Old Methodist Cemetery
Town of Bloomfield
Essex County
New Jersey
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Old Methodist Cemetery is located on the west side of Broad Street in the section of Bloomfield Township known as Brookdale, and formerly as Stone House Plains. It is in a strip of woods, and is entirely grown over with vines and brush in the Town of Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey.
The persons mentioned in the following gravestone records are grouped into families so far as the information on the stones themselves will permit, and arranged alphabetically according to the heads of families when practicable. The asterisk (*) indicates that no stone was found for the individual so designated, his name and relationship appearing on the stone of a member of his family.
Old Methodist Cemetery Burials
- ACKERMAN, Henry, died Aug. 11, 1854, age 66 yrs. 11 mos. 25 days; wife Jane, died Mar. 29, 1846, age 55 yrs. 6 mos. 24 days; son David, died May 12, 1842, age 19 yrs. 7 mos. 2 days.
- ACKERMAN, Jacob J.*; wife Christy A.*; son Charles M., died Oct. 7, 1851, age 12 yrs. 7 mos.
- ACKERMAN, James*; wife Jane, died Jan. 20, 1847, age 24 yrs. 7 mos. 17 days.
- BALDWIN, James A.*; wife Nancy, died Apr. 21, 1839, age 22 yrs. 4 mos. 20 days.
- BAUER, Frederick E., born Nov. 4, 1799, died Nov. 8, 1848, age 49 yrs.
- COCKEFAIR, Alexander*; wife Phoebe, died Jan. 9, 1809, age 81 yrs. 2 mos. 2 days.
- COCKEFAIR, Ephraim, born Mar. 26, 1772, "He was instantly killed by a refractory horse" June 22, 1831, age 59 yrs. 2 mos. 27 days; wife Elcy, died Oct. 1, 1851, age 75 yrs. 7 mos.
- COCKEFAIR, Isaac M.*; wife Catharine*; dau. Elizabeth, died ---- 25, 1846, age 9 mos. 4 days (stone broken); dau. Mary, died July 29, 1839, age 3 mos. 22 days.
- COCKEFAIR, John*; wife Jane*; dau. Electta, died Jan. 11, 1825, age 1 yr. 1 mo. 29 days.
- COCKEFAIR, Peter, (See Thomas Cockefair).
- COCKEFAIR, Thomas*; wife Mary, died Jan. 9, 1808, age 41 yrs.; dau. Sarah, died Aug. 10, ---- (stone broken); son John, died Aug. 8, 1788, age 1 yr. 1 mo. 14 days; dau. Mary, died Jan. 19, 1808, age 11 days; son Peter, "drowned" July 24, 1833, age 27 yrs. 3 mos. 8 days.
- CUEMAN, John J., died Mar. 2, 1848, age 50 yrs. 2 mos. 6 days; wife Catharine*; dau. Mary Ann, died Oct. 4, 1821, age 1 mo. 15 days; dau. Leah, died Dec. 14, 1827, age 3 mos. 2 days; dau. Rachel Ann, died Aug. 27, 1828, age 5 yrs. 7 mos. 15 days; dau. Martha, died Mar. 22, 1841, age 6 wks. 3 days.
- GARRABRANT, Abraham, died Dec. 12, 1846, age 26 yrs.
- GARRABRANT, David*; wife Mary M., died Mar. 17, 1838, age 42 yrs.; son William Clinton, died May 19, 1832, age 1 yr. 10 mos. 21 days; dau. Belinda, died Apr. 27, 1833, age 7 yrs. 4 mos. 9 days; "Also two infant sons."
- GARRABRANT, Enoch*; wife Anne*; dau. Catherine Anne, died Oct. 5, 1819, age 6 yrs. 11 mos. 3 days.
- GARABRANT, Garabrant A., died Feb. 23, 1826, age 68 yrs.; wife Sophiah, died Oct. 1, 1820, age 65 yrs.
- GARRABRANT, Garret N.*; wife Elizabeth*; son Calvin, died Mar. 22, 1817, age 1 yr. 3 mos.
- GARRABRANT, Jacob, died Sept. 6, 1835, age 77 yrs. 3 mos.; wife Elizabeth, died Dec. 6, 1840, age 68 yrs.
- GARRABRANT, John G., died Aug. 14, 1842, age 57 yrs.
- GARRABRANT, Nicholas P., died Mar. 23, 1817, age 76 yrs. 4 mos. 11 days; wife Mary, died July 19, 1816, age 76 yrs. 11 mos. 19 days.
