Monday, June 25, 2018

Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC

I just found this information on the Oak Hill Cemetery.  It answers some questions and raises others!


OAK HILL CEMETERY, Georgetown, D.C. (North Hill)
Lot 101




JOSEPH HYSSETT / died / July 13, 1849 / aged / about 33 years. / AMY HYSSETT / born / Dec. 4, 1819 / died / Nov. 6, 1893. / HYSSETT. // ANNIE GERTRUDE / born / Aug. 8, 1878 / died / March 2, 1880. / Infant son / born / June 14, 1887 / died June 14, 1887 / both children of / Nicholas and Sarah J. / Eckhardt.
Notes:  Amy Hyssett is, I believe, Amy Padgett, the half sister of my 3rd great grandmother, Mary Ann Tinkler Smith.  They had different fathers, same mother.  Their mother is Hannah Tinnkler, age 54, listed below.  Amy had another sister, Hannah, both being listed in the family Bible pages.  Until now, I had not been able to find any additional information on these two sisters.  So this was a great discovery!  I found her maiden name on FindaGrave, memorial #55104535. Because of Bible records and the fact that she is buried in the same lot as her mother and other family members, I believe this proves the relationship.

MARY I. LANDER / died / Aug. 1, 1897.  I think all the LANDER names should be LAUDER, per Bible records.  FindaGrave also lists this name as LAUDER.
This is Mary Isabela Tilden Vessey Lauder.


  ELIZA LANDER / died / July 31, 1881.  This is Eliza Riggles.

EMMA L. MEANY / 1861-1862. / 
FRANCES Jeanette MEANY / 1858-1870. / Daughter of John Meany and Fraces Lenetta Smith
ANNA SMITH / 1901, aged 2 month [sic].  daughter of Samuel T. Smith and Minnie Riggles Smith

FANNIE MEANY / 1832-1881. / MARY I. MEANY / 1863-1933.
In memory / of / MARY ANN / beloved wife of / T.H. Smith / born / April 21, 1827 / died / Jan. 15, 1887. / She lived not for herself, / but for others. / She hath done what she could.


[cross and crown] / RICHARD RIGGLES / Born at Lincolnshire / England / March 23, 1802 / Died in Washington,
D.C. / Feb. 5th 1880. / Gone but not forgotten. / Also his wife / MARY / Died Dec. 31, 1891 / Aged 81 years.


Removed from an unidentified location, 7 JUN 1859
Vessey, Leonard, age 38    
Vessey, Sarah, age 38 
Vessey, Thomas, age 6 
Tinkler, Samuel, age 48

Tinkler, Hannah, age 54 
Hyssett, Joseph 
Riggles, Jane, age 4

I believe the three Vesseys are a family unit.  Also, Samuel and Hannah Tinkler are husband and wife, parents of Mary Ann Tinkler Smith, wife of Thomas H. Smith, listed at the end of these listings.



Unmarked Burials:
Vessey, Margaret, age 25, bur. 16 DEC 1855
Vessey, John, age 35, bur. 22 MAR 1862 
Riggles, Eliza, age 10y3m, bur. 16 APR 1862
Vessey, Fanny C., age 1y6m23d, bur. 7 AUG 1862 
Vessey, Mary J., age 32, bur. 6 FEB 1863
Riggles, James, age 44, bur. 20 DEC 1863 
Vessey, Mary E., bur. 22 APR 1864
Smith, Elizabeth M., age 62, bur. 30 NOV 1867 
Hamner, Willie, age 10m13d, bur. 25 SEP 1868 
Vessey, Ruth Gertrude, age 1y7m, bur. 4 FEB 1873 
Vessey, Leonard, age 48, bur. 27 MAY 1877 
Lander, John W., age 5m, bur. 21 DEC 1884

Lander, Ethel, age 1m14d, bur. 1 AUG 1889 
Lander, Margaret M., age 7, bur. 7 SEP 1890 
Lander, Edward M., age 1y1m, bur. 2 DEC 1892 Hayward, 
Ruth I., age 25y6m, bur. 28 OCT 1895
Lander, Infant of J.W. and Mary I., stillborn, bur. 8 MAY 1896 
Hayward, Mary Ann, age 62, bur. 7 DEC 1901
Drechsler, Henry, age 45y11m, bur. 20 JUL 1904 
Hayward, John, age 81y11m1d, bur. 11 JAN 1911 
Beall, Infant of John A., stillborn, bur. 2 JUL 1918 
Vessey, John Thomas, age 55, bur. 27 AUG 1918
Smith, Thomas H., age 91, bur. 3 NOV 1926

I am still working on sorting out who is who and who belongs to whom, but it is a wealth of information!  I will update as I learn more.

I am also wondering if the people marked as being relocated in 1959 died in the cholera epidemic of 1848-1849 in Washington, DC.  Still trying to find more information on that.  I have had no luck tracking down information on who died in that epidemic.  Although Bible pages list Samuel and Hannah Tinkler as dying in 1844, I am wonderiing if perhaps there was a mis-reading of some other records.  In the 1850 census, their children are listed together, and Mary Ann is listed as age 21.  Somehow the children managed to stay together.  Amy Hyssett is also listed in two census records as living with Mary Ann, further strengthening my belief that they are family.



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