Holy Cross Cemetery (Brooklyn)

Tilden Avenue Gate (February 2011)

Holy Cross Cemetery (Brooklyn) (German: Friedhof "Heiliges Kreuz") is an American cemetery in the Brooklyn borough of New York City .

The cemetery is located at the 3620 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush the Kings County Brooklyn and is part of the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn .

Known buried persons

Matthew T. Abruzzo (1889–1971), federal judge
John J. Bennett (1894–1967), lawyer and politician
Lucy Burns (1879–1966), suffragette and suffragette
Felix Campbell (1829–1902), politician
Louis Capone (1896–1944), mobster of Murder, Inc.
John Michael Clancy (1837-1903), politician
William E. Cleary (1849-1932), politician
Thomas H. Cullen (1868–1944), politician
John J. Delaney (1878-1948), politician
Daniel J. Griffin (1880–1926), politician
James J. Heffernan (1888–1967), politician
Gil Hodges (1924–1972), major league baseball player and manager
Denis M. Hurley (1843–1899), politician
Thomas Kinsella (1832-1884), politician
Ardolph Loges Kline (1858–1930), politician, member of the House of Representatives and New York Mayor
Thomas F. Magner (1860–1945), politician
James H. O'Brien (1860-1924), politician
Daniel O'Reilly (1838-1911), politician
Donald L. O'Toole (1902–1964), politician
John J. Rooney (1903-1975), politician
Andrew Lawrence Somers (1895–1949), politician
Michael F. Walsh (1894–1956), lawyer and politician