>Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 06:37:57 -0700 (PDT) >X-From_: joanbretz@drexel.edu Thu Sep 9 06:37:56 1999 >Old-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:36:59 -0400 >From: Joan Bretz <joanbretz@drexel.edu> >Subject: !st Presbyterian Church Graveyard lists >X-Sender: bretzje@mail.drexel.edu >To: NJESSEX-L-request@rootsweb.com >X-Diagnostic: Already on the subscriber list >X-Diagnostic: 25 joanbretz@drexel.edu 32730 joanbretz@drexel.edu >X-Envelope-To: NJESSEX-L-request > >Almost . . . As far as I have been able to determine, "they" removed the >stones, disinterred whatever remains they could locate and deposited them >in a common grave behind the church, put the stones back face down, filled >in the spaces and paved them over. There is a smnall memorial garden >behind the church which I believe is over the common grave and there is a >grannite (?) wall with names of all the early families carved on it (ala >Vietnam memorial though on a smaller scale). > >For those who are interested - the churchyard at the 1st Prebyeterian >Church of Elizabeth is still extant. I have foundheadstones for three >definite sets of greats there and I know that several others had been >buried. I have visited it a number of times and will go again soom. There >is also a published books of these headstones. > >>>>>>>>>>>>> > >>Apparantly they were nice to the Newark folks. What did they do with my >>ancestors at the 1st Pres. Ch. Are they under the garage? >>Sheri > ------ Glenn G. Geisheimer germanic42@home.com