This cemetery is located on Cherry Street in Lebanon, Hunterdon County, NJ. When the Lebanon Reformed Church burned down, they chose to rebuild on Brunswick Avenue in Lebanon. This transcription comes from the collection of Beulah Gangaware.
The German Rockaway now Lebanon Reformed Dutch Reformed Church was established in the area of Lebanon and Potterstown between 1731-1747. The exact date and location unknown.
Three buildings have stood upon the Cherry Street site, the first of which was a log church built approximately 1780. The second was of frame – 1790.
In 1793 the graveyard wall was built, the third building erected on this site was constructed of brick in 1817.
Within the cemetery the oldest recorded tombstone dates to 1769 – the oldest found to date is 1771.
JOSEPH CRATE
died
Sept. 3, 1863
Age 68 yrs. 10 mo. and 21 days.
ANN BIGGS
wife of
JOSEPH CRATE
Died May 9, 1887, aged 87 years.
PETER E. WYCKOFF
Born 1816 Died 1878
SARAH E., his wife
Born 1820 Died 1905
MARY TEATS, wife of
PETER P. ALPAUGH
died May 19, 1891, aged 82 yrs.
2 mo. and 15 days.
PETER P. ALPAUGH
died
May 30, 1882, aged 73 years
“Mark the perfect man and behold the upright,
For the end of that man is power.”
ANN HOFFMAN
wife of
MORRIS S. WELCH
Died Nov. 21, 1877, Age 84 yrs. 5 mo. and 22 days.
“There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.”
“Whirehouse”
M. S. WELCH
Born Jan. 31, 1810, died May 29, 1886.
“Asleep in Jesus.”
DANIEL S. ALPAUGH
Born June 15, 1862, died Dec. 14, 1896.
ISAAC N. ALPAUGH
Died July 21, 1881, aged 25 yrs. 2 mo. 8 days.
“At Rest.”
TIMOTHY P. ANDERSON
Died Feb. 26, 1852, aged 30 yrs. 9 days.
GEORGE H. ROWLAND
Died May 15, 1882, aged 59 yrs. 10 mos. 18 days.
IN MEMORY OF
GEORGE ROWLAND SEN.
Died Mar. 5, 1860, aged —? 6 mo. 25 days.
“Happy soul they days are ended
All thy mourning days below go by,
Angels guard attended
To the sight of Jesus go.”
ELIZABETH, wife of GEORGE ROWLAND
Died Mar. 29, 1855, aged 66 yrs. 6 mo. 20 days.
“Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end be like his.”
MERCY JONES, wife of
GEORGE S. SHURTS.
MARY, wife of
ELIJAH APGAR, born Oct. 3, 1816
Died Aug. 28, 1888
“Woman thou are loosened from thine infirmity.”
ELIJAH APGAR
Born Mar. 3, 1816,
Died Nov. 25, 1888.
“One generation passeth away
And another generation cometh,
But the earth abideth forever.”
JOHN L., son of
ELIJAH and MARY APGAR
Died Aug. 12, 1861. Aged 5 y rs. 1 mo. 10 days.
WILLIAM CLARK APGAR
182? 1911
IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH, wife of JACOB APGAR
who died
May 1, 1857, age 80 yrs. 3 mo. 17 days.
JACOB A. APGAR
Died Feb. 24, 1846, aged 79th year of age.
GEORGE M. APGAR, son of
WM. C., and LYDIA CATHARINE APGAR
Died Aug. 30, 1851, age 1 yr. 2 mo. ao (sic) days.
Infant daughter of
WM. C., and LYDIA CATHARINE APGAR
Died Oct. 16, 1861.
LYDIA C., wife of (sic)
JACOB and SARAH WOLFE
Died Aug. 16, 1850 – ?
MELVIN BISHOP
Son of GEORGE M. and ELIZABETH CREAMER
Died Sept. 15, 1812, aged 1 yr. 2 mo. 8 da.
“Friend not physician could not save this dying body from the grave;
Nor can the grave confine it here When Christ commands it to appear.”
