Garret & Mary Van Blarcom -North Hardyston Cemetery, Hardyston, NJ, USA - Zinc Headstones on Waymarking.com

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Garret served in the War of 1812. He died from a fall from a haymow by which his back was broken.

The VanBlarcom family came to this country from Holland, the first American ancestor settling in Bergen County, New Jersey, where he continued to live to the time of his death, having served as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Garret VanBlarcom, a son of the founder of the family in America and grandfather of the subject of this article, was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, about 1780. He was a mason by trade, but spent the latter years of his life farming in Sussex County. He served in the War of 1812 and died in 1834. He married, about 1804, Mary DeGraw, a member of Huguenot family, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, North, and a devout Christian woman, who survived her husband for thirty years, dying in 1864 at the age of eighty years. They were the parents of four children: 1. Samuel, born in Bergen County, in 1805, continuing to live there until 1820, when he came with his parents to Sparta, Sussex County. There he followed farming throughout his life. He married, in September 1829, Elizabeth Gunderman, a daughter of Peter Gunderman, of Sparta, where she was born in 1911. They were the parents of eight children. 2. William, of whom further. 3. Susan, who married L.L. Conkling. 4. Mary Ann, who married J.F. Dunn.

Date of birth (optional): 01/01/1780 Date of death (optional): 12/02/1834 Headstone text (optional): Front: GARRET VAN BLARCOM, DIED DEC. 2ND 1834, AGED 53 YEARS. MARY WIFE OF GARRET VAN BLARCOM, DIED SEPT. 19TH 1864, 80 YEARS OF AGE. Back BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD Additional Coordinates (optional): Not Listed Website: Not listed

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