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From: "Lauren J. Eastwood" <>
Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Cemetery below Flower Hill Cemetery
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:30:50 -0500


Re: "the cemetery in question is below Flower Hill and adjoins it". I suspect you are referring to Hoboken Cemetery, the entrance to which is on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, Hudson County, NJ.

Hoboken Cemetery is in receivership. The receiver is Gary Miller, the manager of Maple Grove Park Cemetery in Hackensack, Bergen County, NJ. His voice mail number is 888-948-9119. I obtained Mr. Miller's name and phone number from the New Jersey Cemetery Board (973-504-6553).

I left one message for Mr. Miller. My phone call was returned within a couple of days. He was extremely pleasant and extremely forthright. More importantly, he told me that I might be able to find the grave of my great-great-grandmother, who was buried there in June 1880, and obtain the information in the plot's internment records in the near future. The pre-receivership caretakers had told me that all pre-1900 records were lost. Mr. Miller found them in the cemetery garage, where they had apparently been for a number of years. He is computerizing the records and creating a plot map of the cemetery. When I spoke to him in February, he told me he hoped to have the records computerized next year. He is unable to allow people to examine the paper records themselves but will be able to do lookups for people when the records are computerized.

Mr. Miller was able to obtain a crew of convicts for several months during the summer of 1998. They cleaned up the old part of the cemetery which was so overgrown that it was literally unwalkable, a fact to which I can personally attest. Hoboken Cemetery was the only cemetery which was assigned convicts that summer. If Mr. Miller has political connections which helped him obtain the convict crew, I think those connections have benefited those of us with relatives buried in the older part Hoboken Cemetery.

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