“The following abstract of inscriptions are from the burying-ground on the north side of the ice pond, about one thousand feet from the ice house at Watchung, North Plainfield township, Somerset County, on the farm formerly known as the Spencer farm, more recently owned by Gerald Underhill and now in part owned by the Plainfield Ice and Supply Co. The inscriptions were taken July 15, 1910, by Mr. Sidney H. Moore…and on November 13, 1915, by Mrs. William B. Van Alstyne…. The differences in dates indicate differences in the copies. This burying-ground is overrun with bushes and weeds, and is at present almost inaccessible.” Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4, October 1916, pp. 299-300. In recent years the citizens of Watchung have fenced the site and maintained it properly. Recent research by your author discloses one additional burial, that of Civil War soldier Oltmann [see The Constitutionalist, 6/5/1886]

Demler, David (son of George and Mary), d. Aug. 25, 1849, aged 2 mos., 25 days

Demler, Mary (wife of George), d. July 27, 1854, aged 23 yrs., 8 mos., 20 days

Demler, Mary (dau. of George and Mary), d. June 16, 1854, aged 1 yr., 9 mos., 26 days

Demler, Mary C. (wife of George), d. Feb. 28, 1857, in 28th yr.

Doty, Henry, d. May 31, 1797, in 30th yr.

[Goodman, Valentine, Co. I,  30th Reg., N.J. Vols. Buried here, but stone not found].

Mirax, Simeon, d. Mar. 16, 1884, aged 40 yrs. (Co. I, 30th Reg., N.J. Vols.; also Co. I, 5th N.J. Vols.)

Mirax, W. L., d. Sept. 24, 1871. (Co. I, 30th Reg., N.J. Vols.)

O’Connor, Maryann, (dau. of Michael and Rachel), d. Jan. 31, 1817, aged 10 mos.

O’Conner, Rachel (wife of Michael and dau. of David and Rachel Stewart), d. Dec. 11, 1816, in 20th yr.

O’Conner, Rhoda, (second wife of Michael and dau. of David and Rachel Stewart), d. Nov. 25 [28?], 1818, aged 20 yrs.

[Oltmann, Gerhard, enlisted 10/16/1862 at New York City as a private, mustered into Co. K, 174th NY Infantry 11/6/1862, transferred 2/17/64 into Co. K, 162nd NY Infantry, final record not given, b. 1823, d. prior to 1885.]

Runyon, Reuben, (son of David B. and Phebe), d. Nov. 17, 1825, in 24th yr.

Smalley, Abigail, (wife of James), d. July 13, 1811, in 66th yr.

Smalley, Jacob, d. Aug. 22, 1836, in 81st yr. VETERAN OF THE REVOLUTION

Smalley, James, d. Feb. 21, 1812, in 70th yr.

Smalley, Tabitha, (wife of Jacob), d. Apr. 18, 1803, in 41st yr.

Stewart, Ann, (wife of William D.), d. Feb. 29, 1848, in 55th yr.

Stewart, David, d. Sept. 23, 1836, in 79th yr.

Stewart, Rachel, (wife of David), d. Oct. 9, 1847, in 85th yr.

Stewart, Samuel, (son of David and Rachel), d. June 26, 1807, in 25th yr.

Stewart, William D., d. Sept. 5, 1865 [1868?] aged 75 yrs., 11 mos., 4 days.

Willet, Lewis, d. Mar. 15, 1822, in 27th yr.

Wilson, Lewis, (son  of James and Ruth Ann), d. Dec. 7, 1847, aged 20 yrs., 7 mos., 28 days.

Wilson, Martha, (dau. of James and Ruth Ann), d. July 27, 1858, aged 26 yrs.

Wilson, Zachariah, (son of James and Ruth Ann), d. Aug. 11, 1858, aged 23 yrs., 6 mos., 4 days.

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