Pelham Hill Cemetery or what is also known as the Pelham Center Cemetery is from 1739. It is at the northwest corner of Amherst Road and Daniel Shays Highway (Route 202). This cemetery that has tombs called wolf stones which are rock gravestones that are shaped like flat stones that protected recent burials from wolves. Also, some gravestones and wall stones were moved from the highway area to the back of the burial site. Pelham Town Hall moved here in the early 1800s. The map below show their arrangement in the late 1800s.
Scots Irish traditional burials – External LINK
This cemetery has some interesting burials:
| person | notes | burial | Findagrave |
| Margaret Hood | 1758 | link | |
| Martha Conkey | 1748 | link | |
| Alexander Zuill | link | ||
| Robert Abercrombie | first minister | FINDAGRAVE | |
| Richard Crouch Graham | FINDAGRAVE | ||
There is a rare raw wolfstone in the front of the cemetery. This type might have been used to cover many people’s graves by moving it around from burial to burial. It has some level surfaces.
There is a series of three wolfstones in a row for a family in this cemetery. The look is that of a bed. This arrangement would evolve into a crib style with two gravestones with two side stones.
There are some headstone to footstone pairs but they are not correctly pointing outwards from the burials.
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