Cemetery
St. Tarcsius Cemetery, Framingham
Holy Cross, 175 Broadway, Malden, MA Tel: (781)-322-6300
Archives of the Archdiocese of Boston 2121 Commonwealth Ave.,
Brighton, MA 01235
Cemetery Department
16 Lowell
Street
Reading
01867 Tel :(781)-942-9086
Charles Lawn Memorial Park,
Charles Street,
Reading
Forest
Glen Cemetery
Forest Glen Road,
Reading
Laurel Hill Cemetery,
Lowell Street,
Reading
Wood End Cemetery,
Franklin Street, Reading
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Holy Cross Cem. Malden
Ma.
Information on a grave Owner: John
Sullivan Purchase Date 05/24/1890 Address: 14 Porter Street
Cambridge Date of Burial: 05/25/1890 Location: Sec-SWA Pth-24 Grv-40
West DD1
The other Sullivans are as follows Timothy Date of
burial: 03/10/1891 Dennis Date of burial: 05/27/1894 Catherine Date
of Burial 07/24/1915
Joseph Viera (1860 - 1904)
Alfred Viera (October 1896 - November 1897)
They are both at 47 North Maple Avenue in Grave 31W, which, according to the
map provided to me by the cemetery office, is right across from where Oak
Avenue connects in with N. Maple Avenue.
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Lake Grove, Holliston
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"The Cambridge of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Six, .... a picture
of The City and its Industries Fifty years after its Incorporation" Done by
Divers Hands 1896
There is a good chapter on how the cemeteries in Cambridge were
developed. I'll briefly summarize what is said, and will try to post more
later:
"Burial-Places in Cambridge ... As early as 1634-35, one John Pratt
was granted two acres of land, described as situated 'By the old Burying Place
without the common pales.' This deed indicates the first land used for burials,
which was located, as nearly as can be ascertained, on the northerly corner of
the present Ash and Brattle streets, outside of the stockade which was erected
in 1632. ...... This burial-place was discontinued when the present ancient
ground on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street was set apart
for burials, and ordered 'paled in' early in 1635-36. One hundred years later,
1735, the town, with the assistance of the college, built a substantial stone
wall in the front, on 'Menotomy Road,' at a cost of £150. ..... This wall was
removed some forty years since, and a wooden fence built, which in turn was
taken away, and in 1893 the present substantial iron fence erected .... This
'God's Acre,' as it is often called, containts the dust of many of the most
eminent persons in Massachusetts; the early ministers of the town ...early
presidents of Harvard College, ....the first settlers and propreitors, ......
It is much to be regretted that so many graves remain unmarked, and equally so
that the names of the tenants of many costly tombs re unknown by the very
imperfect registration, or want of registration, in the town records. ....
Several of the substantial above-ground monuments had tablets inserted with
names thereon, which have been broken out and lost, and only a blank aperture
remains. This was caused largely by the scarcity of lead in the Revolution,
when the lead in which the tablets were embedded was removed for bullet-making,
at the same time that the old church building nearby was desecrated. ..... In
1870, the city erected a simple but appropriate monument to mark the place of
burial of a few of the Cambridge Minutemen, killed April 19, 1775. On the
occasion of its dedication ... Rev. Dr. McKenzie delivered a very interesting
and suggestive address. He said most eloquently that it was pleasant for us to
remember that our domain was wider then than now, and with a worthy pride we
claim the glory of Menotomy for the praise of Cambridge. Arlington may guard
their dust, Cambridge will overleap the narrow brook and claim them for their
own, and let the 19th of April, 1775, hereafter be known, as it always should
have been, as the day of the battle of Lexington and Concord, and Cambridge.
More men were killed and wounded within the then limits of Cambridge than in
all the other towns. ..... In searching in 1870, to find the place of burial
preparatory to erecting this monument, were made along the northerly line of
the grounds, and several skulls were found with bullet holes, showing where
some of our killed at Bunker Hill were buried; ... In the year 1845, Mrs.
William T. Harris published a very useful book of epitaphs from this old
ground, 'from the earliest date to the year 1800.' In the years succeeding
1800, with a few exceptions, the names only, on the monuments.. are given. ...
In 1885 the City Council placed this ancient burial-ground in charge of the
Board of Cemetery Commissioners. By their direction it was thoroughly
renovated, ornamental trees and shrubs were planted, the gravestones righted
and otherwise put in a condition suitably becoming the resting-place of so many
of our honored dead. About the year 1811, with the continued growth of East
Cambridge and Cambridgeport, the old ground had become crowded, and 'more than
once' entirely filled; then an urgent call was made for another burial-place.
Two and one-fourth acres of ground were purchased on Broadway, at the corner of
Norfolk Street. This was used for nearly a half-century, .. until the year
1854, when the present cemetery on Coolidge Avenue was laid out under the
direction of the committee appointed by the city government. The services of
consecration were held on the premises November 1, 1854, and this beautiful
spot was sacredly set apart for its new purpose. ... who aptly said in
reference to the place: 'Its locality, .. its seclusion from the great
thoroughfares of life, make it a spot preeminently adapted to the end for which
it has been chosen. .... The original purchase contained about twenty-five
acres. Since then, additions of land have been made on the northern boundary,
and by further purchase of the Winchester estate on the south, so that, today,
the whole area is more than sixty acres. The Broadway ground was disused in
1865, ...'City of Cambridge is hereby authorized, at the expense of the city,
to remove the remains of the dead from the burial ground ... .. to the
Cambridge cemetery ..... Said ground shall be surrounded by suitable
enclosures, and shall forever remain unused for a public street, unoccupied by
any building, and kept open as a public park. ..... Hope this is of interest !
Betty (near Lowell, MA)
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Subject: Bancroft tombstones at Groton, Mass. Source: Epitaphs from
the Old Burial Ground, Groton, MA by Dr. Samuel A. Green, 1878
http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm The full book of inscription (Groton)
are at my website - book is downloadable.
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To: MAMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Burial listing for Byrnes at St. Stephen Cemetery
I would like listing of Byrnes surname that buried in St. Stephen Cemetery in
Framingham.
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