Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery

Bayview - New York Bay Cemetery
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Established	1848
Location	Jersey City, New Jersey
Country	United States
Type	Protestant

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.[1][2][3]

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.[4] Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957.[5]

The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County.[6]

Notable burials

• Paul Broeser.[7]
• Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman (1926–2004), Liberian university president
• Glenn Dale Cunningham (1943–2004), Mayor of Jersey City[2]
• William Davis Daly (1851–1900), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1899 to 1900.[8][9]
• Edward Irving Edwards (1863–1931) Governor of New Jersey.[10]
• George Bragg Fielder (1842–1906), American Civil War veteran and politician[11]
• Edward Hoos (1850–1912), Mayor of Jersey City.[2]
• James W. McCarthy (d. 1872), first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty[12]
• Arthur Harry Moore (1879–1952), 39th Governor of New Jersey who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941.[13][14]
• Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), American opera singer
• George Lawrence Record (1859–1933), lawyer[2]
• Joe Simmons (1845–1901), buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a Major league baseball player and manager.[15]
• Robert G. Smith (1854–1923), American colonel and politician
• Edward Faitoute Condict Young (1835–1908), banker, manufacturer and politician.[2]
• One Commonwealth war grave, of a World War I seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.[16]
• Bob Shannon (1948-2023)

See also

• 2019 Jersey City shooting
• Hudson County Cemeteries

References

1. Van Winkle, Daniel (1923). History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923. ISBN 0832850675.
2. "Bayview–New York Bay Cemetery". New Jersey City University. Archived from the original on 23 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
3. Egan, Colin (Fall 1991). "The Hudson Underground". Hudson County Magazine.
4. Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813521114.
5. White, James Terry (1963). The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. J. T. White Company. Ziegler served as president of Bayview Cemetery, Jersey City, from 1935 to 1957.
6. "Jewish Cemetery Dating Back to 1875 Found in J.C." The Jersey Journal. Roots.web. n.d.
7. "Paul Broeser's Suicide". The New York Times. August 31, 1883. Retrieved 2008-10-08. The suicide of Paul Broeser, a young German, on his wife's grave, in the New-York Bay Cemetery, recalls the romantic story of his marriage. His wife was the daughter of John A. Schuler, of Jersey City Heights.
8. "William Davis Daly". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
9. "William Davis Daly". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
10. "Edward Irving Edwards". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
11. "George Bragg Fielder". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
12. Horwitz, Marli (July 24, 2013). "Anniversary ceremony honors Jersey City's first fallen firefighter". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
13. Arthur Harry Moore biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 11, 2007
14. "Arthur Harry Moore". The Political Graveyard. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
15. Joe Simmons Baseball-Reference player and managerial career stats
16. "Casualty Record: Holt, Thomas Walter". Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

External links

• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at Cemetery Junction
• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at Find a Grave
• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at Grave Info

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