According to a paragraph on page 53 of
Matawan and Aberdeen: Of Town and Field, by Helen Henderson, of the Matawan Historical Association, found at Google Books, the Rose Hill Cemetery was established in 1858 on land previously owned by
Joseph Rose, my third great-grandfather. The cemetery's highest point is where the Joseph Rose family plot is located and from there, you can see Raritan Bay and the skyline of New York City. My guess is that it has to be when the leaves are not on the trees (or before many of those trees were there), as we couldn't see those sites when we visited there a couple of weeks ago.
Having been told that the Rose family plot was at the highest point, we drove through the cemetery until we found it. While I took close up pictures with my iPhone and my son found half-buried, unreadable gravestones, my husband captured the plot from the side.
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| Rose Family obelisk |
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| My third great-grandparents |
Joseph Rose
Born
Oct. 25th, 1809,
Died
Dec. 4th, 1877
His Wife
Frances Stanton Willet
Born
Jan 20th, 1807,
Died
Oct. 26th, 1893
See
Joseph Rose's Find A Grave memorial, which has links to the memorials for
his wife Frances and a few of his children, as well as a link to a memorial for his father
Joseph Rose (1770-1852) at this same cemetery.
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