Hopper Family Burial Ground
Spottswood Road
Glen Rock, NJ 07452
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1593990/hopper-family-burying-ground
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=36966
Open: Dawn to Dusk
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The Hopper Family Burial Ground
The Hopper Family Burial Ground sign
The Hopper family burial ground once sat between two branches of the Hopper family farms and was the resting place for members of both extended families.
The graves date back to before the Revolutionary War to the late 1800’s. It now sits between the suburban neighborhood in Glen Rock, NJ and one of the town’s elementary schools.
The grave of Elizabeth Alyea, the last person to be buried here in 1867
The grave of John Van Embury, whose wife was a member of the Demarest family.
The grave of Jess Demarest mostly is covered
These graves of the Hopper family were covered by grass.
The grave of John Hopper
Raham Hopper and his wife, Maria Goetschius graves
The Hopper family graves
The grave of Henry Hopper
The John Hopper family grave
https://www.glenrockhistory.org/post/2017/06/17/john-a-hopper-and-the-civil-war
Except for the last person to be buried here in 1876, all the tombstones were laid flat. Most have been overgrown by weeds and grass.
No one has been maintaining this cemetery or edging the tombstones so the cemetery is hard to study. Most of the graves were grown over or in bad shape.
The cemetery needs some work and a little TLC but still a reminder of the important part of our Country’s history.
Those buried in the Hopper Cemetery:
(Genealogical Society of Bergen County website)
| Name | Date of Death | Age at Death | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Hopper | Feb 2, 1839 | 88y, 3m, 27d | |
| Jacob Demarest | Dec 22, 1832 | 11y, 3m | Son of James & Ann Demarest |
| Peter Hopper | Aug 28, 1818 | 73y, 6m, 26d | |
| John VanEmburgh | July 13, 1852 | 28y | Son of James J. and Anna Demarest |
| Maria Hopper | Mar 30, 1851 | 4y, 6m, 13d | Daughter of Garret H and Eliza Hopper |
| Theunis Hopper | July 29, 1854 | 4y | Child of Garret H. And Eliza Hopper |
| Eliza Spear | Mar 5, 1897 | born Feb 7, 1814 | Wife of Garret H. Hopper |
| James J. Demarest | Aug 6, 1849 | 56y, 7m, 2d | |
| Henry J. Hopper | Feb 5, 1849 | 42y, 1m, 22d | |
| Sophia Courter | Mar 4, 1860 | 84y, 6m, 16d | wife of Aaron Courter |
| Aaron Courter | Feb 28, 1862 | 85y, 2m, 5d | |
| Caroline Hopper | Oct 25, 1897 | 78y, 1m, 28d | |
| Maria Goetschius | June 15, 1889 | 79y, 2m, 12d | wife of Abraham H. Hopper |
| Garret H. Hopper | Jan 10, 1870 | 60y, 1m, 8d | |
| Peter Hopper | Mar 3, 1879 | 73y, 4m | |
| Ann Hopper | Dec 27, 1888 | 74y, 7m, 17d | |
| Henry G. Hopper | June 22, 1859 | 24y, 3m, 13d | |
| Dorcas Ackerman | Aug 11, 1866 | 92y, 11m | wife of Garret P. Hopper |
| John A. Hopper | May 25, 1863 | 22y, 6m, 14d | Civil War casualty |
| Henry P. Hopper | Mar 28, 1870 | 85y, 11m | |
| Abraham Hopper | Mar 20, 1856 | 48y, 6m | |
| Elizabeth Ann Hopper | Mar 10, 1868 | 19y, 7m, 17d | |
| Garret J. Hopper | Sep 12, 1876 | 55y, 1m, 23d | |
| Eliza Westervelt | Oct 22, 1894 | 68y, 8m, 22d | wife of Garret J. Hopper |
| Garret P. Hopper | May 12, 1852 | 82y, 3m, 13d | |
| Albert J. Hopper | Nov 5, 1818 | 38y, 11m, 28d | |
| Elizabeth Ackerman | Jan 17, 1864 | 87y, 1m, 8d | wife of Henry P. Hopper |
| Jacob Demarest | Apr 23, 1829 | 65y, 8m, 27d | |
| John J. Lydecker | Aug 14, 1846 | 52y, 10m, 4d | |
| Sarah M. Hopper | June 2, 1819 | 30y, 12m, 12d | Wife of James Williams |
| John H. Hopper | Aug 7, 1859 | 71y, 2m, 7d | |
| Mary Voorhis | Apr 7, 1870 | 84y, 1m, 20d | wife of John H. Hopper |
| Clarence Williams | July 19, 1873 | 2 months | Son of James and Sarah Williams |
| Baby | May 4. 1828 | 2 months | Son of Garrett and Jemime VanWagoner |
| Catherine Hopper | Aug 9, 1838 | 40y, 11m, 12d | wife of John J. Lydecker |
| Kacia Demarest | Aug 4, 1849 | 76y, 3m, 27d | |
| Ann VanEmburgh | Apr 19, 1833 | 35y, 10m, 14d | wife of James Demarest |
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