Albany Rural Cemetery Burials

I wrote about the two, or one, Titanic survivors buried here in the last post.  I looked up the cemetery and found that Gilbert M. Tucker had been on Lifeboat No. 7 which was only half-filled.

But, there were other no=table burials at the cemetery including the 21st President of the United States, Chester A. Arthur and his wife.  Also: John Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren, General Philip Schuyler of the Continental Army, delegate to the Continiental Congress and later U.S. senator from New York.

John Canfield Spencer was Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury under President John Tyler.

Also, there are quite a few Civil War officers and two Medal of Honor winners from the war.



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