Voorhees Burying Ground
Town of Readington
Hunterdon County
New Jersey
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Voorhees Burying Ground is located about four miles north of Flemington on the road from Packer's Island to the Woods M. E. Church in the Town of Readington, Huntingdon County, New Jersey. This lot was conveyed May 12, 1854, by deed recorded in Volume 110, page 118, by Ralph V. Smith and Sarah M., his wife, to "John B. Sharp and Joseph Carkhuff, together with the descendants of the following named persons whose bodies have been buried in the lot of ground herein conveyed, viz., Joseph Hankinson (the elder), Benjamin Allegar, Sr., John Huffman, Folkard Voorhees, Cornelius Bowman, Adrian Kinney and Jacob Smith." It contains about a quarter of an acre. It has also been known at various times as the Hankinson, Kinney and Smith Burying Ground from the name of former owners of the farm and of the families represented there, according to the temporary prominence of the name.
Voorhees Burying Ground Burials
- ALLEGAR, Amanda M., dau. of John L. and Hannah M., born Dec. 12, 1888, died Mar. 6, 1889.
- ALLEGAR, George, born Feb. 18, 1824, died Oct. 3, 1883.
- ALLEGAR, John L., Co. E., 3rd U. S. Cavalry, born 1833, died 1906.
- ALLEGAR, Nicholas O., died July 15, 1828, age 55 yrs. 2 mos. 27 days.
- ALLEGAR, Rebecca Cole, wife of Thomas, died Apr. 10, 1871, age 82 yrs. 29 days.
- ALLEGAR, Thomas, died Jan. 7, 1867, age 80 yrs. 4 mos. 16 days.
- BOWMAN, Cornelius, died Nov. 16, 1826, age 73 yrs. 9 mos. 17 days.
- BOWMAN, Cornelius, Jr., son of Cornelius and Mary, died Aug. 17, 1818, age 43 yrs. 7 mos. 16 days.
- BOWMAN, Mary, wife of Cornelius, died Feb. 22, 1824, age 67 yrs. 4 mos. 18 days.
- CARKHUFF, Elizabeth Saxton, wife of Wesley, died May 22, 1883, age 49 yrs. 7 mos. 8 days.
- CARKHUFF, Jemima, wife of Joseph, died May 10, 1882, age 71 yrs. 8 mos. 26 days.
- CARKHUFF, Job, son of Joseph and Jemima, died July 12, 1845, age 11 yrs. 6 mos.
- CARKHUFF, Joseph, died Mar. 22, 1892, age 86 yrs. 12 days.
- CARKHUFF, Margaretta, dau. of R. V. and Sarah M. Smith, wife of Henry Carkhuff, died Nov. 6, 1888, age 43 yrs. 2 mos. 5 days.
- CARKHUFF, Sarah C., dau. of Joseph and Jemima, died Apr. 19, 1853, age 5 yrs. 19 days.
- CARKHUFF, William Henry, son of Joseph and Jemima, died Feb. 3, 1818, age 1 yr. 11 mos. 1 day.
- COLE, Elizabeth, died Jan. 4, 1868, age 87 yrs.
- COLE, Gertrude, wife of Michael J., died June 30, 1884, age 74 yrs. 6 mos.
- COLE, John A., died Jan. 30, 1887, age 76 yrs. 5 mos. 28 days.
- COLE, Mary Allegar, wife of John A., died Dec. 19, 1891, age 82 yrs. 1 mo. 5 days.
- FRANK, Jacob, died 1766.
- GRAHAM, Isaac, died Jan. 8, 1777, age 21 yrs. (The Pennsylvania records show that he was a private in Capt. James McClure's Company, Col. William Montgomery's Regiment of the Flying Camp, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Fort Washington, Nov. 16, 1776, exchanged Jan. 3, 1777.
- HANKINSON, Eliza, dau. of Joseph and Catharine, died July 8, 1833, age 1 yr. 8 mos. 21 days.
- HANKINSON, Hannah, wife of Joseph, died Feb. 7, 1833, age 85 yrs.
- HANKINSON, Hannah, wife of Thomas, died May 4, 1833, age 61 yrs.
- HANKINSON, Joseph, died Sept. 12, 1783.
