Ocean County , NJ History

Ocean County Observer 4 Jun 2006

Beatrice is another burial in the Barnegat Hill Cemetery. There was an article in the Asbury Park Press on 11 Jan 2009 about the Rose Hill, or Barnegat Hill, Cemetery. The Keith family is mentioned in this article: "On a cold and rainy day in early January, no time to be tramping around an old cemetery at dusk, Greg Ronan has come to explain a few things about this place. It is important to him. "The last one buried here was over a year ago," he says. "Tyrone dug the grave. He dug all the graves. He dug the last one, right over there." Ronan walks over to a light-colored patch of dirt that remains unmarked. Tyrone Palmer died last year. After he died, Yvonne Calhoun, his longtime partner, moved to Georgia to live with her daughter. Barnegat Hill Cemetery, once known as Rose Hill Cemetery, had lost the last of its caretakers, its last trustee. Now it's just a small lot, maybe three-quarters of an acre, surrounded by a chain-link fence. Many of the grav...