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

• Bob Shannon (radio personality)(1948–2023), DJ and radio personality for WCBS-FM classic oldies and hits station
• Paul Broeser.
• Mary Antoinette Brown-Sherman (1926–2004), Liberian university president
• Glenn Dale Cunningham (1943–2004), Mayor of Jersey City
• William Davis Daly (1851–1900), represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district from 1899 to 1900.
• Edward Irving Edwards (1863–1931) Governor of New Jersey.
• George Bragg Fielder (1842–1906), American Civil War veteran and politician
• Edward Hoos (1850–1912), Mayor of Jersey City.
• James W. McCarthy (d. 1872), first Jersey City Fire Department firefighter to die in the line of duty
• Arthur Harry Moore (1879–1952), 39th Governor of New Jersey who served three separate terms as governor between 1926 and 1941.
• Lillian Nordica (1857–1914), American opera singer
• George Lawrence Record (1859–1933), lawyer
• Joe Simmons (1845–1901), buried under his birth name of Joseph S. Chabriel, was a Major league baseball player and manager.
• Robert G. Smith (1854–1923), American colonel and politician
• Edward Faitoute Condict Young (1835–1908), banker, manufacturer and politician.
• One Commonwealth war grave, of a World War I seaman of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Bob Shannon (1948-2023)
• Joseph Zito (elevator operator) (September 1, 1883 – October 22, 1932), Elevator Operator and hero of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

See also

• 2019 Jersey City shooting
• Hudson County Cemeteries

References

External links

• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at Cemetery Junction
• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
• Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery at Grave Info