324 The Story of The Bronx 



St. Raymond's Cemetery is a Roman Catholic burying- 

 ground, incorporated in 1878, and situated on the Fort Schuyler 

 Road on Throgg's Neck, near the Eastern Boulevard. It 

 at first comprised thirty-six acres, but has since been increased 

 by fifty more. The number of burials to January 1, 1912, is 

 53,000, nearly all of inhabitants of the Borough. The prop- 

 erty was formerly a part of the Ferris estate, though the 

 cemetery company bought from a Mrs. Underhill. In opening 

 some of the graves in the eastern part of the grounds great 

 quantities of shells have been thrown out, showing that this 

 was formerly a feasting place of the Indians. 



