The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-11
OLD TRINITY CHURCH VAULT.

Opened for the First Time in Twenty
 six Years to Receive Leonard Lispen-
 ards Rescued Remains.
 For the first time in twenty-six years the Lispenard vault in old Trinity church was opened Monday and the re- mains of Leonard Lispenard, member of one of the oldest families of New York, who died more than one hundred years ago, were laid beside his rela- tives. When he died he was at his own request buried upon a favorite spot on his estate at New Rochelle, but the building up of that nelghborhood dis turbed his grave.
 Originally the vault was in Trinity graveyard, just behind the church, but when the chancel was enlarged 1t was built over the vault. A narrow pas sage gives access to it and other vaults, and down this the coffin of Leonard Lispenard was borne. Upon it was the inscriptions:
 Leonard Lispenard, son of Leonard Lispenard and Alice Rutgers his wife Born in 174S and died about 1900.
 His remains were first inferred in Mt, Aetna, near Davenport's Neck, New Rochelle, and disinterred by others, were removed to Trinity church in 1907 by the children of the late Lispenard Stewart.
 William R. Steward Lispenard Stew art and Frank s. Weatherbee were present. On either side were the en- frances to vaults of the Collisters, the Rogers, the Crugers and other families well known in old New York. The bones were reverently inspected, and then the lid of the coffin was fastened down. It was placed among the eoff1ns which for a century have held the oth- CT Lspenards, and the vault was se- curely sealed
 The remains of Leonard Lispenard were found on March on the Fisher estate in New Rochelle Some work men as they cut away rocky hill known 70 the children of the nelghbor- hood as Mount Aetna, came across a skull and bones and the rusted metal ornaments of coffin. They lay in a cavity hewn in the rock twenty inches deep, seven feet long by three feet wide, and marked by stone at it's head and foot. It was evident that q regular burial had taken place there, and the discovery of the grave was mentioned in the newspapers. Careful inquiries were made by the children of Lispenard Stewart of this city, and it was established that the tomb con- tained all that was left Of Leonard Lis penard, the brother of their great great t-grandfather. Arrangements were therefore made by them with Trinity church for the final deposit or the re- mains.
 The Lispenards are of Huguenot ex- traction. Antoine LBspanard fled from Rochelle, France, in 1869 to escape the persecution of his faith. After an ad- venturous career in northern New York he settled at New Rochelle in 1890 and built manor house at Daven- ports Neck, on what was afterward the old Iselin homestead. Leonard Lispenard was his great grandson. He was born in 174S, the eldest son of an- other Leonard Lispenard and Alice Rutgers. This other Leonard was a man of prominence in the colony, He owned the Rutgers farm, where now swarming thousands make Rutgers street and East Broadway one of the most densely populated spots upon the globe, and @ country house, then two i miles from the city where to-day Des- presses and Hudson streets join. Leon- ari and Lispenard streets cross the old Lispenard meadow from Broadway to the North river. Leonard Is an old family name, and the streets were called after the two Leonard Lspen- ards father and son.