Van Liew Cemetery

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Van Liew Cemetery
Van Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick, NJ - general view.jpg
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Coordinates40°28′13″N 74°27′05″W / 40.47028°N 74.45139°W / 40.47028; -74.45139
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The Van Liew Cemetery is located at 585 Georges Road in North Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey. It also has an entrance from Pine Street.[1] The cemetery is one of the oldest in the township.[2]

First Presbyterian Church plot area in Van Liew Cemetery

Around 1966, Alfred Yorston removed 520 bodies from the First Presbyterian Church, New Brunswick's cemetery to Van Liew Cemetery to make way for new construction at that church.[3]

Notable burials[]

References[]

  1. ^ Sarapin, Janice Kohl (1994). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. pp. 130–2. ISBN 0-8135-2111-4.
  2. ^ Clayton, W. Woodford, ed. (1882). "North Brunswick: Burial Places, The Van Liew Cemetery". History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey. Everts & Peck. pp. 753–4.
  3. ^ "The Changing Landscape of North Brunswick". Rutgers University. Retrieved 2007-08-26. Yorston is best remembered for his work in removing the 520 bodies from the New Brunswick Presbyterian Church's cemetery to Van Liew Cemetery to make way for new construction, for his around-the-clock service during the 1918 deadly influenza epidemic, and for his service in connection with the autopsy involving the infamous Hall-Mills murder in neighboring Franklin Township.
  4. ^ Littleton Kirkpatrick, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 1, 2007.
  5. ^ Ilene Dube (April 8, 2014). "For Artist Williams, Every Ruffle and Dollar Mattered". Retrieved August 29, 2021.

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