Miscellaneous Early Burials
Methodist Cemetery
Randolph Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BURLINGTON AND MERCER COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR PIONEERS
AND PROMINENT MEN
by Major E.M. Woodward & John F. Hageman
EVERTS & PECK
1883
PRESS OF J.B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., PHILADELPHIA
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A burial-ground is located adjacent to the old Methodist
Episcopal Church at Lower Bank, which is supposed to represent
an antiquity exceeding a hundred years. It is not known when
the first burial occurred, or which of the families of the
neighborhood were first called upon to dedicate the spot
to sacred use. The families of Cavileers, Johnsons, Vansants,
and Hall have for years made interments in this ground. There
are many bodies interred here with nothing to mark their
last resting-place except a rudely-shaped field-stone, or
a pine slab, upon which the inscriptions, if any existed, are
now defaced by the elements. Among the legends the following
are copied:
"In memory of Elizabeth, wife of Ezekiel Weeks, who departed
this life April 6th. 1811, aged 79 years, 10 months, and 15 days."
"In memory of Ezekiel Weeks, who departed this life December
27th, 1817, aged 67 years, 10 months."
"In memory of Anna Maria, daughter of John and Elizabeth Cavileer,
who died May 20th, 1817."
"Charles A., son of Nathaniel and Sarah Vansant, died July 7th,
1819."
"Erected in memory of John Cavileer, who departed this life March
29th, 1839, aged 59 years, 12 days."
"In memory of Isaiah Hall, who died January 24th, 1840, aged 52
years, 9 months, and 7 days."
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