Veterans' Commission & Veterans' Interment

Office:	P.J. Paten 99 West Broad Street Bridgeton, NJ 08302
Phone:	(856) 459-3071
Fax:	(856) 455-5794
E-Mail:	pamelapa@co.cumberland.nj.us
Contact:	P.J. Paten, Director

Joseph Hampton, Vineland	2010	Matthew Jordan, Vineland	2010	Ernest Cuff, Bridgeton	2012
Hartley Tucker, Vineland	2010	Robert Garcia, Vineland	2010	Robert Wolfe, Vineland	2012
Carl Biletta, Vineland	2010	Cheryl Trawick, Bridgeton	2010	Edwin Brady, Vineland	2012
Clarence Zane, U. Deerfield	2010	Glenn Nickerson, Millville	2010	Carl R. Biletta, Vineland	2012

The responsibilities of New Jersey counties with respect to burial of veterans are specified in New Jersey Statute 38:17, most sections of which date back to 1902. The law provides that the boards of freeholders in the counties are responsible for the burial of veterans and the decoration of all veterans' graves on Memorial Day. As per 38:17-2 (1912, last amended in 1950), veterans' interment responsibilities in each county are directed by the Supervisor of Veterans' Interment, who is appointed by the board of freeholders.

A 1945 addition to the law, the "Act concerning registration of veterans' graves. . ." (38:17-12, last amended in 1946), states that the Supervisor is responsible for keeping registration records of veterans' graves. The Supervisor is "charged with the duty of keeping the records up-to-date; of assembling, recording, checking, correcting and filing any and all records, charts or maps concerning the location within his county of the places of burial of veterans of all wars.

This cemetery was established in 1999, by the Cumberland County Chosen Freeholders. To be buried here, you must have been a member of the military or married to a member of the military.