Tag: New Camden Cemetery
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John A. S. Hunt
John Albert Stockton Hunt was born in Camden, New Jersey, to George Sawyer Hunt and Clara Cook. His father, George, served in the Camden Fire Department in the late 1870s and 1880s, starting as a stoker and later becoming a hose cart driver with Engine Company 1. George S. Hunt married Clara Cook in the…
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Benjamin Cavanaugh
Benjamin Cavanaugh was born in Canada in March 1843 to Matthew and Elizabeth Cavanaugh. The family later moved to Pennsylvania before settling in Camden, New Jersey. In the 1850 Census, they were listed as residents of Camden’s South Ward. Benjamin started an apprenticeship as a bootmaker during the 1850s, learning the trade. When the Civil…
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Soldier’s Row
New Camden Cemetery Name Location BUFFETTA, LEONARD GRAVE 22 JOHNSON, EVERETT 7-18-57 GRAVE 23 HINKLE, MAX 8-15-57 GRAVE 24 HENKLE, HERBERT 4-28-59 GRAVE 25 JERNIGAN, LEONARD 8-10-59 GRAVE 26 PIERCE, ELLSWORTH 6-5-64 GRAVE 27 WILLIAMS, JOSEPH 6-29-64 GRAVE 28 ELKINS, JAMES 11-25-64 GRAVE 29 HARRIS, JOHN 5-15-65 GRAVE 30 SALES, FRED 2-11-66 GRAVE 31 HUNTER,…
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New Camden Cemetery
Northeast Corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Ferry Avenue New Camden Cemetery is on the northeast corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Ferry Avenue, opposite Evergreen Cemetery. The cemetery opened in 1887, as Old Camden Cemetery, between Mount Ephraim and Haddon Avenues north of Mount Vernon Street, was approaching capacity. The City of Camden owns…
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Diamond
Diamond was a city employee, a white horse that was used by the public works department in its tasks relating to taking care of the grounds at Old Camden Cemetery and New Camden Cemetery. Diamond made the papers in August of 1935 and again in the summer of 1936, when he needed to be treated…
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Soldier’s Plots
New Camden Cemetery Year of Death Month of Death Day of Death Last, First, MI Age (years) Location 1888 Mar 2 Rings, John R 54y Gr2 1888 26 Scroggy, Hugh 60 Gr 2 1888 29 Rhodes, Samuel 47 Gr3 1888 10 Ke?r, James Gr 13 1888 Oct 7 Green, Andrew 38 Gr 13 R 4…
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Thomas T. S. Eastlack
THOMAS T.S. EASTLACK, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in May of 1874 to replace George B. Anderson an extra man with Engine Company 2. He served until April of 1876, when he was not re-appointed due to a change in politics in the leadership of the Fire Department. Thomas Eastlack was born in…
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Alter Barbel
Alter Barbell, born on January 24, 1877, in Pruzany, Russia, embarked on a journey to the United States via Hamburg. He, along with his wife Dora and sons Myer and Elmer, arrived at Ellis Island, New York, on February 28, 1902, aboard the Hamburg-American line steamship Phoenicia. The family initially settled in South Philadelphia, where,…
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New Camden Cemetery Purchase
Philadelphia Inquirer – July 8, 1887 At a meeting of the trustees of the Camden Cemetery last night the special committee appointed to secure a new burial ground recommended the purchase of the land opposite to Evergreen Cemetery, at $700 per acre.
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The Year 1836 – Camden, NJ
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends’ burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836. The control was vested in trustees appointed by the township meeting. A plot of ground containing 2.94 acres was purchased…