HUMC Cemetery
The Haddonfield UMC Cemetery offers a sacred, peaceful place of prayer, memory, and hope for our church family. We welcome visitors to walk the grounds and honor the generations buried here.
Visiting Hours:
Dawn through Dusk
Interested in purchasing a plot or have a question for the Cemetery Committee? Form responses will be received by the church office and forwarded to the Cemetery Committee for response. Only members of the Haddonfield United Methodist Church may purchase burial sites.
Decorations
The Haddonfield United Methodist Church cemetery is a holy place of prayer and remembrance. To preserve the dignity, peace, and safety of our grounds for all families, we ask visitors to follow our decoration policy. Click below to view allowed arrangements and seasonal plant guidelines.
A Brief History
The Haddonfield Methodist Cemetery occupies the site of the first Methodist Meeting House in Haddonfield. The Meeting House was dedicated in August of 1835. It stood on one acre of land which was sold by Russell Millard and his wife Ruth to the Trustees of the Methodist Church on April 14, 1834, for $180.00 (Gloucester County Deeds, Book N3, pp. 106-7). The lot extended on Kings Highway for 109.5 feet and back towards Evans Pond for a distance of 399.25 feet.
A line drawing of the first Methodist Meeting House in Haddonfield dedicated in 1835.
According to an ad in the Camden Mail and General Advertiser on January 28, 1835 “private burying lots are offered for sale” by the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Burying Ground at Haddonfield who were Russel Millard, Jesse Peterson, Richard Safford, Charles Lippincott, and Thomas Pitman. According to the Sesquicentennial History of the Church, the original one acre site was doubled in size on May 22, 1837 when John Stiles conveyed one acre of property to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the sum of $20.00. This deed (Gloucester County Deeds, Book R3, pp. 408-9) includes the rear half of the current Methodist Cemetery.
Cemetery sign located at the driveway to the cemetery from Kings Highway.
The original Meeting House stood in the circular area in the front of the present cemetery. It was demolished in 1857, and its bricks were said to have been used in the construction of the new church located on Kings Highway at the present day Grove Street. After the 1857 church was dedicated the site of the old church became part of the cemetery and the whole two acre property became the Haddonfield Methodist Cemetery as it still exists today. Burials in the cemetery apparently began in 1835 and continue to the present day with a few lots available for members of the Haddonfield Methodist United Church.
Cemetery entrance facing the circular area once housing the original Meeting House.
Brief history compiled by Kevin Tassini as part of an Eagle Scout project in 2000.
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