{{Short description|Historic cemetery at Fordham University}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use American English|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox cemetery | name = Fordham University Cemetery | map_type = | established = {{start date|1847}} | type = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] | graves = 138 | location = [[Fordham University]],<br />[[The Bronx]], [[New York City]] | findagraveid = 2595027 | image = Cemetery at Fordham University.jpg | coordinates = {{Coord|40|51|48|N|73|53|09|W|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | alt = Grave markers of Fordham Cemetery | caption = Fordham University Cemetery in 2017 }} '''Fordham University Cemetery''' is a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] cemetery on the campus of [[Fordham University]] in [[the Bronx]]. Established in 1847, it was moved to its current location in 1890. The last burial occurred in 1909. The cemetery holds 138 graves, 124 of which contain the remains of [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]]. The remainder were others associated with Fordham University or the Jesuit order.
== History == A cemetery was established on the eastern part of the campus of St. John's College (later Fordham University), with the first burial in the cemetery occurring on July 11, 1847. This part of the campus was seized in 1889 by the City of New York under the [[New Parks Act]] to create the [[New York Botanical Garden]]. The three [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] buried there were removed to a vault in [[Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx)|Saint Raymond's Cemetery]].<ref name="universityhistory" /> In 1890, a new cemetery was established within the campus [[vineyard]],<ref name=cemeteryproject>{{Cite web|url=https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/jesuit-cemetery-fordham-university/|title=Jesuit Cemetery, Fordham University|last=French|first=Mary|date=April 4, 2016|website=New York City Cemetery Project|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007123527/https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/jesuit-cemetery-fordham-university/|archive-date=October 7, 2019|access-date=January 1, 2019}}</ref> next to the college church (later [[Fordham University Church]]). Seventy-five remains were transferred there, 61 of them Jesuits, nine students, three [[Seminary|seminarians]], and two workmen. The last burial in the cemetery occurred in 1909.<ref name=universityhistory>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/27396/archives_and_special_collections/10580/fordham_university_history/2|title=Fordham University History: Fordham Cemetery|website=Fordham University Libraries|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101023145/https://www.fordham.edu/info/27396/archives_and_special_collections/10580/fordham_university_history/2|archive-date=January 1, 2020|access-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
St. John's College officially became Fordham University in 1907.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fordham.edu/info/25693/our_story|title=Our Story|website=Fordham University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110130155/https://www.fordham.edu/info/25693/our_story|archive-date=January 10, 2017|access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref> In the early 1950s, the gate to the cemetery was moved from the southern side to the northern, and a brick wall was built to enclose the southern side. In 1959, the remains of 38 Jesuits were relocated within the cemetery to allow for the construction of Faber Hall to the southeast.<ref name="universityhistory" /> Eventually, the original [[marble]] gravestones had deteriorated, and the cemetery had become an eyesore. Some students erroneously believed that the cemetery was a "phantom cemetery" that contained no graves.<ref name="cemeteryproject" /> In 1999, the gravestones were replaced with low-profile [[granite]] markers.<ref name="universityhistory" />
In 2000, a commemorative plaque was erected at the cemetery. It reads:<ref name="universityhistory" />
{{Poemquote|text=IN THEIR HOPE OF RESURRECTION HERE LIE THE REMAINS OF 124 SONS OF ST. IGNATIUS LOYOLA: 68 JESUIT PRIESTS; 44 JESUIT BROTHERS; 12 JESUIT SCHOLASTICS; 77 OF THEM HAD ASSIGNMENTS TO FORDHAM. OTHERS BURIED IN THE SAME CEMETERY FOR WHOM AND WITH WHOM THE JESUITS LABORED ARE: 3 DIOCESAN SEMINARIANS, 9 STUDENTS, AND 2 COLLEGE WORKMEN. MAY THEY REST IN THE PEACE OF CHRIST. Fr. Thomas Hennessy, S.J. February 7, 2001|char=|sign=|title=|source=}}
== Notable interments == * [[Patrick F. Dealy]], 11th president of St. John's College<ref name=whosburied>{{Cite news|url=https://digital.library.fordham.edu/digital/collection/RAM/id/13489|title=Who's Buried at Fordham?|last=Fetterhoff|first=Bob|date=November 4, 1976|work=[[The Fordham Ram]]|access-date=January 1, 2019|page=2}}</ref> * [[Alphonsus J. Donlon]], 36th president of [[Georgetown University]]<ref name=donlon>{{Cite journal|ref={{harvid|Woodstock Letters|1926}}|date=October 1, 1926|title=Obituary: Father Alphonsus J. Donlon|url=https://jesuitonlinelibrary.bc.edu/?a=d&d=wlet19261001-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|url-status=live|journal=[[Woodstock Letters]]|volume=LV|issue=3|pages=357|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181208225255/https://jesuitonlinelibrary.bc.edu/?a=d&d=wlet19261001-01.2.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|archive-date=December 8, 2018|access-date=December 8, 2018|via=Jesuit Online Library}}</ref> * [[William Moylan]], 9th president of St. John's College<ref>{{Cite news|date=1891-01-15|title=Obituary: The Rev. William Moylan|page=3|newspaper=[[The Sun (New York City)|The Sun]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77157541/obituary-the-rev-william-moylan/|access-date=2021-05-06|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> * [[Samuel Mulledy]], 21st president of Georgetown University<ref name=mulledy>{{Cite speech|title=Jesuits Come to Yorkville|url=https://www.stignatiusloyola.org/pdf/other_files/Sesquicentennial%20Mass%20Homily.pdf|access-date=June 25, 2019|first=Walter F.|last=Modrys|date=October 30, 2016|location=Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York|event=Sesquicentennial Mass: Homily|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190625034702/https://www.stignatiusloyola.org/pdf/other_files/Sesquicentennial%20Mass%20Homily.pdf|archive-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref> * [[Augustus Thébaud]], 5th and first Jesuit president of St. John's College<ref name="rumors">{{Cite news|url=https://fordhamram.com/13160/news/despite-popular-legend-graveyard-has-bodies/|title=Rumors Swirl Above Campus Graveyard|last=Laird|first=Alexandra|date=September 24, 2014|work=[[The Fordham Ram]]|access-date=January 1, 2019|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101035251/https://fordhamram.com/13160/news/despite-popular-legend-graveyard-has-bodies/|archive-date=January 1, 2020}}</ref>
== See also == * [[Campuses of Fordham University]]
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