Siloam Cemetery
Siloam Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Vineland, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.[1]
Chapel
The cemetery was established in 1864 on a plot of land donated by Charles K. Landis, the founder of Vineland. A chapel was constructed in 1918, and is located in the center of one of the original sections of the cemetery. Many local residents, some of whom were nationally prominent, are buried there.
Notable interments
Gothic arches
- Henry Herbert Goddard (1866–1957), researcher at Vineland Training School
- Mary Treat (1831?–1923), a naturalist who corresponded with Charles Darwin
- Charles K. Landis (1833–1900), founder of Vineland, an attorney, author, and real estate developer
- Thomas Bramwell Welch (1825–1903), developer of Welch's grape juice
- Mary Elizabeth Tillotson (1816–1888), a dress reformer, spiritualist, suffragist, and poet. Tillotson organized the country’s first anti-fashion convention in 1874, and symbolically voted in the first presidential election held after the Civil War.
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