Every year we honor General Poor by laying a wreath.

At 10 am on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2026, the Bergen County Historical Society honors the veterans of all wars with a wreath-laying at the grave of General Enoch Poor in the burial ground of the First Dutch Reformed Church on the Green, 42 Court Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Excerpts from chaplain Israel Evans' graveside funeral oration will be read at the ceremony, followed by a tour of the historic cemetery.

General Poor was at the Steenrapie Encampment along Kinderkamack Road when he became very ill and passed.

Historian Kevin Wright found a description: "James Thatcher, a Surgeon in the Continental army, described Brigadier-General Enoch Poor’s burial at Hackensack on September 10, 1780, saying, “No scene can exceed in grandeur and solemnity a military funeral. The weapons of war reversed and embellished with the badges of mourning, the slow and…