* Van Buren is reported to have attended the Dutch Reformed church in his home town of Kinderhook, New York[27], and while in Washington, services at St. John's Lafayette Square[28]. However, according to Steiner there is little evidence that he ever formally joined a church. Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.[21]
* His funeral was held at the Reformed Dutch Church in Kinderhook with burial in a family plot at the nearby church cemetery[29]
* Steiner lists Van Buren among those "presidents whose religious views are doubtful".