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 | | This cemetery was established in 1849, when Father McDonough, who was then pastor of St. James's Church, in Jay street, purchased so seventeen acres of ground in the village of Flatbush for the purpose of a burial ground. |
 | | Immediately surrounding the church is the most attractive part of the cemetery to be found, for it is here that, as evidenced by the piles of monumental marble which surround it on all sides, are the graves of the wealthiest and best known classes of the Catholic community. |
 | | In 1897, the first year of the consolidation, the Union Cemetery, right in the heart of a congested district of the ward, was sold, and the bodies were removed to Cedar Grove Cemetery. |
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