Cedar Lawn Cemetery Explained

Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedar Lawn Cemetery officially opened in September 1867, and recorded its first burial on September 27, 1867.

Location

Cedar Lawn is located on a multi-acre plot bordered by Lakeview Avenue (CR 624), Crooks Avenue, I-80, and NJ-20; the plot is also home to the adjacent Calvary Cemetery, a Roman Catholic burial ground. Over 85,000 people are interned at Cedar Lawn.

History

During the Revolutionary War, the cemetery was farmland, owned by Annatje Von Riper, her son Henry Doremus, and Hessel Peterse. The British army plundered the three households on its march through New Jersey in November 1776.[1]

Noted interments

External links

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Notes and References

  1. Book: History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City): Historical – Genealogical – Biographical. Nelson. William. Shriner. Charles Anthony. 1920. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 215–216. en.
  2. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000505 Dow Henry Drukker profile
  3. Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. . Accessed May 1, 2011. "She maintained a close relationship with her son and inlater years, when her health was failing, lived with his family at Ailsa Farms in Haledon. She died there of bronchial pneumonia, at age 91, on January 8, 1941, and was buried at the Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson."
  4. Web site: Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker. 29 June 2004.
  5. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000175 Eugene Walter Leake
  6. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000005 Amos Henry Radcliffe
  7. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000911 James Fleming Stewart
  8. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2719898/GUELICH,%20ALLISON%20SHEIR