Friends Meeting House Cemetery – Union County – United States

Friends Meeting House Cemetery is in Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, behind the Friends Meeting House near Watchung Avenue and East Third Street. It is also known as Plainfield Burial Ground and is associated with the Rahway and Plainfield Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation whose present meeting house dates to 1788. ([familysearch.org](https://www.familysearch.org/is/cemeteries/sites/168504/friends-meeting-house-cemetery?utm_source=openai)) The cemetery is documented in local historical resources as the Quaker graveyard adjoining the meeting house, while an earlier Friends burial ground in the surrounding area has been reported but its precise location is unknown. ([plainfieldlibrary.info](https://www.plainfieldlibrary.info/pdf/LH/CemeteriesList.pdf?utm_source=openai)) Recorded burials include members of Plainfield-area families from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with transcriptions organized by row and plot number. ([interment.net](https://www.interment.net/data/us/nj/union/plainfield.htm?utm_source=openai)) Genealogical records