- GARRABRANT, Peter, died July 12, 1846, age 28 yrs.
- GARRABRANT, Peter A., died Nov. 30, 1818, age 67 yrs. 7 mos. 28 days; wife Hannah, died July 17, 1812, age 44 yrs. 2 mos. 25 days.
- GARRABRANT, Stephen, died Oct. 21, 1819, age 32 yrs. 6 mos. 6 days.
- GARRISON, Hassel, died Mar. 15, 1852, age 74 yrs.
- INTREST, Christopher, died Sept. 29, 1823, age 80 yrs. 4 mos. 21 days.
- JENKENS, Frederick*; wife Ellen, died Aug. 11, 1846, age 49 yrs. 11 mos. 7 days.
- KIESLAR, John*; wife Catharine Ann (dau. of Henry Ackerman), died Feb. 4, 1856, age 28 yrs. 1 mo. 27 days; son George, died Oct. 19, 1852, age 1 yr. 3 mos. 21 days.
- KILLAM, Lyman S., "a native of Preston, Conn.," died Sept. 18, 1821, age 50 yrs.
- LAWRENCE, Alexander, died Oct. 2, 1820, age 50 yrs. 8 mos. 7 days.
- LAWRENCE, Horatio N., died Apr. 15, 1832, age 20 yrs. 8 mos.
- LAWRENCE, John*; wife Judith, died Oct. 13, 1820, age 88 yrs. 7 mos. 4 days.
- LYONS, William*; wife Margaret Ellen*; son James Francis, died July 22, 1857, age 11 mos. 11 days.
- MANDEVILLE, Christopher*; wife Elsey, died July 12, 1850, age 52 yrs. 1 mo. 27 days.
- MESSLER, Abraham C.*; wife Gertrude, died Mar. 26, 1851, age 50 yrs. 6 mos.
- MOOR, Jane, born Nov. 6, 1764, died Apr. 22, 1846.
- PARSONS, Walter*; wife Harriet*; son Radcliff, died Apr. 7, 1846, age 3 mos. 7 days; dau. Elizabeth, died Nov. 19, 1847, age 3 yrs. 1 mo. 11 days.
- POST, Adrian H., died Apr. 21, 1855, age 79 yrs. 2 mos. 26 days; wife Sarah, died Nov. 21, 1851, age 71 yrs. 3 mos. 18 days.
- POST, Edward*; wife Ann Garrabrant, died June 9, 1861, age 22 yrs. 5 mos.
- REYBERT, Nelson, "Co. E. 1st N. Y. Eng's."
- SIGLER, Isaac D., died Nov. 8, 1873, age 78 yrs. 7 mos. 26 days; wife Sophia, died Apr. 19, 1863, age 68 yrs. 4 mos. 15 days; dau. Lucy, died June 18, 1847, age 20 yrs. 6 mos. 9 days; dau. Eunice, died May 26, 1834, age 3 yrs. 2 mos. 8 days; dau. Eunice, died Sept. 26, 1821, age 3 yrs. 1 mo. 7 days.
- SIMONSON, Anthony*; wife Rhoda*; dau. Lucy Frances, died Sept. 17, 1858, age 13 yrs. 10 mos. 28 days.
- STAGER, Peter, died May 6, 1860, age 66 yrs. 6 mos. 13 days.
- VAN GESEN, Ephraim*; wife Abigail*; dau. Lydia, died July 22, 1804, age 4 yrs. 4 mos. 6 days; son Joseph, died Mar. 14, 1814, age 23 yrs. 1 day; dau. Margaret, died Mar. 11, 1826, age 31 yrs. 9 mos.; dau. Lydia, died Mar. 6, 1798, age 4 mos. 24 days.
- VAN GESEN, Joseph*; wife Lydia*; son Joseph, died July 15, 1827, age 13 yrs. 5 mos. 20 days.
- VAN GESEN, Joseph, (See Ephraim Van Gesen).
- VAN GIESEN, Isaac, died May 23, 1804, age 69 yrs.; wife Mary, died Mar. 3, 1830, age 83 yrs.
- VAN GIESEN, Peter, son of Abraham and Jane (Sandford) Van Giesen, died June 11, 1845, age 84 yrs.
- WALDE, James, died May 23, 1818, age 22 yrs.
- WELTMER, John*; wife Catharine M.*; dau. Margaret E., died June 10, 1856, age 8 yrs. 7 mos. 12 days.
- WHITE, John B., died Apr. 2, 1838, age 34 yrs.