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St. Mary's Cemetery
Fort Johnson, Montgomery County, New York

St. Mary's Cemetery, Fort Johnson, NY

GPS: 42.95772, -74.22777

39 E Main St.
Fort Johnson, NY 12070

Published: March 12, 2022
Total records: 1

Location: St. Mary's Cemetery is located up on a bluff, on the north side of Main St. and along the east side of Lepper Rd (County Rd 20).

St. Mary's Cemetery is owned by St. Mary's Church of Amsterdam, NY. The present-day St. Mary's Cemetery was established in 1891. Prior to that, the church had used a cemetery in the southern portion of Amsterdam, on the other side of the Mohawk River, directly underneath where State Highway 5S now runs.

When the State began building Highway 5S in the early 1950s, workers discovered the cemetery when they accidentally unearthed some 30 bodies. Floyd Sorrentino, an Albany undertaker, was hired to disinter every body and reinter their remains at the present-day St. Mary's Cemetery. A total of 2,830 bodies were removed. According to the book, "St. Mary’s Parish A History" by Jackie Murphy, 770 of these remains were identified. She estimated another 2,000 remained unidentified.

Veterans Affairs Records

Cemetery records published below are for U.S. veterans interred at St. Mary's Cemetery. These records were acquired from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on February 15, 2022...

MCCONVILLE, Kevin J., b. 08/12/1954, d. 10/29/2001, US ARMY, SP4