Gardens of Stone --- A Cemetery Blog by Alexandra Kathryn Mosca

  Joseph S. Carreau was a founding partner of Carreau and Snedeker, a NYSE member firm. Both Carreau and his first wife, Alys Sinclair, with whom he had two daughters, were born in 1900. Interestingly, Alys died in 1925, at the age of 25, and Joseph died at 72, in 1972.

  A cenotaph in Staten island's Moravian Cemetery memorializes Eberhard Faber. Although Faber is buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood, graves of many of Faber's family members, including his brother and his sons, are here. Faber was born into a family making pencils since 1761. In 1848, he moved to New York City, where he opened his first pencil factory on 42nd Street near the East River. Unfortunately, the factory was destroyed in a fire in 1872. The businessman built a larger factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was the first pencil manufacturer to put rubber erasers on his pencils. Although there is a cenotaph monument in his memory, his burial place is at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

    The parents of famed film director Martin Scorsese, whose hit films include Goodfellas and Gangs of New York, are entombed in a private mausoleum in Staten Island's Moravian Cemetery. Both parents, Catherine and Charles, had small roles in Goodfellas.