Pelham Hill Cemetery

Pelham Hill Cemetery or what is also known as the Pelham Center Cemetery is from 1739. It is at the northwest corner of Amherst Road and Daniel Shays Highway (Route 202). This cemetery that has tombs called wolf stones which are rock gravestones that are shaped like flat stones that protected recent burials from wolves. Also, some gravestones and wall stones were moved from the highway area to the back of the burial site. Pelham Town Hall moved here in the early 1800s. The map below show their arrangement in the late 1800s.

This cemetery has some interesting burials:

personnotesburialFindagrave
Margaret Hood1758link
Martha Conkey1748link
Alexander Zuilllink
Robert Abercrombiefirst ministerFINDAGRAVE
Richard Crouch GrahamFINDAGRAVE

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