Family cemetery unearthed

CLEVELAND

Posted By: Jo (email)
Date: 6/5/2007 at 21:28:35

STEAM SHOVEL CREW UNEARTHS FAMILY CEMETERY

Workmen operating the steam shovel with the construction crew at the Lakehurst dam yesterday unearthed four marble slabs bearing inscriptions which while somewhat obliterated by long being under ground, were clearly legible and indicate that they marked the graves of members of a Cleveland family who passed away in 1865.

For some time we were unable to find anyone who remembered a family by that name residing at what was then Pinhook, but finally we located a party who told us that he recalled a family by the name of Cleveland who made their home on the north side of the river just west of the old dam, Mr. Cleveland being in the employ of Poff and Nickerson who then conducted woolen mills near there. In those early days there was less formality used in the burial of the dead than in later years, and it is probable that a portion of the home site was set aside as the family cemetery and used as such.

ARTICLE DATE: July 11, 1927
SOURCE: Private collection of newspaper clippings