- HANKINSON, Joseph, died Nov. 30, 1825, age 81 yrs., (Captain, Fourth Regiment Hunterdon Co. Militia, 1774-1780. Was at battle of Monmouth).
- HANKINSON, Joseph, died Apr. 26, 1838, age 39 yrs. 7 mos. 21 days.
- HANKINSON, Joseph, born 1835, died 1905.
- HANKINSON, John, died May 20, 1823, age 80 yrs.
- HANKINSON, Rachel Mattison, wife of Joseph, died Mar. 28, 1784.
- HANKINSON, Thomas, died May 7, 1833, age 61 yrs.
- HOAGLAND, Cecily Allegar, wife of William, died Mar. 6, 1858, age 31 yrs. 2 mos. 15 days.
- HOAGLAND, William, died May 25, 1868, age 48 yrs. 10 mos. 11 days.
- HOAGLAND, William H., died Apr. 11, 1888, age 31 yrs. 1 mo. 15 days.
- HOFFMAN, Catharine Wyckoff, widow of David, died Dec. 23, 1845, age 74 yrs. 25 days.
- HOFFMAN, David, died Nov. 11, 1843, age 78 yrs.
- JOHNSON, Jacob, son of Daniel and Matilda, died Apr. 18, 1861, age 9 mos. 7 days.
- KINNEY, Adrian, died Aug. 6, 1827, age 46 yrs. 2 mos. 2 days.
- KINNEY, Asher A., born Sept. 21, 1808, died June 28, 1880.
- KINNEY, Elizabeth Stout, wife of Asher, born July 30, 1812, died Jan. 16, 1895.
- KINNEY, George, died Apr. 6, 1820, age 4 yrs. 6 mos. 2 days.
- KINNEY, Hannah H., died May 11, 1877, age 87 yrs. 6 mos.
- KINNEY, Jane H., born Dec. 16, 1823, died Oct. 21, 1886.
- KINNEY, Margaret P., born June 20, 1826, died Dec. 21, 1910.
- KLINE, Mary, wife of Peter, died Feb. 8, 1824, age 28 yrs. 2 mos. 23 days.
- M'DONALD, Sarah C. Hoagland, wife of James H., died Feb. 6, 1870, age 21 yrs. 2 mos. 23 days.
- SAXTON, Elizabeth, wife of Wesley Carkhuff, died May 22, 1883, age 49 yrs. 7 mos. 8 days.
- SMITH, Infant, son of Ralph V. and Sarah M., died Aug. 17, 1852.
- SMITH, Annah Emma, dau. of Ralph V. and Sarah M., died Apr. 24, 1872, age 14 yrs. 6 mos. 9 days.
- SMITH, Catharine Voorhees, wife of Jacob, dau. of Faulkerd and Margaret Voorhees, died June 16, 1824, age 55 yrs. 11 mos. 14 days.
- SMITH, Jacob, died Sept. 10, 1851, age 68 yrs.
- SMITH, Margaret, dau. of Jacob and Catharine, died May 22, 1835, age 23 yrs.
- SMITH, Martha Probasco, wife of Jacob, died Sept. 10, 1866, age 72 yrs. 7 mos. 29 days.
- SMITH, Ralph V., born July 23, 1818, died Oct. 11, 1898.
- SWEARER, Eleanor A. Smith, widow of Peter, died Jan. 3, 1874, age 58 yrs. 2 mos. 24 days.
- SWEARER, Eleanor Maria, dau. of Peter and Eleanor, died June 4, 1863, age 8 yrs. 8 mos. 7 days.
- SWEARER, Peter, died May 12, 1855, age 46 yrs. 3 mos. 6 days.
- VOORHEES, Filkerd, son of Abraham and Elizabeth, died May 10, 1822, age 66 yrs. 3 days.
- VOORHEES, Margaret, widow of Fulkerd, died Mar. 2, 1846, age 87 yrs.
- VOORHEES, Margaret, dau. of Folkard and Margaret, died Aug. 17, 1811, age 15 yrs.
- VOORHEES, Ruelf, died Apr. 12, 1843, age 57 yrs. 4 mos. 21 days.
- VOORHEES, Serurn, son of Rulif and Mary, died Feb. 25, 1835, age 23 yrs. 3 or 8 mos. 25 days. (Stone broken).
- WALDRON, Samuel E., born Feb. 3, 1829, died Feb. 13, 1906.