Cedar Lawn Cemetery

Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey, and is also considered one of the finest Victorian cemeteries in the USA. Cedar Lawn Cemetery officially opened in September 1867, and recorded its first burial on September 27, 1867. Cedar Lawn is located on a multi-acre plot bordered by Lakeview Avenue (CR 624), Crooks Avenue, I-80, and Route 20. It shares the plot with a Catholic cemetery and has over 85,000 interments on its grounds alone since its inception.

Stereoscopic Photo of the Entrance to Cedar Lawn Cemetery

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

References

  1. Nelson, William; Shriner, Charles Anthony (1920). History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City): Historical- Genealogical - Biographical. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. pp. 215–216.
  2. Dow Henry Drukker profile, United States Congress. Accessed July 16, 2007.
  3. Burstyn, Joan N. "Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women", p. 153. Syracuse University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1. 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. http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/general-information-17.html
  5. Eugene Walter Leake, United States Congress. Accessed August 9, 2007.
  6. Amos Henry Radcliffe, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed July 23, 2007.
  7. James Fleming Stewart, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 9, 2007.
  8. CWGC casualty record.

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