Hoboken Cemetery
| Hoboken Cemetery | |
|---|---|
| Details | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40°47′17″N 74°01′31″W / 40.788157°N 74.025140°W |
| Find a Grave | Hoboken Cemetery |
The Hoboken Cemetery is located at 5500 Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States.[1] in the New Durham section. It was owned by the City of Hoboken.[2] Although appearing well groomed and cared when first arriving at the Hoboken Cemetery, just a short walk in any direction and you will find a different story.[3] It is bordered by Flower Hill Cemetery.[4] The Secaucus Junction was built on land that was partially the Hudson County Burial Grounds. The exhumed bodies were to be re-interred at the Hoboken Cemetery, but was later cancelled when the cemetery was found to have been recycling older full graves without tombstones and selling them as virgin plots. The cemetery said it has no record of any bodies being buried in those plots.[3][5][6]
Notable burials
- Oscar Louis Auf der Heide (1874–1945), mayor of West New York, New Jersey.
- Allan Langdon McDermott (1854–1908), US Congressman.
- Henry Otto Wittpenn (1871–1931), mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.[7]
- Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright (1812–1871), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1865–1867.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Hoboken Cemetery". Retrieved 2007-08-26.
- ^ http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v18-10.pdf
- ^ a b "Painful Discovery". The Bergen Record. January 29, 2000.
- ^ Van Winkle, Daniel (1923). History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923. Higginson Book Company. ISBN 0832850675.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ "Discovery stalls move of 3,000 remains". The Philadelphia Inquirer. August 9, 2003.
- ^ "New burial spot needed for remains". Bergen Record.
- ^ "H. Otto Wittpenn, Banker, is Dead". New York Times. July 26, 1931. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright biography, United States Congress. Accessed June 29, 2007.
External links
- Hoboken Cemetery at Graveinfo
- Hoboken Cemetery by Rob Bender
- Hoboken Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
- Hoboken Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Civil War gravestones in Hudson County