The Abel I. Smith Burial Ground (also spelled Able I. Smith Burial Ground) was a family burial plot in Hudson County, New Jersey.LocationThe land owned by Abel Smith stretched far; in a 1908 edition of The New York Times, the farm is said to have been bisected by Secaucus Road, and "between the Paterson Plank Road on the north, the Penn Horn Creek on the East, the lands of S. Jacobs on the south, and the old Secaucus racetrack to the west."The burial ground lay in a grove at one of the highest spots in Secaucus, obscured by high grass and trees, overlooking the expanse of the meadows and into the Hackensack River. It was bordered on the west side by County Road and the grounds of a Mental Disease Hospital that is no longer in existence, currently located near the intersection of Secaucus Road and County Road. The Abel I. Smith Burial Ground faces the Hudson Palisades on the west and the marshes of Secaucus on the east.Along with the Van Buskirk Family Burial Ground, the Sandford Family Burial Ground and others, the Abel I. Smith Burial Ground is one of a few recognized family burial grounds in Hudson County.HistoryIn 1733, Abel Smith and his wife Deborah moved from Great Neck to Secaucus, where he bought a large tract of land and constructed a large mansion. The first burial on the grounds was that of Abel Smith himself, who died in 1755.
