Tag: cemetery

MIDDLETOWN – A nearly 200-year-old cemetery in the township recently received approvals to construct a new graveyard, which has some Oak Hill area residents concerned.

What does a historic church, with a graveyard dating to the early 1700s, do when it runs out of burial room? For Christ Church in Shrewsbury, part of the borough’s notable Four Corners which dates to pre-Revolutionary War times, the answer lies in something even older: the columbarium.

Rob and Keith Shomo at the Cedar View Cemetery gravesite of their second great-grand uncle, Silas Reeves Jr., a U.S. Colored...

By Rick Geffken | SHREWSBURY – If you’re whistling past Shrewsbury’s Christ Church graveyard next year, it won’t be out of superstitious fear. You’ll probably...

By Muriel J. Smith LINCROFT – A Monmouth University professor and her students are leading the way to restore long-forgotten 19th century cemetery to a...