The original Old Burying Ground in downtown Newark was about two and
a third acres. As the cemetery grew, Newark officials (1828) purchased
a burial place in the eastern end of town and residents were given the
opportunity to rebury their ancestors to this new cemetery without expense.
In the following decades, the grass and shrubbery of the Old Burying Ground
were trampled under and the headstones were scattered, defaced or broken.
In 1858 the common council prohibited any more internments in the Old
Burying Ground and forbade the establishment of new cemeteries within
the Watch and Lamp District. The new cemeteries were placed at least a
mile away from the population center for health reasons (the belief that
the corpses poisoned the air with their emanations causing Yellow Fever).
These new cemeteries were built to also serve the living by providing
shade walks, forest groves, shrubbery and flowers where people could go
to find sanctuary from the maelstrom of daily life through spiritual and
aesthetic repose.
"Though many of the churches in the city are still surrounded by
their old graveyards, internments have long ceased to be made in them.
The rural cemetery has superseded all other forms of sepulture, as being
not only better adapted to the purpose, but as affording greater certainty
that the remains of the dead will remain undisturbed by the extension
of the city."
Cemetery |
Address |
Founded |
Burial Ground (Howard/Court) |
Corner of Howard Street and Court Street |
From 1868 map of Newark |
Clinton Cemetery Association |
Irvington (Camptown) |
Founded Feb 28, 1844 |
Coeyman Cemetery |
Woodside Section |
|
Colored Grave Yard |
20-26 Wall Street |
From 1872 map of Newark |
Evergreen Cemetery |
Hillside |
Still Active |
Fairmount Cemetery |
South Orange Avenue-Central Avenue, Newark |
Founded 1855, still active |
First Baptist Church Burying
Ground |
|
|
First Presbyterian Church Cemetery |
Broad Street |
(different than the Old Burying Ground) |
Fourth Presbyterian Church Cemetery images |
129 Washington Street |
From 1847 Map |
Franklin Street Methodist Cemetery |
Tichenor's Lane, Parkhurst Street and New Jersey Railroad Avenue |
Nothing is known about this cemetery other than the internments
were moved to Fairmount. |
German Evangelical Church Cemetery |
Mulberry Street |
|
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery/The
Bishop's Cemetery |
Grove Street, Newark/East Orange |
Founded 1859 |
Lyons Farms Baptist Church Cemetery |
|
|
Mount Olivet R. C. Cemetery |
220 Mt. Olivet Ave |
Founded 1871 |
Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
375 Broadway (Belleville Avenue), Newark |
Founded 1844 |
Newark City Cemetery images |
Hamburg Place, Newark |
From 1847 Map |
Old Burying Ground (First Presbyterian
Church Cemetery) |
Broad Street, Halsey Street |
Original Burying Ground for Newark, moved 1889 |
Potter's Field |
Waverly Street, Newark |
Founded ~1869 |
Rosedale Cemetery |
Orange |
|
Rosemont Memorial Park |
Elizabeth |
|
St. John's (Old) Catholic Cemetery |
Mulberry Street/Belleville Avenue, Newark |
|
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery |
Forrest Avenue, East Orange |
|
St. Michael's (Old) Catholic Cemetery |
Belleville Avenue, between Crittenden Street and Fourth Avenue |
Moved in the 1950's |
Second Methodist Church Cemetery images |
54 Halsey Street |
From 1847 map of Newark |
Second Presbyterian Church Cemetery |
Plane Street (2nd Presbyterian Church) |
From 1847 map of Newark |
Second Roman Cathlic Church Cemetery images |
Corner of William & Shipman Streets |
From 1847 map of Newark |
Third Presbyterian Church Cemetery |
903-917 Broad Street |
From 1872 map of Newark |
Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery |
Rector Street |
|
West Newark |
670 South 10th Street |
Founded 1855 |
Woodland Cemetery
(West Newark Cemetery) |
670 South 10th Street |
Founded 1855 |
Woodside/Coeyman Family Cemetery |
Newark (Woodside section) |
|
Jewish Cemeteries |
Acudith Ackim |
Grove Street, South Orange Avenue |
|
Anshai Russia (Cong.) |
Grove Street, South Orange Avenue |
|
Arlington Cemetery Association |
Belleville Turnpike in North Arlington |
|
Belmont Avenue Jewish Cemetery |
|
Founded 1848, no longer in existence |
Bethel Memorial Park |
|
|
B'Nai Jeshurun (Cong.) |
Newark/Hillside |
|
Grove Street Jewish Cemetery |
|
Founded 1898 |
Mount Olivet Jewish Cemetery |
|
|
Orden B'Nai Jocob of N. J. |
530 South Orange Avenue, Newark |
|
Oheb Scholem (Cong.) |
526 South Orange Avenue, Newark |
|
Sons of Abraham (Order) |
526 South Orange Avenue, Newark |
|
Talmud Torah Cemetery |
|
Founded 1896 |
Union Fields-B'Nai Abraham Cemetery |
|
Founded 1879 |