{"id":843,"date":"2006-12-06T22:45:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/843\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T05:45:55","slug":"843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/843","title":{"rendered":"President Chester A. Arthur's Grave in Albany Rural Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris at the Genealogue<\/a> wrote about this year’s White House Christmas Ornament in honor of former president Chester A. Arthur .\u00a0 In particular, he wrote about how Peter Hess, the head of Albany Rural Cemetery, was outraged by the biographical information about President Arthur that accompanied the ornament.<\/p>\n

My Aunt Sophie Danko and her husband Clark Gibson are buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, as are my Step-Grandparents Samuel Bohok and Tekla Halaszyn, and I’ve visited their graves and the grave of Chester A. Arthur several times.<\/p>\n

Chester A. Arthur’s\u00c2\u00a0monument is the focal point of the part of Albany Rural Cemetery where he is buried:<\/p>\n

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In a previous article<\/a>, Chris wrote about the controversy about President Arthur’s birthplace .\u00a0 Officially, Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont in 1830, but the New York Times issue of 22 December 1880 speculated that he may have been born in Canada .\u00a0 This suggestion may be rooted in the fact that the border between Vermont and\u00c2\u00a0Lower Canada (which became Canada East in 1841 and\u00c2\u00a0the Province of Quebec in 1867)\u00c2\u00a0was rather porous, and families tended to move back and forth without much concern that they were crossing a border.<\/p>\n

Like Chester A. Arthur, my Aunt Sophie’s husband Clark was born in Fairfield, Vermont .\u00a0 I have not been able to locate a birth record for Clark to substantiate his date or place of birth, although the census records document that he lived in Fairfield when he was young .\u00a0 Clark’s grandparents were born in\u00c2\u00a0Lower Canada\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0their children were born alternately in New York and Canada East .\u00a0 The family finally moved to Fairfield, Vermont, where Clark was born.<\/p>\n

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Gibson Monument in Albany Rural Cemetery<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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