--part1_6b.b00d6bf.271cccb2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_6b.b00d6bf.271cccb2_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <ARevits@aol.com> From: ARevits@aol.com Full-name: ARevits Message-ID: <17.bfc04fb.2711ec01@aol.com> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:25:53 EDT Subject: Fwd: [NJMON] Shrewsbury Christ Church Cemetery Listings To: ARevits@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_6b.b00d6bf.2711ec01_boundary" X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 120 --part2_6b.b00d6bf.2711ec01_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part2_6b.b00d6bf.2711ec01_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <NJMONMOU-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yb03.mx.aol.com (rly-yb03.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.3]) by air-yb04.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.8) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:48:57 -0400 Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-yb03.mx.aol.com (v75_b3.9) with ESMTP; Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:48:36 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e982lc702423; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:47:38 -0700 Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 19:47:38 -0700 X-Original-Sender: ARevits@aol.com Sat Oct 7 19:47:37 2000 From: ARevits@aol.com Message-ID: <e2.ab8d5d8.27113a44@aol.com> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:47:32 EDT Old-To: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 120 Subject: [NJMON] Shrewsbury Christ Church Cemetery Listings Resent-Message-ID: <HqC4YC.A.rl.KB-35@lists6.rootsweb.com> To: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/7052 X-Loop: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: NJMONMOU-L-request@rootsweb.com Dear List- I spent this afternoon at the cemetery of Christ Church, Highway 35 and Sycamore Ave., Shrewsbury, N.J. Even though I might in all likelihood do a much better job of posting my results tomorrow, I'll do so tonight, aware that you're highly interested. While scribbling on my notepad, I was approached by a gentleman whom I presume was the Church caretaker. "Jim" was watering the foliage adjacent to tombstones. As I've said before and cannot repeat enough, this cemetery is so well maintained that you'd think the decedents passed away recently! Of course, some of the stones are illegible, the inscriptions having been obliterated by weathering over time. Nonetheless, the vast majority are in excellent condition. I was told that there is a huge project underway at Christ Church, to map the cemetery and to identify the occupants of each grave. Apparently, longstanding records can fail to represent names in accordance with actual interment sites. Nonetheless, what follows is a listing of surnames on tombstones I copied today, Oct. 7, 2000 from the headstones of graves in cemetery of The Old Christ Church, Shrewsbury, NJ. I have taken the liberty of posting in addition the most prominent, salient inscriptions of some graves I selected, simply because of the personal impressions they left with me. FRONT- RIGHT OF CHURCH TOLE EATON TIFFIN MINES- LIPPMAN LITTLE HOFFMIRE LIPPINCOTT BISHOP WHITE TATOR WHITE-LIPPINCOTT WALLER WEST GREEN BANTA LYONS HENRY HUDSON JUDD ROCHE HINCKS EILERT DONALD GRIMSHAW BOWKER KEITH WINANS ROGERS CONOLLY TICEHURST SPECK PINNELL DURYEA WOOD McINTYRE SMITH GRANT CARPENDER ( NO MISSPELLING!) WAITE WILLIAMS TYSON MIDDLE- RIGHT OF CHURCH CROES " ANNA T. DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND ELEANOR CROES JULY 8, 1819 DEC. 15, 1910" SALLAR REMSEN LEWIS WHITE PEMBERTON STOKES MOORE HART " MEMORY OF JOHN HART OF BARNARD CASTLE ENGLAND WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 29TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1805. AGED ABOUT 46 YEARS." EPPELEIN ALLAIRE MAXFIELD VAN VLIET SMITH STAIR WHEELER BURNETT WYLIE KING EARLE McCLADE GOODWIN COCHRAN TILTON HILL PINTARD COLEMAN WHITLOCK SCOTT KNIGHT HATFIELD "SARAH K. HATFIELD BORN NOVEMBER 2, 1792, DIED APRIL 18, 1857" DURHAM BACK OF CHURCH WINDNAGEL (1932- 1945) HATFIELD (HUGE STONE: SUSAN, ANNA) WILLGERODT McCLELLAN MALLERY DILLON JONES CLAY HARRISON COKELET KIRBY KLINE GREEN BALMER HANSON LEONARD DORR KINGSLEY THROCKMORTON VAN HOOK FORMAN MORTON CUMMINGS JOHNSON DAWSON DENISE WARE (RECTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH: JAMES LAWRENCE WARE) WALTON DOWNS EDMUNDS BARCLAY CHADWICK ALLEN * CUMMINGS ELLIS LEIGHTON FINCH (RECTOR) WHEATON BUCKINGHAM DENNIS COOK WORTHLEY ASSURE ASSUR " A NATIVE OF POLAND BORN JULY 10, 1790, DIED JULY 12, 1854" POOLE GRAIG HOWLAND- BOOTH EVESSON ESTILL HOPE TALLMAN ESTILL BACK-LEFT OF CHURCH TABER DEGRAW BORDEN MOLLAND HACNCOCK BARKER LAWES BRIMLEY KRAHNERT SODEN CASEY GUPTIL SLOCUM DOW LIVOCK WINDSOR WHEELER CUTTER SICKLES MORFORD SEBRING McCLAUSLAND CAMPBELL FINCH CHASEY VOORHEES HOLMES LEFT OF CHURCH MADDISON TILTON HAGERTY KIRTEN LLOYD GINGI BARTLETT KIHN McKAY GODET LIPPINCOTT HAWKINS RECKLESS HAZARD LITTLE * ALLEN TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTIONS: 1. GEO. H. SON OF GEO. L. & ANNA ALLEN APRIL 4, 1817 AUG. 21, 1851 2. IN MEMORY OF GEORGE L. ALLEN SON OF GEORGE AND LYDIA ALLEN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE OCT. 9TH 1855 AGED 78 YEARS 10 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS 3. IN MEMORY OF OUR MOTHER ANNA ALLEN WIFE OF GEORGE L. ALLEN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 8TH, 1875 AGED 84 YEARS. 9 MO. & 3 DAYS. " ASLEEP IN JESUS, BLESSED SLEEP FROM WHICH NONE EVER WAKE TO WEEP. __________________________________________ HER SPIRIT FREED FROM EARTHLY CARES IS RESTING NOW FROM TEARS AND PRAYERS WITH LOVED ONES GONE BEFORE, SHE WAITS FOR OTHER LOVED ONES AT THE GATES." 4. IN MEMORY OF GIDEON T. ALLEN SON OF GEORGE L. AND ANNA ALLEN WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB. 6TH 1858 AGED 28 YEARS ______________________________ "NO LIFE IS OVER AND DEATH MAY ?: REMEMBER WELL- LARGER MA??N??" 5. JOHN W. PARKER BORN NOV. 7, 1825 DIED SEPT. 28, 1893 AUGUSTA F. ALLEN HIS WIFE BORN JAN. 11, 1822 DIED SEPT. 13, 1889 TAYLOR JOSEPH A. TAYLOR BORN FEB. 9, 1775 DIED NOV. 3, 1839 CAROLINE W. HOLMES RELICT OF JOSEPH A. TAYLOR AND LATE WIFE OFJOSEPH M. SMITH BORN SEPT. 18, 1800 DIED JULY 25, 1881 __________________________________________________________________ "THERE IS REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD." ==== NJMONMOU Mailing List ==== Monmouth County Archives http://www.shore.co.monmouth.nj.us/01171_archives/test.htm --part2_6b.b00d6bf.2711ec01_boundary-- --part1_6b.b00d6bf.271cccb2_boundary--