In a message dated 3/28/2002 3:04:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, AudreyShieldsHancock@att.net writes: > Do you have an address for the Dunham-DeCamp Cemetery or who would I write > to see names of persons buried there? > > Audrey > The Dunham-DeCamp Cemetery is located in the back yard of 2160 Buttonwood Lane, near the intersection of Lambert's Mill Road and Raritan Road. It can be difficult to see from Lambert's Mill Road, even if you know what you're looking for. I visited there a few years ago. There are five graves, as follows: 1. Morris Decamp 1750 - 1821 2. Freelove Dunham April 4, 1784 3. John DeCamp Oct 20 1782 4. Nov 1. 1793 , "In memory of Sarah Widow of John DeCamp She died Nov the 1st, 1793 in the 67th year of her age" 5. Dr. Gideon DeCamp Dec 18, 1815 While I was there, I talked briefly with a neighbor, who said I was the first DeCamp he had ever met! He told me that, shortly after they moved there, they were awakened one morning by gunfire, and found that the SAR seems to conduct an annual ceremony (Memorial Day?) when men in Revolutionary uniforms fire a rifle salute, presumably to Morris DeCamp, who was a Revolutionary soldier in Colonel Sheldon's Light Dragoons. He also told me of having met an elderly man who recalled playing in the area years ago, before homes were constructed (probably 1950 or earlier). At that time, he recalled, there were a large number of graves there. I assume that they were probably destroyed when the land was graded for home construction. The cemetery is in good condition, and the stones are still legible. It's not too far from a colonial home on Raritan Road that is identified as the "John DeCamp House". I understand that it may be one of the sites on an occasional local tour of pre-Revolutionary homes. There's an Internet page where John Dux reports on a 1997 visit to NJ, that included this cemetery. The url is: http://www.geocities.com/heartland/woods/5514/nj_trip.html The destruction of the cemetery may tie in with a news story that Harman Clark sent me several years ago. As I recall, it was about a family living in Clark, NJ, that found an intact DeCamp gravestone when they were doing some landscaping. I believe that the article said that they intended to give the stone to the local historical society. I'm not sure when the story was published, possibly early 1980s. Wilson DeCamp Vienna, VA