Connecticut Farms Cemetery Home


HOMEPAGE
of


CONNECTICUT FARMS CEMETERY
(aka The Old Burial Ground in Union)
Union, Union Co., NJ

First Prebyterian Congregation of Connecticut Farms
Stuyvesant and Chestnut St.
Union, NJ 07083









This website is not associated with the Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church, but there are links to information concerning this church and its history. This information is presented here by family genealogists and interested parties whose ancestries are found in the history and development of this church, and whose ancestors perhaps were buried in its cemetery.

It is hoped that we will be able to collect family stories, histories, lineages, and especially photos of old gravestones within the cemetery's domain. If anyone has digital photos that they would like to send via e-mail of these aging gravestones, please let this author know.

Audrey (Shields) Hancock of Portage, MI




Rev. John Tipton of the Connecticut Farms Presbyterian Church of Union, New Jersey has graciously shared some information concerning this church and cemetery with ASH via e-mail 11 January 2002 and enlightened me in doing so. Perhaps others will benefit from the some of the excerpted information that Rev. Tipton shared.

"The Cemetery is still the Connecticut Farms Cemetery. It has never been called even presently as the Union Cemetery." [In reference to my original posting as aka Union Cemetery according to other researchers. ASH] "Sometimes it is referred in our records of the nineteenth cemetery as the Old Burial Ground in Union. If there has been a name change, my church, which owns and maintains the cemetery is unaware of such a change."

"Connecticut Farms is the village name of the area before incorporation into the township of Union in 1807. Referring to" [Connecticut Farms Cemetery as] "the Union Cemetery is to use a name that doesn't exist in the township or the Church. Perhaps the mistake was arrived at as a corruption of the commonly used 'The Connecticut Farms Cemetery in the township of Union' and somehow it has shorted to 'Union Cemetery.' But Union Cemetery is not its 1905 incorporated name."

"The church has spent over forty thousands dollars a year ago to do some substantial work, resetting stones and restoring others to their rightful plots. Over the centuries, broken stones were stacked along the back fence. Now they sit on their original sites. In another area we have located long covered stones and have placed a large historic maker on the mass of grave of English and Hessian who were killed in the Battle of Connecticut Farms. This is the best the Connecticut Farms Cemetery has looked in 75 years."


Thank you, Rev. Tipton, for your insights. ASH




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Webpage by: Audrey (Shields) Hancock
Portage, MI
Created: 11 January 2002
Revised: 15 April 2006






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