Wells Farm Burying Ground
| Originally published in the Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Volume 3, 1914, page 302. By John J. De Mott, Metucken, NJ There are three burying grounds along the Easton Turnpike between New Brunswick and Bound Brook, on the south side of the Raritan, and an abstract of the inscriptions they contain are as follows: On the farm of Floyd Wells, one-third mile west of Smalley Farm burying ground. This ground is in a fenced enclosure, in a field. It show evidence of care. The stones, though old, are erect and clean. Conover, Michael, d. Nov. 3, 1825, aged 34 yrs., 11 mos., 3 dys. Conover, Capt. John, d. July 23, 1837, aged 66 yrs., 19 dys. Conover, Phebe (wife of John and dau. of Rulif and Catherine Voorhees), d. Dec. 16, 1804, aged 24 yrs., 6 mos., 20 dys. Conover, Joseph, d. April 6, 1814, in 75th yr. Conover, Mary (wife of Joseph), d. July 2, 1798, aged 54 yrs. Conover, Peter (son of Joseph and Mary), d. May 6, 1791, aged 21 yrs., 2 mos., 14 dys. Conover, Garret (son of Joseph and Mary), d. Nov. 4, 1809, in 27th yr. Conover, Mary Ann (dau. of John and Eleanor), d. Dec. 2, 1834, aged 20 yrs., 4 mos., 10 dys. Rappleyea, Allice (dau. of Joseph and Eliza), d. Feb. 1, 1842, aged 5 yrs. Van Wickle (flat brick tomb, brown stone slab on top, reading): "On the 3rd Day of March, 1757 Evert Van Wickle and Cornelia his wife accompanied each other to the Land of Spirits. One Grave contains their ashes & this Stone is erected over it by their only Child Ann, then an Infant, but now the Wife of Abraham Beach, D. D." |
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