St Joseph's Cemetery

My grand parents are buried there. Nice cemetery.

Pretty and surprisingly quiet for a cemetary that has been enveloped by the growth of Greater New York City. A visit would be useful for researchers into the late 19th Century little Russia culture of NYC. Many of the 1st and 2nd generation slavs who did well enough to escape the crush of the Bronx, settled in Yonkers and then were buried here. Headstones show the mutation of family names from slavic to anglicized spelling and pronunciation that was especially common during the first communist scare in the 1920's.