Rosedale Cemetery (Orange, New Jersey)
Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery located at the tripoint of Orange, [West Orange, New Jersey|Orange, New Jersey|West Orange] and Montclair townships in the Essex County of the U.S. state of New Jersey. Cyrus Baldwin drew up the original plan for the cemetery in 1840.
Notable interments
- Platt Adams, American Olympic athlete and member of the New Jersey State Assembly from Essex County
- Jim Barnes, golfer
- John L. Blake, represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district from 1879 to 1881
- Dudley Buck, organist, composer, and writer
- Samuel Colgate, founder of Colgate-Palmolive
- Lee Crystal, drummer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Member
- Mary Fenn Robinson Davis, a spiritualist and feminist who was a poet, author, editor, and lecturer
- Sarah Jane Corson Downs, president, New Jersey Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- Charles Edison, son of Thomas Edison and the 42nd Governor of New Jersey
- Frank Emil Fesq, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Wilfred J. Funk, lexicographer
- Althea Gibson, the first African American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour
- Henry Judd Gray, murderer of Albert Snyder
- George Huntington Hartford, Mayor of Orange, New Jersey, from 1878 to 1890 and owner of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, the country's largest food retailer at the time of his death
- Frances Cox Henderson, wife of Governor James Pinckney Henderson of Texas, retired in East Orange, established Good Shepherd home for aged women
- James Curtis Hepburn, physician, philologist, and missionary
- George Inness, painter
- George Inness Jr., painter
- Frank Louis Kramer, cyclist
- Hazel May Kuser, Radium Girl
- Mary Artemisia Lathbury, poet and hymnwriter
- Amelia Maggia, Radium Girl
- Lowell Mason, hymn composer and music educator
- Quinta Maggia McDonald, Radium Girl
- Charles Follen McKim, architect
- George W. Merck, pharmacist, president of Merck & Co.
- John Pingry, minister, founder of the Pingry School
- Ruth A. Saxer, Radium Girl
- George J. Seabury, chemist and pharmacist
- Michelle Thomas, American actress best known for roles in Family Matters and The Cosby Show
- George C. Tichenor, member and president of the Board of General Appraisers
- Aaron B. Tompkins, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- Martha Van Marter, editor and writer
- William A. Wachenfeld, Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1946 to 1959
- George James Webb, composer
- William H. Wiley, represented New Jersey's 8th congressional district from 1909 to 1911
- Earl Williams, professional baseball player
- Three British Commonwealth war servicemen – a Royal Air Force officer and Canadian Army Sergeant of World War I and a Canadian airman of World War II