Willow Grove Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Willow Grove Cemetery is a cemetery near New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. The grounds sit at about 39 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 17 notable people buried here, including Abraham Coles, Amy O. Kershaw and Carrie O. Rappleyea. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 881859. The nearest other listed cemetery is First Methodist Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the east. The nearest funeral home we know of is Quackenboss Funeral Home in New Brunswick, about 0.4 mi away. It is one of 86 cemeteries we list in Middlesex County, and 104 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Middlesex County dates to 1754. 7 of the 86 listings in Middlesex County have a phone number or website on record.

This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, New Brunswick. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.

Among them: 3 physicians, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 writer.

• Abraham Coles1813-1891
  American physician and poet
• Amy O. Kershaw1847-1930
  (1847-1930) wife of Jerome Rappleyea
• Carrie O. Rappleyea1867-1901
  (1867-1901) husband of Louis Fowler Gallaudet
• Charles Holbert Voorhees1824-1900
• Jonathan Ackerman Coles1843-1926
  American physician
• Kusakabe Tarō1845-1870
  First Japanese student to graduate from Rutgers College, New Jersey
• Abraham Schuyler Neilson1792-1861
  10 Sep 1792 New Brunswick, New Jersey - 30 June 1861
• Caroline Elizabeth Ackerman1817-1845
• Catharine Bayard Rutgers1826-1905
• Catharine Bleecker1809-1893
  Writer from New Brunswick, New Jersey
• David W. Vail1796-1842
  Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey
• James Neilson1784-1862
  American military officer and merchant from New Brunswick, New Jersey

People whose Wikidata entry gives Willow Grove Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.

Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.

• First Methodist Cemetery

  New Brunswick, NJ
  Methodist cemetery

  0.2 mi
• First Reformed Churchyard

  160 Neilson Street, New Brunswick, NJ
  Christian cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Christ Church Graveyard

  5 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ · est. 1754
  Episcopal cemetery

  0.3 mi
• Saint Peters Cemetery

  New Brunswick, NJ
  Cemetery

  1.0 mi
• Elmwood Cemetery

  425 Georges Road, North Brunswick Township, NJ
  Cemetery

  1.1 mi
• Poile Zeda Cemetery

  New Brunswick, NJ
  Cemetery

  1.3 mi
• Van Liew Cemetery

  585 George's Road, North Brunswick Township, NJ
  Cemetery

  1.4 mi
• Mary Ellis Burial Site

  Highland Park, NJ
  Cemetery

  1.5 mi
• Smally Cemetery

  Edison, NJ
  Cemetery

  2.3 mi
• Three Mile Run Cemetery

  Voorhees, NJ
  Christian cemetery

  2.5 mi

• Quackenboss Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Brunswick · (732) 545-0008
  0.4 mi
• Anderson Funeral Services

  Funeral home · New Brunswick · (732) 545-7312
  0.6 mi
• Gowen Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Brunswick · (732) 545-1344
  0.6 mi
• Crabiel Parkwest Funeral Chapel

  Funeral chapel · New Brunswick · (732) 828-2332
  0.6 mi
• Boylan Funeral Home

  Funeral home · New Brunswick
  0.7 mi
• Jaqui-Kuhn Funeral Home

  Funeral home · Highland Park · (732) 545-0606
  0.7 mi

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