Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery is on Turkey Hill Road at the edge of the Belchertown State School property and was their burial grounds. The first burial at this institutional cemetery was on July 21 1925 for a Eva Landry who had died 3 days earlier.
The death of George LaFoe at the state school might have precipitated the new cemetery.
There do exist earlier burials at the institution that are not noted on the plaque at the cemetery.
See the John Lee burial of May of 1925
See the Gertrude Sutton burial of May of 1925
Earlier burials were at the South Cemetery in Belchertown. See the Gertrude Benson burial of March of 1925.
and the Robert Tulloch burial of April 1925
and the John Scott burial
In Memory of Our Friends Who Have Gone to Their Rest Before Us.
His mother died in Worcester and was buried in the older Hillside Cemetery there. Thus it is very unlikely the burial number 132 at this cemetery is the mother of Albert Warner. What really has happened is that Celia her burial number of 132 has been moved to the Warner Pine Grove Memorial Cemetery in Belchertown from the Hillside West Cemetery in Shrewsbury as a symbolic gesture.
