Somerville Cemetery is in Somerville, New Jersey . It is a general name commonly applied to two separately owned and administered cemeteries in Somerville, the "Old Cemetery" and the "New Cemetery".
"Old Cemetery", also sometimes referred to has "Old Raritan Cemetery" has the earliest burials, dating to just after the Revolutionary War. It began as the burying ground of the Dutch Reformed Church and later as the cemetery shared by several of the local church congregations. While a handful of burials are more recent, the majority are from the 19th and 20th centuries.
New Cemetery newcemetery.org is a nonsectarian cemetery owned and operated by the New Cemetery of Somerville Association. It was organized just after the Civil War as a nonsectarian burial ground, designed in the garden cemetery style. It is still an active cemetery. The first burials date from the post Civil War era, although a few earlier can be found, representing re-interments in newer, larger family plots.
Both cemeteries contain burials of persons of local,state, and national note, including many political figures and veterans from every war since the American Revolution. New Cemetery in particular has a large African American section, and many burials of US Colored Troop veterans of the Civil War era. Arabella W. Griffith Barlow, nurse of the US Sanitary Commission and wife of Civil War General Barlow is buried in Old Cemetery.
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