Washington Cemetery
Encyclopedia
Washington Cemetery is a cemetery
in Mapleton, Brooklyn
. Prominent people buried there include Jerry Sterner
, Lilyan Tashman
, and Jack Zelig
.
Cemetery
A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...
in Mapleton, Brooklyn
Mapleton, Brooklyn
Mapleton is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. Mapleton is sometimes mixed up with Bensonhurst or Borough Park According to the website of Public School 48, The Mapleton School, the area was originally part of Borough Park and developed around 1913-1919...
. Prominent people buried there include Jerry Sterner
Jerry Sterner
Jerry Sterner was an American businessman and playwright, best known for the play Other People's Money.Born in the Bronx, he sold tokens on the night shift where he wrote several plays. In 1966 he married Jean Sterner...
, Lilyan Tashman
Lilyan Tashman
Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'...
, and Jack Zelig
Jack Zelig
"Big" Jack Zelig was a Jewish American New York City gangster and one of the last leaders of the Monk Eastman Gang.-Early years & the Eastmans:...
.