Joel Rhodes Burial Site

Joel Rhodes Burial Site is in Pelham at the juncture of Shays Highway and Shutesbury Road. Died of small pox and buried in the back southeast corner of the family farm in Pelham. Gravestone and burial is still there. “No Release” means that the body was left there and not released to another cemetery.

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But his family has a cenotaph for him in the West Cemetery of Pelham. FINDAGRAVE

Burial Grounds of Shutesbury throughout its History

Burial Grounds of Shutesbury throughout its History

Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

West Cemetery

Henry Cemetery

Pratts Corner Cemetery – Pratts Corner Road

Locks Village Cemetery – Locks Pond Road – made in 1808 near Lake Wyola – to the west of the juncture of Lake Drive

Special Tour of a Grouping of Cemeteries

Three Cemeteries on Leverett Road – West CemeteryHenry Cemetery – and the Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

Valley Cemetery

The Valley Cemetery is also called the North Valley Cemetery and most recently as the Booth Cemetery. It is from 1848. It is at 183 North Valley Road east of the Buffum and Meetinghouse Roads intersection. The cemetery is still a very active one. The town’s holding tomb is in this cemetery.

There are about 80 burials older than the year that the cemetery was made. These are actually reburials from the moved cemeteries of Pelham and the Quabbin towns.

Story about the NAME change.

John Brainard – FINDAGRAVE

The William Gaskell gravestone has his death as 1822.

Robert Page

Jonathan Pratt – FINDAGRAVE

Booth family