The Old Springfield Burial Ground was an ancient burial ground near the center of Springfield. it was moved in the 1840s to the back of Springfield Cemetery. It held the old burial of Springfield and its precincts. West Springfield, Holyoke, Chicopee, and more used this cemetery.
John Riley of Holyoke, Japhet Chapin of Chicopee, and more are here.
The Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery is in Chicopee Massachusetts. It was purchased from Chicopee on June 26 1897 from a portion of the land of Fairview Cemetery. It belongs to the Holy Mother of the Rosary Church which is a Polish National Church in Chicopee.
1 -Gates and Sign
Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery has nice masonry gates.
2 – Bishop
Walenty Peter Gawrychowski – FINDAGRAVE
Gawrychowski became bishop of the eastern district of the USA on August 25 1925.
Most likely this memorial stone was above the grave of Gawrychowski but the stone was moved to a position lower down the hill and an altar shaped memorial stone was placed above the body of Gawrychowski in 1961.
3 – Memorial
altar consecrated as a token of gratitude to Fr Walenty Gawrychowski and the first founders of the parish of Our Lady of the Rosary in December 1896 - true work
4 – WW2 Death
5 – Old Stones
6 – Fairview Cemetery
The Holy Rosary Cemetery has been carved out of the older Fairview Cemetery. This cemetery is easy to view from the fence at the top of the hill. LINK
7 – Modern Stones
8 – Holy Mother of the Rosary Polish National Church
The parish was found December 23 1896. The first pastor came January 11 1897 from Buffalo New York. This was Valentine Gawrychowski. The dedication of the church was October 12 1897.
Walenty Peter Gawrychowski – FINDAGRAVE
Fairview Cemetery in Chicopee Massachusetts was made in 1870 as a lawn style cemetery to replace the older Protestant cemeteries in Chicopee that were filling up quickly. It first name was New Cemetery but in 1890 the name was changed to Fairview Cemetery. From the mid 1870s to 1890 the name Town Cemetery was used. It is not located in the Fairview neighborhood of Chicopee but rather its name came from its scenic design. The land was bought from Bemis, Van Horn, Paine, and Conway families and two of those listed families had retained a section of the cemetery for their burial plots.
One of the first caretakers of the cemetery was Hiram Downing.
Stop A – Gates of the Cemetery
Melzar Mosman a world famous sculptor made these gates. Mosman was from Chicopee. The money for the gates were bequested from the will of George Stearns (FINDAGRAVE).
stop B – Tomb of the Cemetery
The land was purchased in 1869 and work started at once. The first burial was in 1870.
stop C – Chapel of the Cemetery
Honors Sarah Spaulding a benefactor of the city.
The Spaulding burials are NOT in the chapel but rather their gravestone is about 50 feet to the south. FINDAGRAVE
stop D – Robinson
stop E – Bellamy
stop F – zinc gravestone
Cenotaph to George Bonner who died in Georgia in a train crash.
stop G – Lyman Van Horn stone
The land for the cemetery was purchased from the Bemis, Van Horn, Paine, and Conway families.
stop H – Lydia Hyde the first burial
Lydia Hyde (FINDAGRAVE) was the first true burial in this cemetery. After she died March 13 1870 she was interred in this cemetery. There seem to be about 100 earlier burials but this is deceptive since many people were reburied here from other cemeteries in Chicopee after this new cemetery was made. Also people would add their ancestors to gravestones since that deceased person might not have an inscription in the other cemetery.
stop I – Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery
The Holy Mother of the Rosary Cemetery is in Chicopee Massachusetts. It was purchased from Chicopee on June 26 1897 from a portion of the land of Fairview Cemetery. It belongs to the Holy Mother of the Rosary Church which is a Polish National Church in Chicopee.
stop J – cemetery design
Fairview Cemetery is a rural cemetery design. A map of its interior streets is HERE.
The Pine Grove Cemetery of Chicopee and South Hadley Massachusetts started about 1788 as a Baptist Cemetery. John Pendleton would be buried there and then many after him. It was at first a churchyard cemetery without a true churchyard since services were in a home. It was a South Hadley cemetery from 1788 to 1809 but when the county line was set, the line between South Hadley and Chicopee (then northern part of Springfield) was moved by about 300 yards. The cemetery was now in what would become Chicopee.
In 1888 the remainder of the burials of Pine Grove Cemetery were moved to the Chicopee Street Burial Ground. This was 23 bodies. (Thus the cemetery lasted 100 years) There was also a movement of bodies in the 1850s from the Pine Grove to the South Hadley Village Cemetery. After 1888 many people in northern Chicopee would be buried in the South Hadley Village Cemetery and not in any Chicopee cemetery. The South Hadley Village Cemetery had been started by the Lamb family of South Hadley Falls. Until 1838 when that cemetery started, the people of the Falls used the Pine Grove Cemetery as a burial ground. Daniel Lamb might have been buried there.
