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A child's grave: Paul Newton. Son of Lewis and Jane Apgar. 1864.
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An 1867 grave stone broken and stacked into 3 pieces.
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Leaning into its neighbor as if to whisper.
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James Van Pelt's 1878 grave stone... broken and lying in state.
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One of a few leaning grave stones, only this one is surrounded by other broken markers and accompanied by what looks like a burrow hole from a groundhog... or a sink hole.
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Another broken grave marker with another burrow or sink hole near it. Its missing top piece was covering a sink hole near another grave.
Another grave stone broken in three and completely off its pediment.
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Higgins family graves.
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Forgive me, but is there a party goin' on in this monument? Too good to pass up. Someone on the Weird NJ message board told me that this one is a zinc grave and that if smacked, you will hear a ping like a bell. Metallic resonance from the afterlife?
Harlingen Reformed Church Cemetery. Belle Mead, NJ. July 2007.