West Burial Ground is from 1771. It is 200 feet off of North Valley Road off of Amherst Road. It is called the Cook-Johnson Cemetery also. It is at Coordinates: 42.38895, -72.42797. All burials are before 1908 except 5 more added after that. External STORY
Bobbinville Burying Ground was moved here in 1938.
The West Burial Ground has its stones pointing inscription to the east for its pre-1831 burials which is the reverse of that which it shoould be. This is since the Bobbinville Cemetery was moved to here in 1938 and its gravestones placed here to face to the internal road as all moved cemeteries are. This is to the east. The gravestones already in the West must have been spun around 180 degrees at that point. This is typical in burial grounds that have been radically changed.
Look at the gravestone for Thomas Dick. FINDAGRAVE – Pre-Revolutionary War the images on stones were more graphic. There are 4 Pre-Revolutionary War gravestones in this cemetery and these are in the correct direction of headstones facing inscriptions to the east. Their footstones are gone.
Adam Johnson FINDAGRAVE gave $5000 to the Amherst Chapel. Adennis Cook FINDAGRAVE is the only Cook gravestone left in this cemetery. There is only one Johnson.
Joel Rhodes Burial Site is in Pelham at the juncture of Shays Highway and Shutesbury Road. He died of small pox and was buried in the back southeast corner of the family farm in Pelham. Gravestone is still there but he has a cenotaph at this cemetery.
Ebenezer Gray – The copper in his Revolutionary War plaque is killing any biological material that adheres to the stone.
Elizabeth Walker Grout FINDAGRAVE was 8 years old at death and she is in the back of the cemetery.
There is a double footstone in the cemetery.
Nancy Gray Park – link – There once was a metal post fence around her grave.
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