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Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)

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Established
  
1840

Country
  
United States

Size
  
92 acres (370,000 m)

Phone
  
+1 973-673-0127

Location
  
Orange, New Jersey

Type
  
Non denominational

Founded
  
1840

Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)

Address
  
408 Orange Rd, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Wednesday8AM–4PMThursday8AM–4PMFriday8AM–4PMSaturday8AM–3PMSunday10AM–2PMMonday8AM–4PMTuesday8AM–4PMSuggest an edit

Burials
  
Michelle Thomas, Charles Edison, Althea Gibson

Similar
  
Rosedale Cemetery, Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Woody Home For Services I, Perry's Funeral Home, Glendale Cemetery Association

Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery located in Orange, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery in 1840.

Noted interments

  • Platt Adams (1885–1961), American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County
  • John L. Blake (1831–1899), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879–1881
  • Samuel Colgate (1822-1897), founder of Colgate-Palmolive
  • Charles Edison (1890–1969), son of Thomas Edison and the 42nd Governor of New Jersey
  • Althea Gibson (1927–2003), the first African American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour
  • George Huntington Hartford (1833–1917), Mayor of Orange, New Jersey from 1878–1890 and owned the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death
  • Frances Cox Henderson (1820–1897), wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women
  • Michelle Thomas (1968–1998), American actress best known for roles in Family Matters and The Cosby Show
  • William A. Wachenfeld (1889 – 1969) was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959.
  • William H. Wiley (1842–1925), represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909–1911
  • Three British Commonwealth war servicemen – a Royal Air Force officer and Canadian Army Sergeant of World War I and a Canadian airman of World War II
  • References

    Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey) Wikipedia