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Cedar Lawn Cemetery

Coordinates: 40°53′44″N 74°08′12″W / 40.89546°N 74.13674°W / 40.89546; -74.13674
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Stereoscopic Photo of the Entrance to Cedar Lawn Cemetery

Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedar Lawn Cemetery officially opened in September 1867, and recorded its first burial on September 27, 1867.

Location

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Cedar Lawn is located on a multi-acre plot bordered by Lakeview Avenue (CR 624), Crooks Avenue, I-80, and NJ-20; the plot is also home to the adjacent Calvary Cemetery, a Roman Catholic burial ground. Over 85,000 people are interned at Cedar Lawn.

History

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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

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References

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  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. ^ "Charles John Joughin, Titanic's chief baker". 29 June 2004.
  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. ^ [1] CWGC casualty record.
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40°53′44″N 74°08′12″W / 40.89546°N 74.13674°W / 40.89546; -74.13674