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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/goodspeedhist/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Twice in his career, Egbert T. Bush wrote about a small family burying ground in Delaware Township. The first time was in 1911, in a paper presented to the Hunterdon County Historical Society which was later published in the Hunterdon County Democrat. This was many years before Mr. Bush became a regular contributor to the Democrat.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n The second time Mr. Bush turned his attention to this graveyard was twenty years later in 1931. He included it in his article \u201a\u00c4\u00faThe German Baptist Church and Vicinity<\/a>,\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 which I published as part of my article \u201a\u00c4\u00faThe German Baptist Church in Amwell.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9<\/p>\n In his first paper Mr. Bush began by describing what has come to be known as the Moore Cemetery. Since that cemetery has already had lots of attention (See “A Stroll Through the Moore Cemetery<\/a>” and “The Moore Cemetery<\/a>“), it seemed appropriate to focus on the other cemetery that Mr. Bush mentioned. He wrote:<\/p>\n There is another cemetery not too far away from the Moore Cemetery, now called the Jones Cemetery because it is located on the farm that once belonged to Capt. David Johnes, a Revolutionary War veteran. That cemetery probably predates Johnes\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 ownership; he and his wife Hannah are buried in the Presbyterian cemetery in Mt. Airy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have a few reasons for writing about this cemetery now, the first being that one of the people buried there has a connection with Gershom Lambert, who I mentioned in my previous article, \u201a\u00c4\u00faThe Lawshe House<\/a>.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9<\/p>\n Another reason is that I just recently discovered Mr. Bush\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s article while reorganizing my own papers. With it was a draft of an article on the cemetery that I never finished. That was because I was too uncertain about its location. Fortunately, Bob Leith, the great advocate for preserving Hunterdon\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s small burying grounds, was able to show me exactly where it is. From this I learned that Mr. Bush was mistaken when he wrote that the cemetery was located on the farm of Capt. David Johnes. I will have more to say about that in my next post.<\/p>\n Mr. Bush began his article with a description of the cemetery\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s appearance when he visited it, probably in 1910:<\/p>\n The burial ground slopes sharply southward, and is now overgrown with forest trees. Rough stones, mostly unlettered, mark many of the graves. A few have rude initials or dates cut upon them. On entering this sacred if neglected spot in company with the well-known antiquarian, Mr. Cyrus Van Dolah, of Sandy Ridge, our attention was first drawn to a stone with this inscription:<\/p>\nJohn & Mary Hart<\/h3>\n