Volunteers Needed To Help Restore Family Graveyard In Bayville

BAYVILLE, NJ - A group of dedicated volunteers will try and bring back a little of Bayville history on Saturday morning, when they start a cleanup of the Rogers Family burial ground on Bell Street, right behind the Bayville ShopRite, said Steven Baeli, a local historian, member of the Berkeley Township Historical Society and creator of the Ocean County Compendium of History.

The cemetery was dedicated by Historical Society members almost 40 years ago, on August 28, 1977. Some of the headstones are crooked and the area in general is full of brush and debris.

Volunteers are asked to dress for the weather and watch for ticks, spiders and poison ivy.

"Let's be prepared just in case," Baeli said. "If we should need a second day or if it should rain we can also include Sunday the 18th," he said.

The little cemetery is off Veeder Lane, less than a mile from traffic-choked Route 9 in Bayville. Rogers family members were laid to rest beginning in 1816 through 1861.

All images: Courtesy of Steve Baeli