Category: Exploring Historic Bergen County

Voorhis-Lozier-Demarest Family Burial Ground Genther Avenue Oradell, NJ 07649

Voorhis-Lozier-Demarest Family Burial Ground Genther Avenue Oradell, NJ 07649

Voorhis-Lozier-Demarest Burial Ground

Genther Avenue

Oradell, NJ 07649

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1875079/voorhis-lozier-demarest-cemetery

Click to access historic_preservation_plan_element-jan_12-2010.pdf

Open: Sunday-Saturday Dawn through Dusk

My review on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g46706-d33246110-r1011336224-Voorhis_Family_Burial_Grounds-Oradell_New_Jersey.html?m=19905

The Voorhis Family Burying Ground was once part of the extensive farm owned by Henry Van Voorhis. This small burial plot houses this branch of the family and sits in what used to be the southeastern section of the farm. Now it sits behind a small house in need of a good lawn cutting.

The historic sign of the Voorhis Burying Ground

The inside of the Voorhis Burial Ground

What is sad about these small family cemeteries is that I am sure that the families never thought to the future when the land would be sold off and the family would move on. The Voorhis and Demarest names still dot the landscape of Bergen County but these tiny plots are lost to the current generations.

The gravesite of Lucas Van Voorhis

The grave of Mary Demarest, who was the wife of James

The one thing that I like about this particular cemetery is that someone in town had done their research on this cemetery and each grave marker was tastefully recreated in separate historic signs right next to the graves as the tombstones have worn out over the years.

The grave of Hannah Voorhis

The grave of Henry Van Voorhis, the first person buried in the site.

This was the first person buried here and the former owner of the farm, Henry Van Voorhis, whose line of the family had once owned this farm of several hundred acres.

The grave of Ouselche Voorhis

The grave of Cornelius Voorhis. I could not believe how many small children were buried in these cemeteries.

I was impressed by how organized and well researched this cemetery was with all the markers. I just needs a good lawn cutting.

The grave of Albert Voorhis, son of the Revolutionary veteran, Albert Voorhis

The grave of Henry Voorhis Sr,

The full view of the cemetery as I was leaving

This quiet and respectful looking cemetery now sits in the back of someone’s home looking lost and forgotten but when you really look at all the historical signs and read them to yourself, their memories still linger on. The family will never truly be forgotten.

DeWolf-Haring Cemetery 84 DeWolf Road Old Tappan, NJ 07675

DeWolf-Haring Cemetery 84 DeWolf Road Old Tappan, NJ 07675

DeWolf-Haring Cemetery

84 Dewolf Road

Old Tappan, NJ 07675

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1617475/dewolf-haring-cemetery

https://ldsgenealogy.com/NJ/Old-Tappan.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haring%E2%80%93DeWolf_House

Open: Sunday-Saturday Dawn through Dusk

My review on TripAdvisor:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Profile/R4960NKjustinw/mediabatch/13615617?m=19905

The DeWolf-Haring family cemetery sits on a homeowners front yard

The DeWolf-Haring Cemetery is one of the most unusual of the small cemeteries in Bergen County that I have seen. It sits right in front of someone’s front yard.

The cemetery probably at one time sat at the very edge of the farmland which is now a golf club and a neighborhood of McMansions. It shows the progress of the area as the farmland was sold off.

The gravesite of John Haring

The DeWolf-Haring family; grandparents and grandson

It was interesting that the last person buried here was the wife of Martin DeWolf’s grandson. I am still trying to figure out how they had funeral services on the edge of someone’s front lawn.

The Haring family graves

The grave site sits in front of someone’s driveway

The cemetery is nicely maintained and treated with great respect. I am not sure by either the town or the homeowner.

Old Tappan Cemetery Washington Avenue North Old Tappan, NJ 07675

Old Tappan Cemetery Washington Avenue North Old Tappan, NJ 07675

Old Tappan Cemetery

Washington Avenue North

Old Tappan, NJ 07675

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1427593/old-tappan-cemetery

https://genealogy.fredquest.com/cemeteries/nj-oldtappan-eckersonfarm/index.html

https://ldsgenealogy.com/NJ/Old-Tappan.htm

Open: Sunday-Saturday: From Dawn to Dusk

My review on TripAdvisor:

The Old Tappan Cemetery is still an active cemetery even though its location in the woods surrounded by McMansions.

The oldest part of the cemetery sits on the highest bluff overlooking the woods and the street. The Eckerson family burial plot is located here with graves dating back to before Revolutionary War.

The Old Tappan Cemetery sits on a hill in the woods

The oldest part of the cemetery sits on the very top of the hill overlooking the neighborhood

The site houses the graves of the Eckerson and Haring families

The Eckerson family graves

The Wortendyke branch of the family

The graves of Revolutionary War veteran Cornelius Eckerson and his wife, Elizabeth Haring. It looks like someone stole Cornelius’s headstone.

The Eckerson Haring Wortendyke family plots

Within the confines of the property, there were even modern graves of the Eckerson family dating back to about twenty years ago. The Eckerson family is still buried here in the Twenty-First century.

Haring Family Cemetery Meadow Lane Norwood, NJ 07648

Haring Family Cemetery Meadow Lane Norwood, NJ 07648

Haring Family Cemetery

Meadow Lane

Norwood, NJ 07648

https://dutchgenie.net/bergen/DutchDoorGenealogy/Norwood-NJ-Haring-Burial-Ground.html

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2425899/haring-family-cemetery

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~njbergen/cemetery.html

Open: Sunday-Saturday Dawn to Dusk

My review on TripAdvisor:

The entrance to the Haring Family Cemetery

The cemetery is in a quiet corner between two house in what was once the Haring Farm

The family that is buried here:

(From the Dutch Door Genealogy website)

When some of this property, which originally had belonged to Abraham Jans Haring
according to the Zabriskie genealogy, was sold in 1785, ownerhip of the burial plot
was retained, and is described as being one square chain, which is 66 feet on each
side.
HARING FAMILY BURIAL PLOT AT NORWOOD, BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.
ON THE PROPERTY NOW KNOWN AS THE ALLISON FARM.

10718  Abraham J. Haring    d.1.1.1801  b.9.30.1720  a.80.3.1 (Tap. #358)

       Broken stone

10719  David P. Haring      d.9.15.1853   a.78.3.18  (Tap.#2418)

10720  Lydia Zabriskie  w. of        (Sch.p.186)
       David P. Haring      d.12.30.1869  a.89.4.13

10721  Peter D. Haring      d.4.2.1864   a.56.7.22  (Tap.#3727)

10722  Betsey Bogert   w.
       Peter D. Haring      d.12.31.1890   a.79.4.6

10723  Ruth Haring          d.3.3.1876    a.0.2.14

10724  Bessie Haring        d.10.2.1877   a.0.7.24

Betsey Bogart Haring and Peter Haring

Ruth and Bessie Haring who died as children

The tombstone of Cornelius Haring (I could barely read this)

David Haring and another Haring family member

The family cemetery sits quietly in the woods

The Haring family buried together RIP