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Graves Unite American Indian, WTC Victim PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 05 July 2005
Graves Unite American Indian, WTC Victim
By LARRY McSHANE, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jul 4, 2005
Yahoo news

NEW YORK, NY - During a decade of tending the grounds at Green-Wood Cemetery, Isaac Feliciano learned the sad tale of the American Indian princess buried on a slope overlooking Sylvan Lake and the heartbroken husband she left behind.

The story of Do-Hum-Me, a sensation in the mid-19th century, is rarely recalled anymore. But honoring her life became important to Feliciano following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which claimed his own wife. Now, he is donating thousands of dollars in his wife's memory to spruce up the Indian princess' grave.

Do-Hum-Me was the daughter of a Sac Indian chief, raised in what later became Iowa by a single parent after her mother's untimely death. She came east with her father, Chief Nan-Nounce-Rush-Ee-Tol, to represent the Sacs in treaty negotiations.

She married a young man from another tribe and became an instant sensation in P.T. Barnum's American Museum — only to die tragically five weeks later, felled in 1843 by a deadly infection at age 18.

She was buried at the Brooklyn cemetery, her grave marked by a magnificent marble monument bearing a sculpture of her weeping husband.

While Feliciano tended the resting places of Green-Wood's 600,000 occupants, his wife, Rosa Maria Feliciano, worked in Manhattan, on the 96th floor of the World Trade Center's north tower.

The 30-year-old woman was at her desk when a plane hit the tower, and Feliciano had her buried in Green-Wood. He was left with two young daughters.

Earlier this year, the cemetery set out to raise funds to restore Do-Hum-Me's monument, which had become eroded, pitted and stained, but only $410 was raised.

Then Feliciano decided to honor the memory of his own wife by saving the one created for the princess: He put up $4,500 in Rosa's memory to restore the site.

"He was thinking of his wife," said Green-Wood President Richard Moylan. "She, like Do-Hum-Me, was a young bride. And she died young."

Do-Hum-Me was recalled as "ever gentle and good-humored, the idol of her father and the favorite of her tribe" in an 1847 history of Green-Wood. Her father showered her with attention and affection — "no sacrifice (was) too great to be endured for her," according to "Green-Wood Illustrated."

"She was an overnight sensation," said Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman. "She was the 19th century version of the '15 minutes of fame.' She was invited to all the hot soirees. She was like a comet through society, and then she was gone."

After making his donation in April, Feliciano was stunned when the city medical examiner's office identified more of his wife's remains, cemetery officials said. He took a leave of absence and has refused to speak about the situation or his contribution.

Brooklyn's sprawling Green-Wood Cemetery, founded in 1838, is the final resting place of such notables as composer Leonard Bernstein, newspaperman Horace Greeley, "Wizard of Oz" actor Frank Morgan and corrupt politician "Boss" Tweed.

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Green-Wood: http://www.green-wood.com
 
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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

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From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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