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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.

Cemeteries of 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

LINK

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

Cemeteries of Chicopee

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.

Robert Eddy Bemis

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

see LINK for more

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.

Cemeteries of Chicopee

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.

Cemeteries of Chicopee

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

Lawrence Cyman		FINDAGRAVE
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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
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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Cemeteries of Chicopee

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

Josepha “Josephine” Golen

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

Jan “John” Majewicz

Third Order of Saint Francis

Anna Laskawska

Katarzyna Knapik

Franciszek Grucela

Special

Joseph Michael Radwanski

Michael Lavinski

Stanislaw Szczepucha

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.

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