Gravelly Graveyard - Brick, NJ
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N 40° 03.719 W 074° 07.120
18T E 575162 N 4435008
Gravelly Graveyard, also known as Old Wooley Cemetery, is the oldest cemetery in the boundaries of present day Brick Township.
Waymark Code: WM58AC
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2008
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This graveyard measures 100x100 and is on a plot overlooking the Metedeconk River and has graves dating from the late 1700s to 1901. There are less than 100 graves here, but amongst them are: Enoch Jones, who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and who helped defend Toms River during a battle with British forces; Issac Elmer, a Township Overseer and veteran of the War of 1812; and one of the first township committee members in 1850, William S. Johnson.
The site is fenced off with a white picket fence, and there is an orientation plate outlining the names and plots in the cemetery. The site is peaceful, on a dead end on Fairview Ave, off busy Princeton Avenue, and has a beautiful overlook of the shallows of the Metedeconk River.
Earliest Burial: 01/01/1812
Latest Burial: 06/19/1901
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