Cedar Grove Cemetery is in Middlebush,

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History

In the 1940s the township of Franklin purchased and maintained 100 cemetery plots. The purpose was to create a

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. By 1975 the township only used 6 of the burial plots: they decided to sell the others.

Burials

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* Welsh Family, said to have donated the land for this cemetery. The family lived on Welshs Lane in East Millstone, NJ.

References

External links

* * {{GNIS, 875282, Cedar Grove Cemetery Cemeteries in Somerset County, New Jersey