
This project is for those interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
The 40 acre cemetery is Newark's oldest cemetery, established in 1844 by the legislature of New Jersey. It is located on 375 Broadway.
Notable Interments
- Peter Ballantine (1791-1883) - Businessman
- Seth Boyden (1788-1870) - Inventor
- Joseph P. Bradley (1813-1892) - Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
- Mary Eliza Ingersoll (Compton) - (1847-1930) - Titanic Survivor
- Bvt. Brig. Gen. Gilbert William Cumming (1817-1877) - Union
- John Fairfield Dryden (1839-1911) - US Senator
- Mary Jane Edison (Stilwell) - 1855-1884) - Thomas Edison's 1st wife
- Samuel A. Ward (1848-1903) - Composer of "America the Beautiful"
Links
Street to the Left (blog)
You Don't Know Jersey (blog)