Road Trip 2 - August 2 and June 21, 2015, two corrections and insights

I do not intend on a long post as I drove 7 hours (including parking lot traffic on I 278 in Brooklyn) and 7 hours back (with parking lot traffic at the last toll station on the New Jersey Turnpike) today.  That makes 2 trips, June 21, 2015 and today, August 2, 2015, both of which I discovered afterwards hay have had some chronologic significance.

First correction.  Mr. Gann is buried in the lot I numbered as 3, not lot 5:

I will fix the above and reissue it.

Second correction.  A scholar on Mr. Gann has kindly informed me that his Brooklyn address was 128 Fenimore Street, not 123.  The Brooklyn Daily article that I found was, apparently, a misprint because he has located 128 in several places.  

The gentleman interred in #4 as I've numerated and whom I will further research, had placed at the bottom right corner of his gravestone a round marker that read "Endowed" and a four digit number.  If there were a coordinated effort to construct this geometry, this may have been an endowment to create the conditions that Green-Wood Cemetery would be required to obey.

There are several other stones that are "above" the apex of the above triangle but they are all obscured by the "Great Tree."  For various subjective reasons, I believe they are properly excluded from the group of 12

The stones I have numbered 7, 10 and 12 form a visibly perfect diagonal….they form a visually perfect line.

To the left of the stone I have marked #1 is a stone.  I confirmed it is NOT in the line of the next 7 stones along that base line (stones 1-7)that are numbered.  And there are other reasons this stone is not a component of the 12.

But the exciting find for me was the last question on my list and involves the "Great Tree" that so rudely obscures the view of Lower Manhattan…the cradle of the birth of is Nation.  Given that I'm an accountant, I studied the leaves and bark of the Sycamore before the trip.  I believe it is a Sycamore.  My next door neighbor, a bit more nature savvy than myself, believes its a Live Oak.  He didn't see the trunk which was straight up and not gnarled and gangly.  'Time proves all things'….I'll submit it to others.  

That last question was, "are there any stones placed at the foot of the tree to indicate who placed it there."  When I wrote the question last week I didn't think there was a snowballs chance.  But, in wandering to re find Mr. Gann's lot, I did notice a small tree that had a dedication at the bottom.  So I had some hope.

I searched all around the base of the tree and there was nothing.  Failing, I decided to get a chip of bark and call it a day.  I looked up and that's when I saw it.  There was a screw protruding from the bark about 2 inches and a small, simple round tag.  Both appeared to be stainless steel but I could only get so close.  They were maybe 7 feet off the ground and I'm only 5'7" off the ground.  The round tag had written on it:

B19

42

My first thought was that it was a location in the Cemetery.  But there was a square stone nearby that, as others, marked section "T" as I recall.  So it didn't seem to be a section marker.  t believe it means "Born 1942."  Obviously, that new looking screw (it was a more contemporary hex insert screw as opposed to a phillips or straight) had been placed there in the contemporary period…say within the last 5 years.  Perhaps someone had endowed the Cemetery with a condition that such would occur?  Hmmm.  

But why 1942?  There was a gravestone next to the tree and I think I saw 1942 on it (I wasn't concentrating on that year at that juncture).  I'm sure there were several deceased persons of that date that might have planted that tree.

But there was one that is quite notable;  Mr. Gann purchased lot 37747 2 days after Sadie H. Gann passed….in 1942 and she was entered there only days later.

More to come including pictures.

Jim Ross