A child buried in a Phillipsburg wheat field in the 1840s is finally getting a grave marker

A child buried in a Phillipsburg wheat field in the 1840s is finally getting a grave marker

The first person to ever be buried in the place that used to be called Mr. Roseberry’s Wheat Field, before it was built up and became Phillipsburg’s first public cemetery, was a child.

Phillipsburg to Honor Unknown Black Child – NJ Urban News

To mark the conclusion of Black History Month, the Town of Phillipsburg will hold a ceremony this Saturday to memorialize a young life that has remained anonymous for nearly 200 years. The event, scheduled for February 28 at 11 a.m., honors an unknown Black child who was the first person buried at the site that would become the Phillipsburg Cemetery. According to archival records, the child died in 1844 after having “fallen into a sandpit and di…