Hoboken Cemetery, North Bergen

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name = Hoboken Cemetery

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website = The Hoboken Cemetery is located at 5500 Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, New Jersey. [cite web |url=http://www.graveinfo.com/NJ/NorthBergen/Hoboken/ |title=Hoboken Cemetery |accessdate=2007-08-26 |quote=The Hoboken cemetery is located off of Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey. The Flower Hill Cemetery boarders it on two sides. Although one may have the sense of a well groomed and cared for cemetery when first arriving at the Hoboken Cemetery, just a short walk in any direction and you will find a different story. As you walk toward the back of the cemetery and up the sloping hills you will find that the ground is covered with weeds that range up to four feet in height. This makes it very difficult to find the any headstones that are among the over grown ground cover. There are also many monuments that have been toppled and broken. This cemetery seems like one that the local area youth would spend a weekend night at party, complete with alcoholic beverages which they seem to leave the containers strewn across the final resting place of many. |publisher= ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Painful Discovery |url= |quote=After Eloina Garcia died last July, she was to be buried in a prepaid plot in a North Bergen cemetery atop her husband, Heliodoro, who died 26 years ago. Instead, family members made a disturbing discovery: The remains of a complete stranger already occupied the earth directly above the casketof Garcia's husband. The deceased couple have ... |publisher=The Bergen Record |date=January 29, 2000 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] It is bordered by Flower Hill Cemetery. [cite book |last= Van Winkle |first=Daniel |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630-1923 |year=1923 |publisher= |quote= | url= |isbn=0832850675 ] Originally when the Secaucus Junction was built on land that was the Hudson County Burial Grounds, bodies exhumed were to be re-interred at the Hoboken Cemetery. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Discovery stalls move of 3,000 remains |url= |quote=The journey of more than 3,000 displaced souls to a final resting place has been delayed again after state officials discovered the North Jersey burial site they had chosen is already taken. In what has been called the largest single exhumation in the country's history, archaeologists have been digging up an old potter's field for the last five months to make way for an interchange off the New Jersey Turnpike to serve the new Secaucus transfer station. Officials were |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=August 9, 2003 |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= New burial spot needed for remains |url=http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NDEzMTcw |quote=Exasperated turnpike officials say the Hoboken Cemetery in North Bergen violated its contract when it promised there weren't any prior burials in the 2,430-foot section reserved for the potter's field bodies. The cemetery says it has no record of any bodies and the remains could have been fragments excavated from other areas on its grounds. Nevertheless, it has agreed to return the agency's $150,000 by Friday - the cost for reinterring the bodies. |publisher=Bergen Record |date= |accessdate=2007-08-21 ]

Notable burials

*Oscar Louis Auf der Heide (1874-1945), Mayor of West New York, New Jersey
*Allan Langdon McDermott, US Congressman
*H. Otto Wittpenn, Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
*Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright (1812-1871), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1865-1867. [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000758 Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright biography] , United States Congress. Accessed June 29, 2007.]

References

External links

* [http://www.graveinfo.com/NJ/NorthBergen/Hoboken/ Hoboken Cemetery] at Graveinfo
* [http://www.robbender.com/gallery/hoboken_cemetery Hoboken Cemetery] by Rob Bender
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU.html#R9T0XKDK9 Hoboken Cemetery] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=100030 Hoboken Cemetery] at Find A Grave