Unusual for her time, Elizabeth Schuyler was almost years old when she died. Another Schuyler sister is buried in Trinity Churchyard. Angelica Schuyler was a well-known socialite in her day and even had a town named for her in upstate New York. She involved herself deeply in political manners, having exchanged various letters with Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and Marquis de Lafayette.
Trinity Church is also the final stop on our self-guided walking tour of Hamilton landmarks. Wall Street is named after an actual wall. No, really. Also, Hamilton did legal work on behalf of the church. He died the next day, July 12th, at the home of his close friend William Bayard after receiving final rites from the rector of Trinty Church.
Hamilton's body was then moved to the home of his brother-in-law John Church on Park Place. Alexander Hamilton was buried in the graveyard of Trinity Church, likely near his oldest son Philip, who was killed in a duel in on the same spot where his father was mortally wounded.
Official website : Trinity Wall Street. Visitors can tour inside Trinity Church and the attached churchyard where Alexander Hamilton and his wife and their first son Philip are buried.
The final farewell to Hamilton was extremely well attended; it probably helped that New York City declared July 14 a city-wide day of mourning. The large tomb, topped with an urn at each corner and an obelisk in the middle, was donated in by the Society of the Cincinnati, a Revolutionary War fraternal group of which Hamilton was President General. It seems obelisks were a common theme for memorializing Hamilton.
Sadly, the monument was repeatedly vandalized, including by souvenir hunters chipping away pieces to add to their collections. By , it was completely gone except for a plaque. Hamilton's funeral procession from the Church home to Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan. Thousands of people showed up for Hamilton's funeral procession on July 14, to mourn his passing. Explore This Park.
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