http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/05/03/learning-from-the-dead-using-jersey-citys-cemeteries-as-a-window-to-history/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2009/05/03/learning-from-the-dead-using-jersey-citys-cemeteries-as-a-window-to-history/comment-page-1/#comment-2731 JWisner Thu, 07 May 2009 02:55:11 +0000 http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/?p=3418#comment-2731 Urban blight unfortunately affects not only the living but the deceased. The remarkable work of Eileen Markenstein and all the volunteers working on the Harsimus/Jersey City Cemetery should be commended on the wonderful turn around of this great place in Jersey City History. Bob Murgittroyd has also done an herculean job in trying to restore The Speer Cemetery. Through these efforts and that of the Hudson County Geanlogical Soceity, the residents of these cemeteries may be gone, but not forgotten. Urban blight unfortunately affects not only the living but the deceased. The remarkable work of Eileen Markenstein and all the volunteers working on the Harsimus/Jersey City Cemetery should be commended on the wonderful turn around of this great place in Jersey City History. Bob Murgittroyd has also done an herculean job in trying to restore The Speer Cemetery. Through these efforts and that of the Hudson County Geanlogical Soceity, the residents of these cemeteries may be gone, but not forgotten.

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