This Obscure New Jersey Cemetery Is The Resting Place Of One Of History’s Most Famous Americans

Grover Cleveland was buried here in 1908. The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, he was the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–89 and 1893–97). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

Born in Caldwell, Grover Cleveland also happens to be the only president from New Jersey. However, President Woodrow Wilson also has ties to the Garden State - he served as both governor of New Jersey and president of Princeton University. Cleveland is buried beside his wife Frances and daughter Ruth, after whom the Baby Ruth candy bar is named.

Aaron Burr was the third Vice President of the United States but is notoriously known for killing Alexander Hamilton at the Weehawken Dueling Grounds. He was born in Newark and died in Staten Island, though was interred here with his father. Aaron Burr Sr. was a Presbyterian minister and the second president of Princeton University.

Famous Americans buried here include Richard Stockton (governor and namesake of Stockton University), Paul Tulane (Tulane University benefactor), and John Witherspoon (signer of the Declaration of Independence). You'll find Civil War generals (David Hunter), philosophers (David Kellogg Lewis), and artists (William Willet) eternally resting in this peaceful place, along with Nobel Prize winners (Eugene Paul Wigner), and clergymen (John MacLean, Jr., the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey). If the name David Hunter rings a bell, it may be for his role in ending slavery or perhaps because he led the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Still an active graveyard, burial inquiries are welcome. More recent additions to the cemetery include wealthy entertainment executives, Jose and Mary Louise Menendez, buried in 1989. Murdered by their own sons, Lyle (21) and Erik (18), you may remember the high profile trial that took place in 1994. Both boys were convicted to life in prison with no possibility of parole.