Bramhall, Walter M. d. December 28, 1913 Civil War Union Army Officer. He commanded the 6th Battery, New York Independent Volunteer Light Artillery, during the Civil War. He was mustered in as a 1st Lieutenant of the Battery (which was recruited in Rahway, New Jersey) soon after the start of the war. Stationed first at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, Walter Bramhall led a section of the battery at the Union disaster at Ball's Bluff, Virginia in October 1861. When the unit's first commander resigned on the eve of the 1862 Peninsular Campaign...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge) Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Brown, Harvey b. September 6, 1795 d. March 31, 1874 Civil War Union Brevet Major General. An 1818 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, he fought in the Mexican War, and was Colonel of the 5th United States Artillery when the Civil War started. He was offered a Volunteer Brigadier General commission, which he turned down to remain in the Regular Army. He rendered valuable service when, while commander of Fort Pickens in Florida, he repulsed Confederate attempts to capture his command. In July 1863, while...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge) Hazelwood Cemetery, Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, USA Plot: Section B, Lot 102
Clark, Abraham b. February 15, 1726 d. September 15, 1794 Declaration of Independence Signer. Born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, he was the son of a farmer, and grew up with an affinity for the common person. Too sickly to do heavy farm labor, he learned to become a surveyor, surveying land boundaries, and would later put that experience to work when he became a lawyer. He was called the "Poor Man's Counselor" because of his defense of poor farmers in land cases, where he worked for little or no fees. About 1749, he married Sarah Hatfield, with...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson) Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, USA
Unknown Woman d. March, 1887 Victorian Murder Mystery. A gravestone inscribed "An Unknown Woman, Found Dead, March 25, 1887" bears mute testimony to a notorious unsolved murder. The victim, described by police as a young woman in her early 20's with blue eyes and brown hair, was found frozen in the mud on Rahway's Central Avenue early on the morning of March 25, 1887, her throat slashed and her face badly beaten. She had worn a feather-trimmed green dress, yellow gloves, "foreign good shoes", jewelry, and a fur cape, and...[Read More] (Bio by: Nikita Barlow) Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, USA Plot: Originally isolated
Wells, Carolyn b. June 18, 1862 d. March 26, 1942 Author of mystery stories. She created the character of 'Detective Fleming Stone' and she wrote, "The Fleming Stone Omnibus" (1933). Several of her books have been turned into films, "Dearie" (1927), "The Woman Next Door" (1919), "The Mark Of Cain" (1917), "The Countless Charming" (1917), and "He Got There After All" (1917). (Bio by: K) Rahway Cemetery, Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, USA
b. September 6, 1795 d. March 31, 1874