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Old Vanderveer Burying Ground

Somerset County, New Jersey, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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"A number of years ago — nearly twenty — when C. V. Shaddle owned the Daniel R Disborough farm at Roycefield (Mr Disborough having purchased it of Dr Henry Van Derveer, of Somerville), a number of headstones were standing upon the private burying-ground on the place. It was the Dr Lawrence Van Derveer farm in the early part of the last century, and he had made a little corner of it into a "God's acre," wherein he and his family and some relatives might peacefully rest when through with this world's strife. The farm at the time first mentioned was occupied by Garret V. Van Doren, and Mr Shaddle requested him to "clear up the cemetery," meaning that the stones should be buried or removed. As a result Miss Louisa Van Derveer, of East Somerville, now deceased, had various of the gravestones removed to Bedminster, and placed in the cemetery there. There still remained four, and these were buried underground." -- Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol 1, pp 118-19
"A number of years ago — nearly twenty — when C. V. Shaddle owned the Daniel R Disborough farm at Roycefield (Mr Disborough having purchased it of Dr Henry Van Derveer, of Somerville), a number of headstones were standing upon the private burying-ground on the place. It was the Dr Lawrence Van Derveer farm in the early part of the last century, and he had made a little corner of it into a "God's acre," wherein he and his family and some relatives might peacefully rest when through with this world's strife. The farm at the time first mentioned was occupied by Garret V. Van Doren, and Mr Shaddle requested him to "clear up the cemetery," meaning that the stones should be buried or removed. As a result Miss Louisa Van Derveer, of East Somerville, now deceased, had various of the gravestones removed to Bedminster, and placed in the cemetery there. There still remained four, and these were buried underground." -- Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol 1, pp 118-19

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  • Added: 13 Apr 2022
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2751030