Greenridge Cemetery keeps names and dates from two centuries of Saratoga Springs, New York. All around you are names and dates that trace local lives: Seymour Ainsworth (1821–1890) and Tabor B. Reynolds (1821–1901) share the year 1821 on their markers; George Sherman Batcheller (1837–1908) and George S. Bolster (1913–1989) mark chapters across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. You will notice artists and public figures listed together — Charles Brackett (1892–1969), Ellen Hardin Walworth (1832–1915), and Reuben H. Walworth (1788–1867) — their years carved plainly.
The cemetery holds unexpected pairs: William Leete Stone, Sr. (1792 or 1793–1844) and his son, William Leete Stone, Jr. (1835–1908); Lucretia Maria Davidson (1808–1825) and other early nineteenth‑century names. More recent burials you will pass include Clarence Dart (1920–2012) and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (1899–1992). Each stone records a span of years: births and deaths, sometimes two centuries on a single marker.
Stand quietly and read a few of those dates and names; the list of notable burials is long and exact. Notice the rows of headstones stretching across this quiet landscape.