Somerville Cemetery, Somerville
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Somerville Cemetery is in Somerville, New Jersey
. It is a general name commonly applied to two separately owned and administered cemeteries in Somerville, the "Old Cemetery" and the "New Cemetery".
"Old Cemetery", also sometimes referred to has "Old Raritan Cemetery" has the earliest burials, dating to just after the Revolutionary War. It began as the burying ground of the Dutch Reformed Church and later as the cemetery shared by several of the local church congregations. While a handful of burials are more recent, the majority are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
New Cemetery newcemetery.org is a nonsectarian cemetery owned and operated by the New Cemetery of Somerville Association. It was organized just after the Civil War as a nonsectarian burial ground, designed in the garden cemetery style. It is still an active cemetery. The first burials date from the post Civil War era, although a few earlier can be found, representing re-interments in newer, larger family plots.
Both cemeteries contain burials of persons of local,state, and national note, including many political figures and veterans from every war since the American Revolution. New Cemetery in particular has a large African American section, and many burials of US Colored Troop veterans of the Civil War era. Arabella W. Griffith Barlow, nurse of the US Sanitary Commission and wife of Civil War General Barlow is buried in Old Cemetery.
Somerville, New Jersey
Somerville is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 12,098. It is the county seat of Somerset County....
. It is a general name commonly applied to two separately owned and administered cemeteries in Somerville, the "Old Cemetery" and the "New Cemetery".
"Old Cemetery", also sometimes referred to has "Old Raritan Cemetery" has the earliest burials, dating to just after the Revolutionary War. It began as the burying ground of the Dutch Reformed Church and later as the cemetery shared by several of the local church congregations. While a handful of burials are more recent, the majority are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
New Cemetery newcemetery.org is a nonsectarian cemetery owned and operated by the New Cemetery of Somerville Association. It was organized just after the Civil War as a nonsectarian burial ground, designed in the garden cemetery style. It is still an active cemetery. The first burials date from the post Civil War era, although a few earlier can be found, representing re-interments in newer, larger family plots.
Both cemeteries contain burials of persons of local,state, and national note, including many political figures and veterans from every war since the American Revolution. New Cemetery in particular has a large African American section, and many burials of US Colored Troop veterans of the Civil War era. Arabella W. Griffith Barlow, nurse of the US Sanitary Commission and wife of Civil War General Barlow is buried in Old Cemetery.
New Cemetery
- Clifford P. CaseClifford P. CaseClifford Philip Case was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives and the State of New Jersey in the United States Senate .-Biography:Clifford P. Case was born in Franklin Park in Somerset County, New Jersey...
(1904–1982), American lawyer political figure, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1953) and United States Senate (1955–1979) as a Republican from the State of New JerseyNew JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. - Alvah A. ClarkAlvah A. ClarkAlvah Augustus Clark was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1877 to 1881. He was the first cousin of James N...
(1840–1912), represented in the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from 1877 to 1881. - William G. SteeleWilliam G. SteeleWilliam Gaston Steele was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district from 1861 to 1865....
, (1820–1892), represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional districtNew Jersey's 3rd congressional districtNew Jersey's Third Congressional District is currently represented by Republican Jon Runyan. It is a swing district, with a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+1. Former NFL player Republican Jon Runyan defeated John Adler in the 2010 House elections...
from 1861 to 1865.
Old Cemetery
- John Frelinghuysen (1727-1754)John Frelinghuysen (1727-1754)John Frelinghuysen was a minister in colonial New Jersey. -Biography:Frelinghuysen was the 2nd son of Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen , a German who had lived for a short time in Holland before emigrating in 1720. John married Dinah Van Bergh , and they had two children: Eva Frelinghuysen John...
, reverend. - George Houston BrownGeorge Houston BrownGeorge Houston Brown was an American Whig Party politician, who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853.-Biography:...
(1810–1865), (also known as George H. Brown) Member of New Jersey state senate from Somerset County, 1845; U.S. Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1851–53; associate justice of New Jersey state supreme court, 1861-65. - Isaac SouthardIsaac SouthardIsaac Southard was an Anti-Jacksonian member of the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1833, representing New Jersey at-large.-Early life:...
(1783–1850), State court judge in New Jersey; U.S. Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1831-33.