About New Somerville Cemetery
New Somerville Cemetery is a cemetery near Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey. It lies about 1.0 mi north of Somerville. The grounds sit at about 49 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 36 notable people buried here, including Clifford P. Case, James Leal Greenleaf and William G. Steele. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 880696. The nearest other listed cemetery is Old Somerville Cemetery, about 0.2 mi to the southeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Buckland Funeral Home in Somerville, about 0.7 mi away. It is one of 59 cemeteries we list in Somerset County, and 62 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Somerville. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at New Somerville Cemetery
Among them: 2 US representatives, 1 business leader, 1 Civil War veteran, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 Spanish-American War veteran, 1 US senator, 1 writer.
- Clifford P. Case1904-1982American politician
- James Leal Greenleaf1857-1933American architect and civil engineer
- William G. Steele1820-1892Member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
- J. E. McConaughy1834-1885American litterateur and author
- Matthew Emerson Vosseller1921-1984American railroad employee
- Robert Gordon Anderson1881-1950Author
- Anna Louisa Clock Cornell1859-1947Wife of Thomas Henry Hardwicke
- Charles Carhart Kenyon1871-1937Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Charles Harland Fetterly1879-1958Mayor of Bound Brook, New Jersey
- Charles Heisler Bateman1861-1934President of the Somerset County Historical Society
- Charles Henry Tompkins Sr.1834-1895Union Army Brevet Brigadier General
- Claude Webster Walck1910-1962Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
Show all 36 notable burials
- Freas Leslie Hess Sr.1896-1959Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- George Anderson1849-1910Son of Lewis Anderson
- George Henry Shay1908-1982Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Isaac E. Van Nostrand1872-1937Husband of Mabel Cain
- James Harper Smith1834-1911American businessman from Somerville, New Jersey
- James J. Bergen1847-1924American judge
- James Lefevre1828-1914President of the Somerset County Historical Society
- John Franklin Reger1869-1956American judge
- Joshua Doughty Jr.1844-1929
- Leroy Gunzelman Jr.1913-1999Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Mabel A. Cain1875-1955Wife of Isaac E. Van Nostrand
- Mary Polahar1880-1962Wife of John Mihok
- Mary Washington Lindauer1893-1930
- Nelson Young Dungan1867-1932President of the Somerset County Historical Society
- Peter V. Kershaw1821-1898
- Richard Lothian Jr.1907-1987Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Thomas Alexander Flockhart1874-1955Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Walter Ford Scott1894-1974Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Walter King Crater1876-1943President of the Somerset County Historical Society
- William Vernon Steele1854-1924Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Frederick John Frelinghuysen1818-1891American lawyer
- George Massage Gurisic1928-2003Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
- Joshua Doughty1799-1881
- Walter Beekman Studdiford1928-1998President of the Somerset County Historical Society
People whose Wikidata entry gives New Somerville 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.
Map
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What New Somerville Cemetery offers
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.
Nearby cemeteries
- Old Somerville CemeterySomerville, NJCemetery0.2 mi
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- Veghte Burying Ground CemeteryBradley Gardens, NJChristian cemetery1.9 mi
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- Van Nest Burying GroundManville, NJCemetery2.6 mi
- Temple Sholom CemeteryFinderne, NJJewish cemetery2.8 mi
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Funeral homes near New Somerville Cemetery
- Buckland Funeral Home0.7 miFuneral home · Somerville · (908) 218-0281
- Funeraria Latino Americana0.7 miFuneral home · Somerville · (908) 722-3063
- Cuoco Funeral & Cremation Services0.7 miCremation provider · Somerville · (908) 707-2058
- Cusick Funeral Home0.9 miFuneral home · Somerville · (908) 725-4100
- Bruce C. Van Arsdale Funeral Home1.0 miFuneral home · Somerville · (908) 725-3111
- Bongiovi Funeral Home LLC1.3 miFuneral home · Raritan · (908) 725-1887
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