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Saint Brigid’s Cemetery

Saint Brigid’s Cemetery of Easthampton is also called the Immaculate Conception Cemetery and the Everett Street Cemetery.

Read about the history of the Immaculate Conception Church.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus Church used this cemetery from 1909 to 1924 at which time it made its own cemetery. Read about that CHURCH and its CEMETERY.

The Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Church used this cemetery during all of its history. Read about that CHURCH. The church was formed in 1906.

MAP of the cemetery.

stop 1 – Gates, Signs, and Layout of the Cemetery

stop 2 – Priests Circle number 1

Walshe obituary

Jeremiah Twomey – his burial was at first at the Immaculate Conception Churchyard and then he was moved here.

Father Lenz is here and can be found at FINDAGRAVE.

stop 3 – Babies

stop 4 – Paupers

M J D born 1862 and died 1921. This could be a Martin Dalton or a Mary Dept both of whom died in 1921 in Easthampton. Both buried in this cemetery and both about this age. Neither has a gravestone in the cemetery.

stop 5 – Ethnic Groups

Joseph Philbert Auger – FINDAGRAVE – veteran of the American Civil War

stop 6 – Priests Circle number 2

This pastor area is for P F Doyle. FINDAGRAVE

stop 7 – Interesting Monuments

1936 photo of the cemetery

Once the cemetery had elevated plots. These have all been removed and good that they did since they would have had enough water erosion to knock the gravestones over.

stop 8 – Neighborhood

Across the street is the Everett Street Village. These homes were workers’ homes for the mill workers.

Easthampton

Upper Mill Pond

Lower Mill Pond

Nashawanuck Pond

Wilton Brook Pond

Rubber Thread Pond

Williston Seminary

Easthampton Veterans Monuments

Easthampton Library

Easthampton Town Hall

CHURCHES

Immaculate Conception Church Campus

Notre Dame du Bon Conseil Church Campus

Sacred Heart Church

German Evangelical Lutheran Church

Methodist Episcopal Church

Saint Philip’s Episcopal Church

Payson Congregational

First Congregational Church of Easthampton

Trinity Lutheran Church

CEMETERIES

Brookside Cemetery

East Street Cemetery

Main Street Cemetery

Saint Brigids Cemetery

Saint Stanislaus Cemetery

Burial Grounds of Easthampton throughout its History

OTHER

Nonotuck Park

Mount Tom Range

Immaculate Conception Church Campus (Easthampton)

Immaculate Conception Church Campus (Easthampton) is found on Adams Street. The first church was a wooden church that was erected in 1868 at the same site as the present church. A new church was completed in 1883 but it burned before it could be used. In 1884 this present church was made (dedicated August 15 1884). This church is in the neo-Gothic style.

The Immaculate Conception Church was a mission church of the Northampton church since 1868 under P V Moyce (pastor in Northampton).

The first pastor was Jeremiah J Twomey. FINDAGRAVE – his original burial location was alongside the Immaculate Conception Church but when it was built into a larger masonry church, the burial had to be moved.

Second pastor was Richard Donovan.

Third pastor was Richard Walshe FINDAGRAVE – The cemetery was established in about 1884 on Everett Street by Walshe. He was the pastor from 1878 to 1914 – 36 years.

Michael Ahern was pastor in 1920

Patrick Doyle was pastor in 1930 – FINDAGRAVE

At 21 Adams Street is the convent for the nuns. It was a home at first (1870s build) but Immaculate Conception purchased it. They owned it from 1915 to the late 1980s. The order of nuns that worked in the school here was the Sisters of Saint Joseph.

At 33 Adams Street is the rectory of the priests. It was built at some point in the late 1800s.

The parish is now called Our Lady of the Valley since it is a joining of many churches in town. This happened in 2010 with the joining of Notre Dame du Bon Conseil (Pleasant Street) and Sacred Heart of Jesus (Franklin Street) with the Immaculate Conception Church.

stop 1 – Immaculate Conception Rectory

stop 2 – Immaculate Conception Church

stop 3 – Immaculate Conception Convent

stop 4 – Immaculate Conception School

The Immaculate Conception School was started in 1909.

Sanborn maps analysis:

1889 – the 1884 map has nothing

1895 map A and map B

1902 map

1910 map

1916 map

Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Campus

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Church Campus in West Springfield was founded in 1869. It is located on Pine Street. The parish of Saint Thomas the Apostle started as a mission church of the Holy Name Church of Chicopee. The Holy Name Parish was the first Catholic parish in Western Massachusetts.

HISTORY of the old church

The old church was destroyed in 1905. The present was built in 1906 at 63 Pine Street. It is clearly in the neo-Gothic style. The first pastor of the church from its inception in 1877 was William Phelan. Another former pastor is James Tyrrell. FINDAGRAVE – pastor from Dec 7 1905 to Oct 22 1925. A list of pastors can be found at the external LINK.

