Green-Wood Cemetery
Section 119, Lots 600-603.
[NOTE: Most individuals buried here are not memorialized by any currently visible or legible stone or inscription. A list of lot residents, with burial dates, appears after the inscriptions.]
Seven stones stand here in a rectangular depression that was once a burial vault. The old vault was closed before 1900 and then demolished between 1955 and 1960, perhaps due to structural problems. Presumably, the old vault entrance identified the tomb as that of the CONGER family, but there were (and are) no individual memorial stones for anyone buried here before 1879. Inscriptions on all 7 currently standing stones follow.
INSCRIPTIONS
---Five stones in front row, left to right:
1
[The name is completely illegible, but the rest of the text is evidence that this is the grave of Mary McRea Conger Smyth.]
The remainder of the inscription follows:
Wife of the
Rev. Henry Mason Smyth
Born July 13th A.D. 1852
Died Novbr. 12th A.D. 1876
2
Arthur B. Conger
Born march 2nd 1854
Died Sept. 5th 1920
Mary Stockton his wife
Born Aug. 23rd 1856
Died Nov. 10th 1886
3
Mary Rutgers McRea Conger Vanamee
Sept. 27, 1883
Jan. 26, 1955.
4
Henry Rutgers Conger
Born Sept. 2, 1877
Died June 18, 1920
5
Clarence Rapelje Conger
Born March 13, 1851
Died January 22, 1911
And his wife
Margaret Lynch
Born February 14, 1852
Died March 29, 1912

Two stones in back row, left to right:
1
Herbert T. Conger
Born December 5, 1857,
Died March 9, 1931.
2
Frederic Panet Marshall Conger
Feb. 24, 1891 – Nov. 4, 1960
[NOTE: Elizabeth Gibbs Mallett, wife of Frederic Conger, was interred here Sept 6 1984 (the last burial in these lots), but her inscription was never done.
[NOTE: Burial list from online cemetery records, with burial dates, which may represent reburials after removal from previous graves. Asterisks indicate those 9 individuals who ARE memorialized by stone and inscription here. This list may be incomplete. Contact the cemetery for more complete information about this lot and its occupants at http://www.green-wood.com:
CONGER: Abram B, 5/26/1887; Albert Bogart, 2/9/1844; Albert, 3/29/1854; Anne H, 10/20/1857; *Arthur Bloomfield, 11/17/1920; Bayard Stockton, 9/11/1893; Caroline B, 11/23/1923; Catherine R, 3/29/1854; *Clarence R, 1/24/1911; Clarence R, 5/28/1964; Elizabeth M, 9/6/1984; *Frederic, 11/7/1960; Henry, 11/15/1856; *Henry Rutgers, 6/21/1920; *Herbert, 3/13/1931; John, 4/10/1851; John S, 1/31/1860; Laura Van Horn, 8/21/1861; *Margaret L, 4/1/1912; Mary Rutgers McRea, 5/26/1884; *Mary Stockton, 11/17/1920; and Sarah, 2/27/1858.
HEDGES: Catherine, 3/29/1854; Catharine Ann, 8/20/1891; Timothy, 8/11/1860.
ROBINSON: Catherine Rutgers Conger, 8/10/1868; and Leander V E, 3/13/1869.
SMYTH: *Mary McRea Conger, 4/18/1879.
VANAMEE: *Mary Rutgers McRea Conger, 8/8/1955.]

New Orleans Picayune 3/26/1851