Notable graves

Betsey Stockton was born into slavery and later became a freed woman, an educator, and a missionary. 

As an enslaved child she lived in the Princeton, New Jersey household of the prominent Stockton family and later with the family of the Reverend Ashbel Green, president of the college that later became Princeton University. Eventually she was formally freed and remained with the family as a domestic servant, and learned to read and write.

In 1822 she traveled with the Stewart family (friends of the Green family) on a missionary trip to the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). She traveled not as a slave or servant but as a fellow missionary. She thereby became the first African American woman to travel overseas as a missionary, and only the second unmarried American woman to do so.

Betsey Stockton taught at a mission school in Hawaii and later at schools in Philadelphia and Princeton. She remained with the Stewart family at least until 1830 and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery alongside the Stewart family.

Her gravestone reads as follows:

Of African blood and born in slavery, she became fitted by education and divine grace for a life of great usefulness. For many years she was a valued missionary at the Sandwich Islands, in the Family of Rev. C. S. Stewart, and afterwards till her death a popular and able principal of Public schools in Philadelphia & Princeton. Honored and beloved by a large circle of Christian Friends.

Read more about Betsey Stockton at these websites:

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsey_Stockton

Princeton University's "Princeton and Slavery":

https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/betsey-stockton#ref-2