St. John's Burying Ground Held Victims of the 1832 Cholera Epidemic
Christina Rae Stanton notes that St. John's Burying Ground contained multiple waves of burials, including prominent families like the Roosevelts and Motts, stage actress Naomi Vincent, and mass graves of people who died in an 1832 cholera epidemic.
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“Another group of people that was buried in mass at St. John's were people who died in an 1832 cholera epidemic.”
Christina Rae Stanton
Heard on The Atlas Obscura Podcast — “10,000 Dead Bodies Beneath a NYC Park”, published Thursday, October 29, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.