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Springfield Cemetery

The Springfield Cemetery has their own web site. EXTERNAL It includes their history, some gravestones, and book to buy.

Josiah Holland – FINDAGRAVE

Pelatiah Bliss – FINDAGRAVE

MAP (at OpenStreetmap)

CHAPEL

OFFICE

Holding Tomb

The first tomb was from 1841 and expanded in 1856. A new one was made in 1873.

Methodist Cemetery

A child of Samuel McNary was buried here on the 12th of December 1825. This was the first burial in the Methodist Cemetery. The Union Street Methodist Episcopal Society sold this cemetery in 1858.

Hampton Ponds State Park

Lamberts Beach at Hampton Ponds State Park

Congregation Kodimoh Cemetery

Harold Jack Weber and Isadore Goldstick

Nathan Genden

Beth El Cemetery has its temple in Springfield. LINK The Beth El Cemetery is in West Springfield. The cemetery started in 1915. The chapel within the cemetery is from 1927.

FINDAGRAVE

FINDAGRAVE

Samuel Hoyt was the leader of the Highland Park Associates. Hoyt at FINDAGRAVE. This was a real estate group that was based on North Pleasant Street at the SE corner of Yale Street. From 1920 to 1925, his company was at 85 Dartmouth Street.

In 1923 he started up another company called Hoyt Construction. In later life, he would be the real estate manager at People’s Bank and at Mechanics Bank.

homes	starts	ends	notes
Brooklyn, New York	1900		census
365 Appleton Street, Holyoke	1910		census but not in directory
84 Pleasant Street	1911	1911
25 Stanford Street	1912	1913
37 Dartmouth Street	1914	1918
2 Taylor Street	1918	1920
11 Yale Street	1921	1922
2 Cleveland Street	1923	1924	near Harvard
57 Park Slope Road	1925	1925
210 Pleasant Street	1926	1926
37 Stratford Street	1927	1927
Stony Point, Rockland County, New York	1928	1933	removed to NY
8 Brooks Street (now called O’Connor Avenue)	1934	1954	from census, plus 1934-1946 and 1955-6 directories

Saint Aloysius Cemetery (Springfield) is from 1876. FINDAGRAVE It is at 1273 Berkshire Avenue. It is also called Saint Louis Gonzaga Cemetery.

The church is from 1874 and the school is from 1893. STORY

STORY about this saint.

Gates

Pastors

Ethnic Groups

Baby Section

Potters Field

Moved

Saint Michael’s Cemetery is from 1871.

stop 0 – Introduction

stop 1 – Chapel

stop 2 – Mausoleums

stop 3 – Sisters of Saint Joseph

stop 4 – Bishop Beavan

stop 5 – Military Deaths

stop 6 – Mausoleum and more

Stop 7 – Rev J Alfred Lane

FINDAGRAVE

7A – Oldest Burials

John J Devereux

and his son James both in 1871

8 – Interesting Stones

9 – Babies Section

Dr Paul Nathan

2025 Holyoke Massachusetts area guided tours and presentations — FREE and OPEN to the public. [Except for the listed private tours and presentations.] Keep checking back since information will change. Presented by Robert Comeau. Sign up at Eventbrite for most of these tours. The Holyoke Preservation Trust is the promoter for most of the events and oftentimes the host too.

2025 tours and presentations:

EARLIER this year:

Precious Blood Church Fire of 1875 (Holyoke)

Elmwood Cemetery tour (Holyoke)

South Hadley Canal – a presentation, a tour, and a display (South Hadley)

Plainville Cemetery (Hadley)

Precious Blood Church (Holyoke) and Precious Blood Cemetery (South Hadley)

The Six Navigational Canals of the Connecticut River (South Hadley)

Sacred Heart Church (Springfield)

Southampton Center Cemetery (Southampton)

Holyoke Canal System Walking Tour (Holyoke)

The Six Power Canals of the Chicopee River (Chicopee)

Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery (Belchertown)

The Catholic Churches of Chicopee (Chicopee)

Canals in the Connecticut River Valley

Ashleyville Cemetery (West Springfield)

Saint Anthony of Padua Church (Chicopee)

Brookside Cemetery (Easthampton)

Chicopee Center Canal (Chicopee)

Rural Cemetery (Belchertown)

Island Pond Cemetery (Ludlow)

Who Were the Militiamen from Ireland Parish? (Holyoke) – (see Revolutionary War Veterans in Holyoke)

East Street Cemetery (Chicopee)

Burial Grounds of Southampton throughout its History (Southampton)

Cherry Lane Cemetery (Springfield)

East Street Cemetery (Easthampton)

Lake Vale Cemetery (Belchertown)

United Congregational Church of Holyoke (Holyoke)

Dufresne Park – A History and Nature Walk into its Woods (Granby)

North Amherst Cemetery (Amherst)

Fuller Cemetery (Ludlow)

Main Street Cemetery (Easthampton)

Green Lawn Cemetery (East Longmeadow)

A House in Holyoke through Time – The Lewis Smith Homestead – (Holyoke)

The Springfield Blanket Company – part of series called A Mill in Holyoke through Time – (Holyoke)

Catholic Cemeteries of Springfield – Burial Grounds of Springfield throughout its History

From 1947 to 1961 it is owned by Joseph Pelczarski and his wife Mary. They would convert the two room school house into a two family home. Henry J Baker Jr and his wife Fredericka B were tenants were tenants from 1947 to 1948. He worked at the Union Coal and Wood Company. Joseph Pelczarski was a musician who played saxophone. In 1950 Hart-Lester Allen widow of Joseph Allen was a new tenant. The Allen story is HERE. The book that the Gionfriddo family wrote about here is HERE. Pelczarski in 1955 lists himself as a salesman at the Epstein Furniture Store.

Pelczarski would grow up at 2 Oliver Street. His father would work at the Lyman Mills as a weaver. In the late 1920s they would move to Front Street. In about 1930 Joseph Pelczarski would marry a woman with the name of Lucille Irving. In 1931, they would live at 7 Wolcott Street and he would work as an upholsterer at 737 Dwight Street and as a musician. In 1932, they would live at 105 Walnut Street and he would work as an upholsterer at 108 High Street and as a musician. The couple would disappear from 1933 to 1944. Finally, in 1945 he would show up in Holyoke again newly remarried after a divorce. His new wife Mary C and he live at 1966 Northampton Street for two years.