Anna Apollonia Trillich Knatz purchased a plot in Lutheran Cemetery at 67-29 Metropolitan Avenue in Middle Village (Queens) New York in 1886 and moved her three children who had been buried elsewhere to this plot. This was where she buried her husband August Knatz the following year. Her deed to the plot was dated Mary 5, 1886. Anna purchased Lot 10493 which is located in area Map 3A, When I first visited the cemetery, there was only one marker- that said mother and father. But there were fresh flowers on that marker. My Irish Aunt Evelyn went back to the cemetery to get the interment list. While she was there she was able to look into the book and see a name she quickly memorized and sent me that belonged to a woman names Laura Malloy (a descendant of the Conrad Knatz family. The deed has passed down through Laura Knatz Malloy of the Conrad Knatz family to Diane Taylor. The interment list revealed there were 17 family members buried in the plot. The plot used to have a metal railing around it which was removed, probably to make it easier to mow the grass. When my father died in 2008, I had a obelisk style monument made for the plot to recognize the three generations of Knatz’s in my direct line that were buried in the plot from the Knatz immigrant ancestor August born in 1836 and his wife to his son, Charles and his wife Annie to my father Charles Henry Knatz. My father was the 18th person to be interred in the plot. I wrote to Laura Malloy, waited a year and got not answer so wrote again. She finally responded. Laura said she would send me some old letters she had. I waited outside by the mailbox. They were written from Niedenstein, August’s home in Hessen Germany and Forst, Anna Apollonia’s home in Bavaria, Germany to New York where my immigrant ancestors were living. These were significant clues to our family history. Directions to the plot and a list of family members enterred there is given below.
