Hi List, I spent some time at the JC Cemetery, 435 Newark Ave. on Thurs. afternoon. If your looking for Rels. and you think they are possibly there, it's worth a visit. The lady I spoke to ,Flora, is very helpful, and found 4 possible names from the 1880s-1930s indexes, and then went to the full volumes and gave me all of the information on each individual. The Cemetery is about the size of a Little League Baseball field, but has thousands of burials there. Problem is there is no map of the cemetery there, and Flora has no idea of where the graves might be. Plus the owners have refused the LDS people to record the information there. If you do find a written record of a family member, all you can do is wave at the sea of Headstones and say hi. Arnold Roepken

I was interested in the JC Cemetery posting for I have had bad luck with this cemetery. When I went last October (1999) to visit, there was noone in charge and no records and no information. The cemetery was in horrible condition with broken stones, fallen trees (on top of stones), grass above my waist. There was a kind older man named Jimmy (aged 87, I think) on the site who was trying to make sense of the place because his parents were buried there. He tried very hard to be helpful but the task there is almost overwhelming. I've written twice since to no avail (once to Jimmy's neice and once to an address someone posted several months ago) and am fascinated that there is actually someone named Flora who has records? Can you tell me how to find her? My grandmother Lulu Grant Harrison Boland along with her parents Harriet Freligh Harrison and John S. Harrison -- plus others -- are all in there somewhere. I'm willing to search (again) for headstones although I think they've been destroyed or ruined but I'd really like to see the indexes. There was a plat map (without indexes) in the little abandoned gate house of Harsimus Cemetery? Is that the same cemetery as the Jersey City Cemetery? Thanks for whatever information you can give me about Flora. Dory Boland Skemp in Rhode Island Always searching New Jersey/New York names: Banta, Boland, Brinkerhoff, Clendenny, Demarest, Durie, DuTreiux, Freligh, Harrison, McCutcheon, Peek, Steynmets, Vanderlinde, VanImburgh,Westervelt ----- Original Message ----- From: "arnold roepken" <aroepken@optonline.net> To: <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:30 PM Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Jersey City Cemetery Input > Hi List, > I spent some time at the JC Cemetery, 435 Newark Ave. on > Thurs. afternoon. If your looking for Rels. and you think they are > possibly there, it's worth a visit. The lady I spoke to ,Flora, is > very helpful, and found 4 possible names from the 1880s-1930s > indexes, and then went to the full volumes and gave me all of the > information on each individual. > The Cemetery is about the size of a Little League Baseball > field, but has thousands of burials there. Problem is there is no > map of the cemetery there, and Flora has no idea of where the > graves might be. Plus the owners have refused the LDS people > to record the information there. > If you do find a written record of a family member, all you can > do is wave at the sea of Headstones and say hi. > Arnold Roepken > >