Glendale Cemetery, Bloomfield

Cemetery in Essex County, New Jersey, US

Glendale Cemetery is a cemetery located in Bloomfield and Belleville townships in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Notable burials

Mule Suttles (1901-1966) Negro league baseball player who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.^[1]^[2]
Sarah Vaughan (1924-1990), jazz singer.^[3]^[4]
Albert L. Vreeland (1901-1975), represented New Jersey's 11th congressional district from 1939-1943.^[5]
Yaki Kadafi (1977-1996), American rapper and a founder and member of Outlawz and Dramacydal. He was a close friend of American rapper Tupac Shakur. The two rappers considered themselves “brothers” even though they did not share any blood ties, but they grow up together. Kadafi and Tupac were best friends until their respective deaths in 1996. Kadafi was 19 years old when he died.
Donald M. Payne (1934-2012), a US Congressman, served New Jersey's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives from 1989 until his death.^[6]
Donald Payne Jr (1958-2024), US Congressman, son of Donald Payne.

^ Coffin, Phil. "The Black Babe", The New York Times, March 12, 2006. Accessed July 18, 2011. "But 40 years after his death, Suttles's headstone in a cemetery in Bloomfield does not even bear his name.... Suttles is buried in an open, low-lying section of Glendale Cemetery, near the confluence of Bloomfield, Belleville and Nutley. The name of his wife, Lucille, is engraved on the headstone over the plot they share, with only her year of birth and the words In God's Care; the rest remains blank."
^ George "Mule" Suttles, Find A Grave. Accessed August 22, 2007.
^ Scaduto, Anthony. "A Final Farewll To Sarah Vaughan", Newsday, April 10, 1990. Accessed July 18, 2011. "Two white horses, bedecked with black plumes over their ears, pulled the hearse a little over three miles to Glendale Cemetery in nearby Bloomfield."
^ Sarah Vaughan, Find A Grave. Accessed August 22, 2007.
^ Albert Lincoln Vreeland, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 22, 2007.
^ "Find a Grave". Find a Grave. Retrieved 11 May 2019.