Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery
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.
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. Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957.
The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County.
Notable burials
- Paul Broeser.
- Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman, Liberian university president
- Glenn Dale Cunningham, Mayor of Jersey City
- William Davis Daly, represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1899 to 1900.
- Edward Irving Edwards Governor of New Jersey.
- George Bragg Fielder, American Civil War veteran and politician
- Edward Hoos, Mayor of Jersey City.
- James W. McCarthy, first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty
- Arthur Harry Moore, 39th Governor of New Jersey who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941.
- Lillian Nordica, American opera singer
- George Lawrence Record, lawyer
- Joe Simmons, buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a Major league baseball player and manager.
- Robert G. Smith, American colonel and politician
- Edward Faitoute Condict Young, banker, manufacturer and politician.
- One Commonwealth [War Graves Commission|Commonwealth war grave], of a World War I seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
- Bob Shannon