Bayview Cemetery, previously called Greenville Cemetery, is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It merged with New York Bay Cemetery and is now known as Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was built in 1848. It is located in the Greenville Section near Danforth Avenue Station. A former turnpike, the

Bergen Point Plank Road The Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road was a road originally built in the 19th century in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States which ran between Paulus Hook and Bergen Point. The company that built the road received a charter on March 6 ...

, now Garfield Avenue, runs through the cemetery. The cemetery contains a memorial and plots of several employees of the Cunard Shipping Line. Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957. The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to

Hudson County Hudson County is the most densely populated county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It lies west of the lower Hudson River, which was named for Henry Hudson, the sea captain who explored the area in 1609. Part of New Jersey's Gateway Region in ...

Notable burials

* Paul Broeser. * Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman (1926–2004), Liberian university president *

Glenn Dale Cunningham Glenn Dale Cunningham (September 16, 1943 – May 25, 2004) was an American Democratic Party politician, who was the first African American Mayor of Jersey City, the state's second-largest city, winning the 2001 Jersey City mayoral election. C ...

(1943–2004),

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* William Davis Daly (1851–1900), represented

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from 1899 to 1900. * Edward Irving Edwards (1863–1931)

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. * George Bragg Fielder (1842–1906), American Civil War veteran and politician *

Edward Hoos Edward Hoos (August 31, 1850 – October 24, 1912) was the 26th Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from May 3, 1897 to December 31, 1901. Biography Hoos was born in Neuwied, Germany, on August 31, 1850. He was an upholsterer who, after immigrating ...

(1850–1912),

. * James W. McCarthy (d. 1872), first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty *

Arthur Harry Moore Arthur Harry Moore (July 3, 1877 – November 18, 1952) was an American Democratic politician and attorney who was the 39th governor of New Jersey, serving three nonconsecutive three-year terms between 1926 and 1941. As of , Moore remains t ...

(1879–1952), 39th

who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941. * Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), American opera singer * George Lawrence Record (1859–1933), lawyer * Joe Simmons (1845–1901), buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a

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player and

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. * Robert G. Smith (1854–1923), American colonel and politician * Edward Faitoute Condict Young (1835–1908), banker, manufacturer and politician. * One Commonwealth war grave, of a

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seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

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External links

Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery
at Cemetery Junction

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Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery
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