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Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery

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Established
  
1848

Type
  
Protestant

Phone
  
+1 201-433-2400

Country
  
United States

Founded
  
1848

Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery

Location
  
Jersey City, New Jersey

Address
  
321 Garfield Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07305, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Tuesday8AM–4PMWednesday8AM–4PMThursdayClosedFriday8AM–4PMSaturday8AM–4PMSunday8AM–4PMMonday8AM–4PM

Burials
  
A. Harry Moore, Edward I. Edwards, Glenn Cunningham

Similar
  
Old Bergen Church, Jersey City and Harsimus, Grove Church Cemetery, Central Railroad of New Jers, Baron Hirsch Cemetery

Bayview Cemetery, previously called Greenville Cemetery, is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It merged with New York Bay Cemetery and is now known as Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery.

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History

The cemetery was built in 1848. It is located in the Greenville Section near Danforth Avenue Station. A former turnpike, the Bergen Point Plank Road, now Garfield Avenue, runs through the cemetery.

The cemetery contains a memorial and plots of several employees of the Cunard Shipping Line. Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957.

The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County

Notable burials

  • Paul Broeser.
  • Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman (1926-2004), Liberian university president
  • Glenn Dale Cunningham (1943-2004), Mayor of Jersey City
  • William Davis Daly (1851-1900), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1899 to 1900.
  • Edward Irving Edwards (1863-1931) Governor of New Jersey.
  • George Bragg Fielder (1842-1906), American Civil War veteran and politician
  • Edward Hoos (1850-1912), Mayor of Jersey City.
  • James W. McCarthy (d. 1872), first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty
  • Arthur Harry Moore (1879-1952), 39th Governor of New Jersey who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941.
  • George Lawrence Record (1859-1933), lawyer
  • Joe Simmons (1845-1901), buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a Major league baseball player and manager.
  • Edward Faitoute Condict Young (1835-1908), banker, manufacturer and politician.
  • One Commonwealth war grave, of a World War I seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

    • References

    Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery Wikipedia
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