{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox cemetery |name = Hoboken Cemetery |image = |imagesize = 300px |caption = |established = |country = United States |location = North Bergen, New Jersey |coordinates = {{coord|40.788157|-74.025140|region:US-NJ_type:landmark|display=ti}} |type = |owner = |size = |graves= |findagraveid = 100030 |website = }} [[File:Cemeteries In North Bergen.png|thumb|right|Cemeteries on the western slope of the Palisades in northern Hudson County.]] The '''Hoboken Cemetery''' is located at 5500 Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graveinfo.com/NJ/NorthBergen/Hoboken/ |title=Hoboken Cemetery |accessdate=2007-08-26 }}</ref> in the New Durham section. It was owned by the City of Hoboken.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Hоbоken, Hudson county, New Jersey | url=http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v18-10.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050125023012/http://www2.census.gov:80/prod2/decennial/documents/1880a_v18-10.pdf | archive-date=2005-01-25}}</ref> Although appearing well groomed and cared when first arriving at the Hoboken Cemetery, just a short walk in any direction and you will find a different story.<ref name=painful>{{cite news |title=Painful Discovery |publisher=The Bergen Record |date=January 29, 2000 }}</ref> It is bordered by Flower Hill Cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |last= Van Winkle |first=Daniel |title=History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923 |year=1923 |publisher=Higginson Book Company |isbn=0832850675 }}</ref> The Secaucus Junction was built on land that was partially the Hudson County Burial Grounds. The exhumed bodies were to be re-interred at the Hoboken Cemetery, but was later cancelled when the cemetery was found to have been recycling older full graves without tombstones and selling them as virgin plots. The cemetery said it has no record of any bodies being buried in those plots.<ref name=painful/><ref>{{cite news |title=Discovery stalls move of 3,000 remains |publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=August 9, 2003 }}</ref><ref name=exasperated>{{cite news |title= New burial spot needed for remains|publisher=Bergen Record }}</ref>
==Notable burials== * Oscar Louis Auf der Heide (1874–1945), mayor of West New York, New Jersey. * Allan Langdon McDermott (1854–1908), US Congressman. * Henry Otto Wittpenn (1871–1931), mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=H. Otto Wittpenn, Banker, is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/07/26/archives/h-otto-wittpenn-banker-is-dead-new-jersey-manufacturer-and-leader.html|work=New York Times|date=July 26, 1931|accessdate=2007-08-21}}</ref> * Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright (1812–1871), represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district from 1865–1867.<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000758 Edwin Ruthvin Vincent Wright biography], United States Congress. Accessed June 29, 2007.</ref>
==See also== * Machpelah Cemetery * List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.graveinfo.com/NJ/NorthBergen/Hoboken/ Hoboken Cemetery] at Graveinfo * [http://www.robbender.com/gallery/hoboken_cemetery Hoboken Cemetery] by Rob Bender * [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-buried.html#cms00453 Hoboken Cemetery] at The Political Graveyard * {{Find a Grave cemetery}} * [http://newjerseycivilwargravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=9 Civil War gravestones in Hudson County]
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