Johnson Cemetery, Camden, NJ

JOHNSON CEMETERY, CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Granted to Jacob Johnson, Anthony Collings and Luke Derrockson in a deed dated January 20, 1854, Johnson Cemetery is the resting place for many important African Americans, among them W. Miles Butts, the first Black policeman of Camden, New Jersey.  It also is the burial place of more than 107 Black veterans of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, and World War I.

A database is available that lists interment records and provides the deceased persons name and death date, as well as other available information.  (See Module 10:  Research Information, for more about the database.)

SOURCE:  GREENBERG, GAIL, JOHNSON CEMETERY, OREM, UT: ANCESTRY, INC., 1998

JOHNSON BLACK CEMETERY, U.S.C.T., CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY (c. LAWRENCE E. WALKER FOUNDATION)

JOHNSON BLACK CEMETERY, U.S.C.T., CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY (c. LAWRENCE E. WALKER FOUNDATION)

JOHNSON BLACK CEMETERY, U.S.S. SOUTH Y. AHGEHT., (died April 17, 1893) U.S.C.T., CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY (c. LAWRENCE E. WALKER FOUNDATION)