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