Binghamton History: Binghamton City Cemetery and Glenwood Cemetery

I first found out about the Binghamton City Cemetery when I was chatting on the air two years ago about famous graves in the Southern Tier.

Binghamton City Cemetery was were Eldredge Street is now. It was apparently in the way of progress and over thirteen-hundred bodies removed and re-interred at Glenwood Cemetery. It was a cruel eviction of the bodies of loved ones. The families had only a short time to find a new home for their relatives and received only a paltry ten dollars to do so.

The remains that were not claimed and moved were to be re-interred at Glenwood Cemetery. It's kind of macabre and mean if you ask me. Glenwood Cemetery was in massive disrepair at this time (around 1906-07). Sadly, it was that way for years.

So, if you want to visit a haunted place, go to Glenwood Cemetery, where the bodies on the evicted were placed (I am being kind). And, if you want to gaze upon a famous plot, see Ogarita Booth Henderson, the daughter of Lincoln assasinator John Wilkes Booth.

Former town supervisor Hulbert and his family are buried on the steep side near Ms. Henderson. Hulbert was charged with moving bodies from cemetery to cemetery and I am sure was a tortured soul over that.

Please remember to be respectful when visiting.