Patrick HealyFINDAGRAVEpastor of the mission church
Patrick PhelanFINDAGRAVEfirst pastor
John J O’KeefeFINDAGRAVE
Thomas O’KeefeFINDAGRAVE
John F GriffinFINDAGRAVE
James TyrrellFINDAGRAVE
James DolanFINDAGRAVE
Henry HackettFINDAGRAVE
Paul O’DayFINDAGRAVE
John CainFINDAGRAVE
Richard RunteFINDAGRAVE
Kenneth TatroFINDAGRAVE
John SheafferFINDAGRAVE

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Rectory is at 47 Pine Street.

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Rectory Carriage House is nearby.

The Saint Thomas the Apostle School is at 75 Pine Street. It is from about 1961.

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Hall is at 87 Pine Street and is from about 1962. This is the former convent for the nuns that taught at the school. The first convent was from 1931.

The Saint Thomas the Apostle Cemetery is from about 1870 also. It is located nearby at Kings Highway.

Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery – Beth El Chapel is from 1927.

Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery is from 1900.

Rohan Park and its Neighborhood

1911 Richards map

Rohan Park is in the location of the former Kirtland School. This school was at first called the New Oakdale School. It was opened in January of 1909. Sure it was built in 1908 but in 1916 it already received an addition to its back. (the school was at 298 Sargeant Street)

The park is defined by parallel streets – Sargeant and West Franklin Streets and then Chapman and Saint Jerome Avenues. It closed in 1991 and was razed in 1997.

The school is named after Edwin Kirtland a former superintendent of the Holyoke school system. The school was an elementary school and a neighborhood school. PHOTO – Kirtland died in 1910 and the school soon after was changed into his name.

Edwin Kirtland obituary part A

Edwin Kirtland obituary part B

The park is named after Robert Rohan Sr who was a state representative for Holyoke for 18 years. (1975 to 1993) FINDAGRAVE Robert Rohan’s father was Patrick Rohan who was a driver for the fire chief of Holyoke.

The John Stacy Apartments are from 1910 and are at 320-322 Sargeant Street. These were built as the Oakdale neighborhood developed into a trolley neighborhood. In 1892 the Holyoke Streetcar trolley line went up Sargeant Street. See Line G at this LINK.

In 1914 the apartment complex at 321 Sargeant Street across the street from the Stacey were built. The trolley allowed mill workers to move out of the downtown area.

Down Pinehurst Road is the house of James Newton. This Colonial Revival house was built in 1909 on the massive homestead that Newton had in the Oakdale area. Newton lived at 159 Chestnut Street for many years and then in 1909 moved to the Pinehurst. Read about his original HOME. Then read about the many addresses of this Pinehurst mansion HERE. Lastly, read about his MILL. He would have this beautiful mansion built at 21 and 25 Pinehurst Road.

The house has an address of 25 and the carriage house has an address of 21 but both point to Northampton Street since there was once a private driveway from the west. Thus the front of the house is now in the backyard.

Across the street in 1911 the James Bertram Newton house was built at 6 Pinehurst Road. This house had many addresses through the years including a Franklin Street address. James Bertram Newton was the son of James Hale Newton and would live in this second Newton house on Pinehurst Street. FINDAGRAVE

At 243-245 Sargeant Street is the Skinner Workers House. William Skinner had his manager living in this house. The house is from 1892. Around 1917 Robert Inglis a baker had changed this into a bakery. The bakery was at 408 High Street in 1916 but moved here. This was the home for Robert Inglis (245 Sargeant). The bakery was Inglis and Oliver.

1874 area map of Holyoke

Sanborn map

1915 map

1949 map A and map B

1956 map A and map B

Saint Mary’s Cemetery

Saint Mary’s Cemetery most likely formed in 1862.

MAP of the cemetery (external link)

Story about the church. LINK

Chapel

Priests Circle

Patrick Dowd – 1951 – FINDAGRAVE

Vincent Puidokas – 1980 – FINDAGRAVE

pastor of St Casimir’s Church 1934 to 1977 – ordained May 25 1929

George Fitzgerald – 1929 – FINDAGRAVE

Sanborn – none

Babies Section in the Cemetery and the Paupers Section

South Amherst Cemetery

The South Amherst Cemetery is between South East Street and Middle Street in Amherst. The land was purchased in 1818. External LINK to its history page. In 1846 trees were added.

Moody Family

David Moody sold this land to the town so they could add a cemetery.

FINDAGRAVE

Oldest Burials

Neighborhood Burials

Jonathan Dickinson – FINDAGRAVE

Elisha Smith – FINDAGRAVE

Hiram Allen – FINDAGRAVE

Charles Edwin Smith

Holding Tomb

Merrick

Modern Burials

Sanborn map – none