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88:, the Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Geissenhainer, the pastor of St. Paul's German Lutheran Church, conferred with representatives of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church (his prior parish). While St. Paul's decided against investing in this endeavor, St. Matthew's and Dr. Geissenhainer pursued the purchase of land in Queens in 1850. The parcels owned by St. Matthews and Dr. Geissenhainer were held and developed separately; he incorporated as the "Lutheran Cemetery" (although members of all faiths were accepted) on March 22, 1852. Additional acreage was purchased over the next few years, and the Lutheran Cemetery bought the St. Matthew's land in 1868. Burials at the Lutheran Cemetery started at $ 2.50, and plots could be obtained for $ 7.00. 794: 29: 149: 102:
Beginning in 2014, local news media ran stories questioning why some sections of the cemetery were in disrepair. One article described "Toppled monuments, sunken gravestones and shattered mausoleum windows..." The chairman of the cemetery's board of directors attributed such conditions to a lack of
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filed suit against the directors and officers of the cemetery, alleging that they had "exploited their positions at the Cemetery to draw fees, salaries, and loans from the Cemetery's charitable assets while ignoring their basic fiduciary obligation to manage the assets under their control for the
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In 2006, vandals allegedly toppled over or destroyed over 60 headstones, some of which the cemetery's president said weighed over 800 pounds (360 kilograms); he asserted that a group of mischievous teenagers had caused the damage and stated, "At first it seemed they were targeting
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benefit of the Cemetery and its property." The lawsuit followed investigations arising from an audit by the New York State Division of Cemeteries in 2014. As of February 2022, the case was still making its way through the legal process.
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the 45th U.S. president. Although the cemetery's website listed the grave as one it would show "upon request", Scovell was met with resistance from the cemetery's president, who accused her of criminal
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to incorporate and sell burial plots. Seeing an opportunity to provide a lower-cost alternative to existing cemeteries such as
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funds and state law restricting use of perpetual-care funds for upkeep of graves where the owners had not paid for such care.
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In 1990, the name was changed to All Faiths Cemetery "to show accommodation to ALL religious and non-religious patrons".
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mass memorial – commemorates the 1,021 victims of a 1904 disaster, 61 of whom are buried at the cemetery
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in 1990. Approximately 540,000 burials have been conducted at the cemetery since its founding.
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Verified Complaint. Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.
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pastor Frederick W. Geissenhainer, and incorporated in 1852. Originally named
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shared an attempt of hers to visit the headstone of real-estate developer
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Were the Trumps nestled between two Adolphs ... ?
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The following films have been shot at the cemetery:
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Index

All Faiths Chapel
All Faiths Cemetery
Middle Village
Queens
New York
Lutheran
Rural Cemetery Act
nonprofit organizations
Green-wood
Brooklyn
Jewish
Nell Scovell
Fred Trump
Donald Trump
elected
trespassing
Letitia James

General Slocum
PS General Slocum steamboat fire
John Kissel
John Herman George Vehslage
Frank T. Hopkins
Carrie Nye
William Johnston "Buffalo Bill" Hogg
Charley Jones
William G. Mank
William Koelpin
William Lord
Medal of Honor

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