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From: "Linda J. Kissinger" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Obscure Graveyards-Ruple/Rupel
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:55:23 -0400


Hi Beverly and Everyone,

I noticed your list of small family cemeteries included the Ruple/Rupel
Cemetery on Route 625, Alexandria Twp. Could someone in the area please post
the list of those interred there. My line is Adam and Katharine Geist
Ruppel, d. 1904 and 1918, John and Sarah Runyon Ruple, d. 1916 and 1945.
Other children of Adam and Katharine were George, d. 1896,
Elizabeth(Lizzie), d. 1900, and Mary, d. 1886.

Thanks for any help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:13 AM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Obscure Graveyards


>Thank you, Andrew, for your response.
>
>I will take the advice and begin to photograph and transcribe the
>headstones in the THARP / GARRISON cemetery at Bethlehem Township.
>These records will be submitted to the Hunterdon County Historical
>Society at Flemington in Hunterdon County for future reference.
>
>As we know, in the "olden days" Hunterdon was primarily an
>agricultural area. Farmers usually had large families, and maintained
>between 150 to 250 acres per farm. Many of these familys buried there
>loved ones (and slaves) on the farm itself, often with crude markers
>or none at all.
>
>Presently, residential development is *booming* in Hunterdon. The old
>farms are being sub-divided and sold off to developers, who try to put
>as many expensive homes on one site that local zoning laws will allow.
>In fact, there is an article this week in the Hunterdon Democrat
>whereby one of these old farms in Union or Alexandria Township is
>under threat of condemnation. A local school board wants to build a
>new school on the site. The elderly farmer is pictured in a
>wheelchair, suffering from MS, just wanting to keep his property
>within his family. However, the school board and township contend
>that their actions are for "the public good". Again, a battle was
>lost to maintain an old farm on Creagar Road in High Bridge. And now,
>we have a nice new golf course there. I suppose this is called
>"progress".
>
>For those interested, here is a list of little-known, small family
>cemeteries that I know of in my area. I believe all of them are
>located on private property.
>
>Robbins Family Cemetery - Route 579, Union Township
>Ruple / Rupel Cemetery - Route 625, Alexandria Township
>Tharp / Garrison Cemetery - Route 579, Alexandria Township
>Vanderbelt / Vanderbuilt Cemetery - Route 519, Alexandria Township
>
>Please send a message to the list if you know of others.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
>Holland Township, HC, NJ
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew Johnson" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 9:25 AM
>Subject: [NJHUNTER] Graveyards
>
>
>> Dear Beverly Kirby-McDonough:
>> I am not versed in the local situation in New Jersey nor of
>its
>> laws but I do know what can happen. Where residential development
>> begins to encroach and where a cemetery is uncared for, the
>gravestones
>> will disappear and all information concerning the dead interred
>there
>> will be forever lost. The only real solution to the problem is to
>> photograph each and every headstone and preserve the information
>> thereon. If you have the means to do that in this case or know of
>> someone who could do that and then turn in the work to one of the
>active
>> genealogical societies for permanent preservation, by all means do
>it.
>> If laws can be passed which would make such graveyards
>> historical sites, they need to be passed if they are not already on
>the
>> books. Our heritage stands in jeopardy if these graveyards are not
>> preserved and recorded. I hope you can do something to do this.
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Andrew Johnson
>>
>> <>
>>
>>
>>
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