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Cemetery Rules
Due to the current status
of the cemetery, please abide by the following rules and regulations when you visit the cemetery
- Visiting hours daily from dawn to dusk.
- No vehicles, pets, or unauthorized gatherings (cars should be parked at the curb
and visitors should walk in through the front gates).
- No flowers, plantings, or adornments due to current high cost of removal/disposal and
lack of regular maintenance funds.
- Holiday flowers or blankets permitted December only and must be removed by January
1st
- On the day of a funeral, three flower arrangements may remain at grave side
but must be removed by the family within one week.
- ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Location:
161 S. Broad Street, Penns Grove, Salem Co., NJ, USA
in the part of Upper Penns Neck Township originally known to the town founders as "Helm's Cove". The town
of Penns Grove is located in the northwest part of Salem County and is situated on the Delaware River.
Mailing address: PO Box 161, Penns Grove, NJ 08069
DIRECTIONS
From 295 N or S:
Exit 4 Penns Grove/ Woodstown, take 48 E (to Penns Grove, becomes Main St) to 3rd red light. Turn
left onto Broad Street. Find the cemetery about 3 1/2 blocks on left (past Willis Street) across from Methodist
Church.
From Rt. 130 S:
Follow 130 S (becomes N. Virginia Ave), just past old DOD defense depot in Pedricktown take the right fork
onto N. Broad Street, follow to the first light (center of Penns Grove at Main St.), go through light, find
cemetery 3 1/2 blocks on left (past Willis Street) across from Methodist Church.
From Rt 130 N:
Take 130 N (Shell Rd) into Carney's Pt. to YMCA (on left) & Middle School (on opposite corner). Make
the left turn in front of the Middle School onto E. Maple Ave, follow it 2 blocks to Broad St., make right
onto Broad Street. Cemetery is 1 1/2 blocks on right across from Methodist Church.
PARKING
Park on Broad Street across from church and enter on foot through front gate. Cars are not currently permitted
in the cemetery due to the narrow one-way drive and prior damage to stones. There is no back exit.
This page and the project is a work in progress. Please contact us for/ with information or to make a
contribution or to donate time to the clean up/ restoration effort.
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We welcome anyone interested in joining the project. Your help in any capacity will greatly help
the restoration effort. Please contact us by email or snail mail.
We are asking that any family or relatives forward to us (by mail or email) copies
of burial records, plot deeds or name of current deed holder, or death certificate (or any family history) that may assist
us in our efforts to restore and complete the records for the cemetery.
Please send inquiries about your loved ones to our PO Box or email address and we will respond
as quickly as possible.
We want to thank those who have donated to the restoration project. Thanks to donations from families
and concerned citizens, we were recently able to purchase a lawn mower and weed whacker which will be a great help.
Your continued support will help us achieve our goal of restoring this historic cemetery to it's earlier peaceful splendor
and honoring those who rest within it's gates.
- Thank you to our volunteers whose tireless work has enabled the first part of the restoration project to continue. Our
current Executive Board includes: D Adams, B Wolfer, K Dingley, B Sayers, and C Sayers
- Special thank you to Natalie "Dolly" Adams whose tireless energy and dedication initiated this project and keeps
it moving forward.
- Special thank you to the J-Boys www.thejboys.com who have so generously mowed and cleared the cemetery grounds since 2006 free of charge.
They have additionally cleared several large brush stumps and tree limbs. We greatly appreciate their help and
continued support. Their generousity exemplifies the best in business practices.
- Thank you to Saul's Lawnmowers who sold us our push mower at cost.
- Thank you to the families and friends of James Farrish, Dorothy Boyd Justice, Elsie Justice, Charles "Cy" Margerum
Jr, Florence Cook Driver, and Elizabeth Cook Swing who requested/ made donations to the cemetery
in lieu of flowers in the memory of family members.
- Thank you to E Sickler and W & C Sickler for the memorial donations in memory of Uriah, Hannah,
Anna, and Edward Diver.
- Thank you to Edward Townsend and Winifred Wakefield who made a generous donation in the memory of John Edward Townsend.
- Thank you to those who have donated money to the cleanup and restoration project: JW&J Raine,
M Carty, WF&C Sickler, B&D Wolfer, A Friant, E Keyes, American Legion Post 181, FL Nicholas, E Leap, J&M
Baitinger, J Kruszewski, JE Compton, D&R Cook, L Pote, B. McCormick, C Carty, M Carty,D &G Lodge, E Perlmutter,
C Foulke, G&D Lodge, L Pote, H&D Friant
- Thank you to those who have called Dolly for information or attended the general interest meetings in
2004, 2005, 2006 and who have shared their files, time, etc (not already listed above): W Summerill for his
records, D&K Kapuscinski, RT Walters, J Hogate, J Nazar, H Demaris, J Rice, T McDonough, W Gruner, D Lewis,
W Shockley, D Orner, M McDermott, K Howells, S&C Foulke, W&S Shockley, and S Ryan
- Thank you to all of the families who have shared their family records to help us restore our files
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