The family that owns the 257-year-old cemetery abutting the Beau Ridge development in Holmdel, New Jersey has filed a formal complaint with police against the association and its board of directors, accusing them of approving the "desecration" of the family graveyard. Almost 60 tombstones have been removed, with some 10 others stacked in a pile. Calls to the association unveiled a plan to "clean up and refurbish the grave site."
"No one in the Hendricks or Hendrickson family authorized the board of directors of the Beau Ridge Homeowners Association to do anything to the Hendrickson Cemetery," said Dr. Andrew Hendricks, a descendant of Dutch immigrants who settled in Monmouth County 300 years ago.
"No one in the Hendricks or Hendrickson family authorized the board of directors of the Beau Ridge Homeowners Association to do anything to the Hendrickson Cemetery," said Dr. Andrew Hendricks, a descendant of Dutch immigrants who settled in Monmouth County 300 years ago.
You can read more in an article by Michelle Gladden in the Asbury Park Press at http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20109120350
My thanks to Carolyn Thompson for telling me about this sad story.