In the South Hadley Falls Cemetery, any burial before 1839 is most likely from the Pine Grove. It does also have some burials from Cooley Chapin Cemetery and the Old South Hadley Cemetery (the Bowdoin and Bardwell are from there).
The East Street Cemetery of Chicopee Massachusetts started out being called the Chicopee Falls Cemetery but by 1925 was being called the East Street Cemetery. It started in 1825.
A fine resource for this cemetery is the “East Street Cemetery Records, Chicopee Falls” found in a typescript format at the Woods Museum of Springfield History.
Mitchel Paul died at New Bern North Carolina due to wounds during the Civil War.
Potters Fields are to the middle right and then at the angle section to the right.
Baby section is to the middle left and at the angle section left.
This Belcher sequence has some moved gravestones from another cemetery.
The Chicopee Street Burial Ground is the oldest cemetery within the borders of the city of Chicopee. Any burials before this cemetery was made had to use the cemeteries that are within the borders of Springfield.
Chester Chapin’s father was buried in the mausoleum – see FINDAGRAVE. The mausoleum has Tiffany mosaics and bronze doors from the Mosman foundry.
Within this cemetery are 23 burials taken from the Pine Grove Cemetery of Chicopee and South Hadley.
The Chicopee Street Schoolhouse from 1846 is across the street.
The First Congregational Church (1824) and Parsonage (1829) are a half mile to the north. The Reverend John McKinstry home is on McKinstry Avenue.
priests’ stones as individual pictures
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| Firmin Finn |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Stanislaw S Orlemanski |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Lawrence Cyman |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Julian Wozniak |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Jozef Kordas |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Leon Walencewicz |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Marion Tolczyk |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Callistus Szpara |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Prosper Skiba |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Peter Hajna |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Bruno Parzych |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Peter Damian Fehlner |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Edward Kurdziel |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Lucjan Krolikowski |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Henry Madigan |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Henry Karwel |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Gilbert Wdzieczny |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Jan Tokarz |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Eligius Kozak | FINDAGRAVE | |
| Seraphin Stachowicz |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Herbert Obijiski |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Thomas Gwozdz |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Andrew Skiba |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Paschal Rys |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Walter Mruk |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Andrew Skiba |  | FINDAGRAVE |
Nuns of Saint Stanislaus Cemetery
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi – EXTERNAL LINK and their HISTORY
| Mary Norberta Petrucci |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Lorenzina DiIorio |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Noemi Ledda |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Mary D’Angelo |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Faustyna Brzozowska |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Agatonia Weron |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Ryta Berdechowski |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Assumpta Czech |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Agnes Okarmus |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Justine Maziarz |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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| Eufemia Marunczak |  | FINDAGRAVE |
| Jolenta Kalinowska |  | FINDAGRAVE |
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The cemetery belongs to the Basilica of Saint Stanislaus in Chicopee.
The first burial was that of Stanislawa Krzanowski on May 22 1924.
Stanislawa Bednarz May 23 1924
Stanley Klaus May 30 1924
Charles Galuszka – June 9 1924
There are many cenotaphs in the cemetery.
Peter Stanislaus Cyran is actually buried in the Calvary Cemetery of Chicopee.
and Emily Galuszka is actually buried in the Saint Patrick Cemetery of Chicopee.
Entrance
Jesus Statue
Stations of the Cross Garden
Priest Circle
The Lawrence Cyman stone is actually a cenotaph since this pastor is buried in New York State at FINDAGRAVE.
priests’ stones as individual pictures
Chapel
This cemetery chapel is from 1937.
Nuns of Saint Stanislaus Cemetery
Jacqueline Krafchuk – FINDAGRAVE
nuns stones as individual pictures
Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi – EXTERNAL LINK and their HISTORY
Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph – EXTERNAL LINK
Memorial Stones
Fraternal Order of the Holy Rosary
Polish Veterans
Third Order of Saint Francis
Special
Signs
Benches and Posts
Notice that all the sections are named after saints. This is a format used in this cemetery since 1986.
Baby Section
Saint Lawrence Statue
This statue is that of Saint Lawrence. The statue was located at the former Franciscan Fathers’ Retreat House in the town of Becket.
Statue
This cemetery is for all burials. It also serves the Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Springfield. Also for Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in Chicopee.
Holyoke Catholic High School Cross Country and Track 1990
