He expressed a desire in his will to be buried beside his mother, the central figure in his life, from which he had inherited his religious and social zeal, and who had predeceased him in 1873. Crerar's wish for his own memorial: "I ask that I be buried by the side of my honoured mother in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, in the family lot…I desire that a plain headstone, similar to that which marks my mother's grave, to be raised over my head." It is there that he rests. On the plain headstone is inscribed a fine Presbyterian epitaph: "A just man and one that feared God." 21. John had his wish, to be buried in the family plot at Greenwood Cemetery 3166, s.80.