Tag: Robbins Burial Ground
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Monmouth County History: Origins of the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area
By Thomas K. Robbins The Robbins Burial Ground in Upper Freehold Township has been discovered again and again over its 300-year existence. Abandoned, overgrown and forgotten describe its current state. Occasionally a news story is published which renews interest in it. A headline in the 1966 Asbury Park Press read “Hunter Finds ‘Lincoln’ Family Grave”…
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Writer continues research on old burial ground in Upper Freehold Township
By Thomas K. Robbins The publication of Ida Tarbell’s “In the Footsteps of the Lincolns” in 1924 generated renewed interest in the Robbins Burial Ground in Upper Freehold Township and in Deborah Lincoln, who was President Abraham Lincoln’s great-grand aunt. This may have been the reason for Dr. Edward McCue Bodine to declare he owned…
