Evergreen Cemetery and Crematory is a cemetery and crematorium located at 1137 North Broad Street, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey. Parts of it are in Hillside, Elizabeth, and Newark.

The cemetery is listed on both the New Jersey Register and the National Register of Historic Places, since 1991.

Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey)

Notable graves include authors Stephen Crane, Mary Mapes Dodge and Edward Stratemeyer. Six former U.S. Congressmen (including one who became Senator) and one non-voting delegate (from Alaska) are buried there as well.

Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey)

The cemetery also is known for having a section of plots devoted to Romani "gypsy" families.

Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey)

It is adjacent to Weequahic Golf Course.

King of the Gypsies was filmed there with Shelley Winters.

Notable interments

James Vote Bomford (1811–1892), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General

William Brant Jr. (1842–1898), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient

John Brisbin (1818–1880), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district, 1851 William Chetwood (1771–1857), U.S. Representative from New Jersey at-large, 1836–37 Adoniram Judson Clark (1838–1913), Civil War Union Army officer Amos Clark Jr. (1828–1912), U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district, 1873–75 Stephen Crane (1871–1900), author; known for his war novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895) Barton Wood Currie (1877–1962), American journalist and author Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905), author; known for her novel Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1865) James M. Drake (1837–1913), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient George F. Houston (1896–1944), Broadway and Hollywood actor Adolphus J. Johnson (1815–1893), Civil War Union Army officer Phineas Jones (1819–1884), represented New Jersey's 6th congressional district, 1881–83 Abraham Kaiser (1852–1912), businessman and politician John Kean (1852–1914), U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 3rd congressional district, 1883–85, 1887–89; United States Senator from New Jersey Rufus King Jr. (1838–1900), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient William J. Magie (1832–1917), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court 1880–1900, serving as Chief Justice from 1897 to 1900 Luther Martin (1827–1863), Civil War Union Army officer Edward Stratemeyer (1862–1930), author and creator of The Hardy Boys (1927) and Nancy Drew (1930) book series Charles August Sulzer (1879–1919), delegate to U.S. Congress from Alaska Territory, 1917–19 William Sulzer (1863–1941), Governor of New York in 1913 who was impeached and removed from office later that year Homer W. Wheeler (1848–1930), U.S. army officer and author

See also

List of cemeteries in New Jersey

List of people from New Jersey

References

External links

Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey) Website

Interment information at the Political Graveyard

Year of establishment missing

Cemeteries in Union County, New Jersey

Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey

Crematoria in the United States

Geography of Elizabeth, New Jersey

Hillside, New Jersey

National Register of Historic Places in Union County, New Jersey

Romani in the United States

Buildings and structures in Elizabeth, New Jersey