Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery
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Bayview Cemetery, previously called Greenville Cemetery, is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It merged with New York Bay Cemetery and is now known as Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery.[1][2][3]
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| Established | 1848 |
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| Country | United States |
| Type | Protestant |
History
The cemetery was built in 1848. It is located in the Greenville Section near Danforth Avenue Station. A former turnpike, the Bergen Point Plank Road, now Garfield Avenue, runs through the cemetery.
The cemetery contains a memorial and plots of several employees of the Cunard Shipping Line.[4] Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957.[5]
The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County.[6]
Notable burials
- Bob Shannon (radio personality)(1948–2023), DJ and radio personality for WCBS-FM classic oldies and hits station[7]
- Paul Broeser.[8]
- Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman (1926–2004), Liberian university president
- Glenn Dale Cunningham (1943–2004), Mayor of Jersey City[2]
- William Davis Daly (1851–1900), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1899 to 1900.[9][10]
- Edward Irving Edwards (1863–1931) Governor of New Jersey.[11]
- George Bragg Fielder (1842–1906), American Civil War veteran and politician[12]
- Edward Hoos (1850–1912), Mayor of Jersey City.[2]
- James W. McCarthy (d. 1872), first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty[13]
- Arthur Harry Moore (1879–1952), 39th Governor of New Jersey who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941.[14][15]
- Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), American opera singer
- George Lawrence Record (1859–1933), lawyer[2]
- Joe Simmons (1845–1901), buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a Major league baseball player and manager.[16]
- Robert G. Smith (1854–1923), American colonel and politician
- Edward Faitoute Condict Young (1835–1908), banker, manufacturer and politician.[2]
- One Commonwealth war grave, of a World War I seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.[17]
- Bob Shannon (1948-2023)
- Joseph Zito (elevator operator) (September 1, 1883 – October 22, 1932), Elevator Operator and hero of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire