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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
======================================================

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."
Pennsylvania Marriage Announcements Collection

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