right:
1) John C Copeland
2D LIEUT CO A
13 NYSM
HV QRTY
CIVIL WAR
1834
1903
2) William R.
Son of David and Eliza Jackson
1852 – 1895
3) Eva Simpson 1880- 1951
---Large fallen stone invisible beneath tree, left side of photo:
Sacred to the Memory of
Abraham Cotrel
Who died October 21st 1846
Aged 65 years, 9 months and 15 days
Also of Sarah
The Wife of Abraham Cotrel
Who departed this life
Dec. 22, 1819
Aged 32 years [rest of stone broken off and/or covered]
[NOTE: Burial list from online cemetery records, with burial dates, which may represent reburials after removal from previous graves. Asterisks indicate those buried without visible stone and/or legible inscription. This list may be incomplete. Contact cemetery for complete information about this lot at http://www.green-wood.com:
---Lot 3425
COPELAND: *Charles R, 5/1/1860; *Eleanor L, 12/23/1924; *Jennie E, 11/16/1873; John C, 6/17/1903; *Minnie, 3/10/1926; and *Nellie P, 11/11/1873.
COTREL: Abraham and Sarah, both moved and reinterred here 11/14/1850.
LANE: *Ellen, 11/9/1892; *Herman, 3/9/1913; *James Herbert, 10/9/1918; *Katie P, 3/24/1874; *Mary, 3/14/1922; *Minnie, 10/26/1866; *Robert L, 1/10/1895; *Thomas S, 8/20/1849; and *William H, 3/28/1894.
LIGHT: James C, 11/7/1872.
ROBINSON: Alonzo Hamilton, 10/6/1860; *Carrie H, 5/15/1868; and *Kitty S, 7/16/1864.
WRIGHT: *Child of William, 1/19/1875; *Joseph, 12/1/1889; *Margaret, 4/13/1888; *William H, 2/23/1860; and *William H, 5/23/1890.
---Lot 3467
JACKSON: *Bessie F, 10/11/1913; David Howell, 11/22/1849; David, 4/23/1862; Eliza, 8/8/1857; Eliza Ann, 5/14/1853; and William R, 8/25/1895.
SIMPSON: Eva H, 7/19/1951; Mattie W, 2/13/1892; and William, 7/14/1919.]

Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 82, Lot 3425
This stone was erected by the cemetery as part of its Civil War project. It is inscribed:
John C Copeland
2D LIEUT CO A
13 NYSM
HV QRTY
CIVIL WAR
1834
1903