W. E. Osborn, HackettsT.
HENRY MILLER
Who departed this life in the City of New York
Mar. 18, 1831, in the 30th year of his age
And was interred on this burial ground Mar. 21, —?
PETER H. ROWLAND
Born Feb. 9, 1815 died Apr. 25, 1880
“Death is certain; The hour unseen.”
SOPHIA, wife of
PETER H. ROWLAND
Born Feb. 1, 1816, Died June 14, 1888
“Gone from our home but
not from our hearts.”
JAMES J. SMITH
Died Sept. 5, 1884 aged 74 yrs. 8 mo. 11 days.
Text: Job 14C 14V.
“If a man die shall he live again
All the days of my appointed time
Will I wait till my change comes.”
CATHARINE
Wife of JAMES J. SMITH
Died Oct. 18, 1854, aged 44 yrs. 1 mo. 11 days.
Test: 1st Thess: 4C 14V
“Even so them also which sleep in Jesus
Will God bring with Him.”
ASA ALPAUGH
Died Aug. 23, 1880, aged 47 yrs. 7 mo. 2 days.
“My dear companion has left me
Oh, why has he left me so soon
My Savior must also have loved him
Or He would not have taken him home.”
MARY SMITH
Wife of ASA ALPAUGH
Died Aug. 29, 1895, age 64 yrs. 11 mo. 15 days.
GEORGE
Son of
HERBERT AND MARY APGAR
Died Oct. 10, 1854, age 40 yrs. 5 mo. 15 days
Text: Rev. 22C, 20 V
“Surely I come Quickly
Even so come Lord Jesus.”
MARY
Wife of
HERBERT APGAR
Died Sept. 25, 1854, in the 75th year of her age.
Text: 2nd Cor. 5C, 4 V.
“For we that are in this tabernacle, do groan
being burdened not for that we would be unclothed
but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed
up of life.”
HERBERT APGAR
Died Aug. 30, 1854. In the 75th year of his age.
Text: Job 7C, 10V
“He shall return no more to his house
Neither shall his place know him any more.”
IN MEMORY OF
CATHARINE
Daughter of
DAVID AND ELIZABETH MILLER
Who departed this life on the 10th day
of Oct. 1882, age 20 years.
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY
Daughter of A. J. AND E. A. CRAMMER, who died
June 10, 1855, age 7 years.
The following names on 4 separate stones having no other inscriptions:
AMY PORTER
WILLIAM PORTER
JOHN PORTER
CORNELIA PORTER
MARGARET YAWGER
Wife of
DAVID M. KLINE
Died Feb. 4, 1871, Age 81 years.
Text: Job 3C, 17V
“The weary be at Rest.”
IN MEMORY OF
[No name given!]
Who died Dec. 1, 1843, age 86 years.
“How still and peaceful is the grave
Where life’s vain tumults past,
The appointed house by Heaven’s decree
Receives us all at last.”
ANNA
Wife of
WILLIAM YAWGER
who died
March 25, 1833, aged 54(?) years
[This age uncertain as stone inscription indistinct.]
“Hear what the voice of Heaven proclaims
For all the pious dead
Sweet is the Savior of their names
And soft —- their sleeping bed.”
ANN
Wife of
WILLIAM G. ALPAUGH
Died Sept. 30, 1874, age 55 yrs. 7 mo. 24 days.
“Weep not for me my chjildren
Your loss has proved my gain
My spirit rests with Christ above
Where joys forever reign.”
ELIZABETH JANE
daughter of
WM. G. and ANN ALPAUGH died Sept. 21, 1861
age 13 months.
JOHN WILLIAM
son of
WILLIAM G. and ANN ALPAUGH Died Sept. 9, 1854
Age 4 Mo. 21 Days
JACOB F.
died July 21, 1853
age 13 yrs. 2 mo. 12 days
LUCRETIA C.
died Aug. 27, 1863
age 8 yrs. 11 mo. 25 days
Children of WM. G. and MARY ALPAUGH
Additional Sources
- Genealogical Magazine of NJ, Vol 60, Issue 2-3, 1985
- Genealogical Magazine of NJ, Vol 61, Issue 1-3, 1986