Princeton Cemetery is located in Borough of Princeton, New Jersey. It is owned by the Nassau Presbyterian Church. John F. Hageman in his 1878 history of Princeton, New Jersey refers to the cemetery as: "The Westminster Abbey of the United States."

Notable burials

• Archibald Alexander (1772-1851), theologian
• George Wildman Ball (1909-1994), diplomat
• George Dashiell Bayard (1835-1862), Civil War General
• Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), bookshop owner
• John Berrien I (1712-1772), owner of Rockingham (home)
• Aaron Burr (1756-1836), politician
• Aaron Burr, Sr. (1716-1757), reverend
• Alonzo Church (1903-1995), mathematician
• Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), President of the United States
• Frances Cleveland (1864-1947), first lady
• Ruth Cleveland (1891-1904), first daughter and candy Baby Ruth
• Edward Samuel Corwin (1878-1963), professor
• Samuel Davies
• Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), theologian
• Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870)
• John Huston Finley (1863-1940), New York Times
• George Horace Gallup (1901-1984), pollster
• Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), mathematician
• Charles Hodge (1797-1878), theologian
• David Hunter (1802-1886), Civil War General
• Joseph Karge, Civil War General
• George Frost Kennan (1934-2005), diplomat
• David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001), philosopher
• Jose Menendez murdered by Lyle and Erik Menendez
• Kitty Menendez murdered by Lyle and Erik Menendez
• Moses Taylor Pyne (1855-1921), owner of Drumthwacket
• Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919), Civil War General
• William Drew Robeson (1844-1918), father of Paul Robeson
• Henry Norris Russell (1877-1957), astronomer
• William Milligan Sloan, Olympic committee
• Howard Alexander Smith (1880-1966), Senator from New Jersey
• John Potter Stockton, Senator
• Richard Stockton (1764-1828), Senator from New Jersey
• Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866), naval officer
• Lyman Strong Spitzer (1914-1997), astronomist
• John Renshaw Thomson, Senator
• William G. Thompson, Mayor of Detroit
• Paul Tulane (1801-1887), Tulane University benefactor
• John von Neumann (1903-1957), mathematician
• Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, theologian
• Canvass White (1790-1834), engineer and inventor
• Eugene Paul Wigner (1902-1995), physicist
• John Witherspoon (1723-1794), signer of Declaration of Independence
• Kevin Patrick York, September 11 attack victim
• Andrew King, Septemter 11 attack victim

External links

• Princeton Online: Princeton Cemetery
• A photographic tour through Princeton Cemetery
• Findagrave: Princeton Cemetery

Cemeteries in New Jersey | Princeton, New Jersey | Mercer County, New Jersey