Garrison-Tharp Cemetery, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Jacqueline Wells Lubinski http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************* Garrison-Tharp Cemetery, Garrison Court off County Road 579, Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, NJ. Surrounded by white picket fence. Transcribed by Jacqueline Wells Lubinski September 2003 This cemetery was cleaned up and restored as a Boy Scout Eagle Scout Project over the months of May to September 2003 by Eagle Scout Christopher Neil and the Scouts and families of Bethlehem Twp. Boy Scout Troop 191, Hunterdon Co., NJ James Garrison b. February 1767 d. December 1825 Dinah Robins b. October 9, 1772 d. May 31, 1857-wife of James Garrison John Garrison - son of James and Dinah - b. January 12, 1792 d. December 12, 1851 Martha Titus b. Abt. 1790 d. July 2, 1866-wife of John Garrison John Garrison - son of John and Martha - b. May 24, 1832 d. June 8, 1845 Joseph Jarrard b. Abt. 1767 d. December 17, 1818 Mary (unknown) b. October 13, 1775 d. February 18, 1857-wife of Joseph Jarrard Susannah Jarrard - daughter of Joseph and Mary - b. June 20, 1807 d. July 15, 1874 Ephraim Tharp b. March 8, 1803 d. January 31, 1874-husband of Susannah Jarrard James Tharp - son of Ephraim and Susannah b. July 22, 1836 d. January 22, 1845 Ann Tharp – daughter of Ephraim and Susannah b. May 28, 1838 d. February 28, 1845 George Tharp - son of Ephraim and Susannah b. May 16, 1846 d. August 17, 1851 (The original head and footstones for Ephraim and Susanna Jarrard Tharp were found buried adjacent to the newer single granite stone for both Ephraim and Susannah. These have been reseated next to the newer stone. Susannah's was broken in half and 8 feet away from the newer stone as if it were thrown; however both pieces were able to be set in the ground.) John Hunt b. abt. 1768 d. May 16, 1854 (In the 1850 Federal Census for Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County, NJ he is living with the family of John H. Case and wife Elizabeth Bennett Case whose daughter Sarah is married to Jonas Robins-son of Jonathan and Charity Lawshe Robins whose farm is next door. This Jonathan Robins is the 1st cousin of Dinah Robins.) Mary Huff Robins b. abt. 1764 d. February 13, 1817, wife of Jonathan Robins, Jr. (Jonathan Robins Jr. is the brother of Isaac Robins – the father of Dinah Robins. Jonathan and Mary Huff Robins are the Uncle and Aunt of Dinah Robins. The headstone was found in the ground covered by 1 inch of dirt, next to upright slate stone that is in poor condition and unreadable which may be Jonathan Robins, Jr.. This is the oldest burial evident in the cemetery so far.) An unreadable stone next to Mary Huff Robins which may be her husband Jonathan Robins, Jr., b. about 1742, who is the brother of Isaac Robins and Uncle to Dinah Robins Garrison. The stone is in very poor shape. It is slate in which the front has peeled off and no readable inscription can be seen. Joseph Loughhead b. January 13, 1820 in Ireland d. abt. 1851 (The stone is very worn and barely readable with baking soda. In the 1850 census Federal Census for Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon Co., NJ he is listed as born in Ireland and his wife's name is Margaret b.1822 in New Jersey. He is living next door to Jonathan Robins and wife Charity Lawshe Robins who is the 1st cousin of Dinah Robins who owned the property that the Garrison-Tharp Cemetery is on. There is no headstone visible for wife Margaret in the Garrison-Tharp Cemetery.) James Young b. November 19, 1822 d. September 13, 1823 (His headstone is badly cracked slate. It is unknown at this time as to who his parents are or his relationship to the Garrison, Robins, Tharp, and Jarrard families in the cemetery.) There are numerous marker stones in 4 rows in the cemetery with no inscriptions on them, which may be just footstone markers. The Jonathan Robins with wife Charity Lawshe Robins that is the 1st cousin of Dinah Robins is buried with his wife in the Robins Cemetery, Route 579, Alexandria Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ, which is ½ mile south of the Garrison-Tharp Cemetery on Route 579 across the road on the original homestead property of Dinah Robins’s father Isaac Robins. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me. Thanks, Jacqueline Wells Lubinski jwlube@ptd.net