Dave The Fairview Cemetery in Westfield office is real helpful too. I even got a map of some of the locations of headstones. My grandparents are there. Amy ----- Original Message ----- From: <garymaher@juno.com> To: <NJUNION-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:16 AM Subject: [NJUnion] Re: Cranford - Kenilworth - Union Township Cemeteries 1850's +, et al, Query > Dave- > > There's a Dunham Avenue back there, too! > > The nearest large cemetery from the 1800s is Fairview in Westfield. > There are books cataloging many of the old stones in Fairview at the > Westfield Library. > > The next nearest old large cemetery, and the nearest opened before the > 1860s or so, would be the Colonial Cemetery (a/k/a Revolutionary > Cemetery) in Westfield. That cemetery has stones, all in the same row, > for Moses Dunham, son of Joseph, d. Apr. 25, 1862 aged 75 years; his wife > Sarah Baker Dunham, d. Oct. 7, 1852 aged 65 years; Enoch Dunham, d. Jan. > 2, 1848 aged 34y 7m 21d; William E. Dunham, son of David and Elizabeth, > d. Oct. 26, 1843; Hannah Dunham, daughter of Joseph and Mary, d. Nov. 29, > 1790; Joseph, d. Dec. 27, 1776 aged 40 years; wife Hannah, d. Nov. 20, > 1781 aged 43 years; John, son of David and Freelove, d. Nov. 23, 1796 > aged 20 years; Nancy, dtr of David and Nancy, d. Aug. 30, 1803. There > are a few other Dunhams scattered around the cemetery. > > There are a couple of small cemeteries quite close to the old Dunham > property. One is the Miller-Roll Cemetery, in Westfield near the > Springfield border. There are no Dunham stones there. > > The other is the French-Richards Cemetery, in Springfield behind a Rt. 22 > industrial park. I don't have the listing of that cemetery handy. > > There is also a DeCamp-Dunham Cemetery, but it's way over on the south > side of Scotch Plains, on the Westfield border, near Tamaques Park and > the Westfield conservation center. I don't have that listing handy > either. > > Good luck! > > Gary > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:01:30 -0700 NJUNION-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > I am looking for any old cemeteries (big or small) or old churchyards in > the > area of the Cranford - Kenelworth, Union Township border. My ancestors > Joseph and Sarah DUNHAM their son David M. DUNHAM lived on the DUNHAM > farm, > off of what is now Orange Avenue in Cranford. They are all listed on > that > farm in 1850 in what was then called Union Township. Any ideas or > suggestions on how I might find them or any documentation of them would > be of > great help. Thanks in Advance. Dave from Long Island > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >