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Bayview-New York Bay Cemetery is in the southeastern section of Jersey City; It fills an expansive area between Garfield and Ocean Avenues and extends to the sloped terrain from Garfield Avenue to the bottom of the hill that oversees New York City. Its main entrances are on Ocean Avenue and at the intersection of Garfield and Chapel Avenues. Its name is derived
from the merger of the Bay View and New York Bay cemeteries in the 1840s.
After the cemetery opened, Cunard, the British steamship company, purchased
an enclosed plot of several lots. It was reserved for its employees who
lived in the community. The Cunard line was located on the Jersey City
waterfront and over the years approximately one hundred Cunard workers
were buried here. An inscription on the granite monument at the center
of the plot reads: "Erected by the crews of the Cunard steamships
in memory of their dear shipmates." The earliest listing of the deceased
marks the death of Hugh McPherson in 1857. There is also a marker for
the deceased of the HMS Hibernia. In December 1847, it became the
first Cunard ship docked at the Jersey City piers that were started by
the Associates
of the Jersey Company. Among those buried in the cemetery are: members of the Lembeck family of the former Lembeck & Betz Eagle Brewery; George Von Arx, the noted architect for his design of many firehouses; and Hugh Roberts, the architect of the Brennan Hudson County Court House and other city structures. Political figures buried in the cemetery are New Jersey governors Edward I. Edwards and A. Harry Moore, Jersey City mayors Edward Hoos, George L. Record, and Glenn D. Cunningham, and prominent financier E.F.C. Young. References: |
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Cemetery Section of New York Bay Cemetery Garfield and Chapel Avenues |
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New York Bay Cemetery
in Jersey City was opened in 1845 in response to the burial needs of the
immigrants living in Manhattan across New York Bay. Among the earliest
burials were residents if the Jewish faith. Fraternal organizations from
New York--the Sol Benjamin Society and a lodge of the United Order of
the Sons of David--supervised the care of some of the graves. The dates
on most of the forty to fifty graves are of those who died in the 1870s
and 1880s. Inscriptions on some of the stones indicate the places of birth
of the deceased as Germany and Alsace. The oldest readable grave marker
is for Moses Hirsch, 1857. Jersey City's first Jewish congregation was
formed in the 1860s and became the present-day Temple
Beth-El. Reference: |
| By: Carmela Karnoutsos Project Administrator: Patrick Shalhoub |
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