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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 Cemetery – Henry Cemetery – and the Jewish Community Association of Amherst Cemetery

Village Hill Cemetery

Village Hill Cemetery is on Village Hill Road in Williamsburg Massachusetts.

Its prior cemetery is also on this road and it found at the internal link.

The cemetery was found in 1874 but has many older burials.

Three Quabbin reburials are in this cemetery: Warren Stimpson (d 1886), Mary Stimpson (d 1908), and William Warren (d 1919) all from the Pine Grove Cemetery of Dana. They are the only Quabbin burials in this town.

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. 58 of these are actually reburials from the moved cemeteries of Pelham and the Quabbin towns. The Boynton family is moved to here. Findagrave The others are from families that wanted to move from other cemeteries of the town into this one due to it being a nicer place. This is common for such newer town cemeteries.

Story about the NAME change.

John Brainard – FINDAGRAVE

The William Gaskell gravestone has his death as 1822.

Robert Page

Jonathan Pratt – FINDAGRAVE

Booth family

Reburials from Quabbin area:

personformer cemeteryfamilyFINDAGRAVE
Mehitable SmithSarah, WilliamFINDAGRAVE
Infant SmithFINDAGRAVE
Job SmithFINDAGRAVE
Edwin MooreFINDAGRAVE
Milo FieldWoodlawnFINDAGRAVE
Clara DwightWoodlawnFINDAGRAVE
Marilla DavisPelham HollowFINDAGRAVE
Samuel DavisEmma DavisFINDAGRAVE
Henry DavisFINDAGRAVE
Mary ConkeyDavid, Patty, LeviFINDAGRAVE
Emory BoyntonFINDAGRAVE
Edwin AyersFINDAGRAVE
Harrison HorrFINDAGRAVE
Anne StoneMary, George, William, Georgia, infant, SarahFINDAGRAVE
Emma StoneFINDAGRAVE
Clark StoneFINDAGRAVE
Martha MooreFINDAGRAVE
Nellie MooreFINDAGRAVE
Almira MooreFINDAGRAVE
Harold HubbardFINDAGRAVE
Addison HoldenFINDAGRAVE
FINDAGRAVE

Pelham Hill Cemetery

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 wolfstones which are rock gravestones that are shaped like flat stones that protected recent burials from wolves. There is a rare raw wolfstone near the front rows of the cemetery. This type might have been used to cover many people’s graves by moving it around from burial to burial. There is also a family which has three or four wolfstones in a row. One has inscriptions.

There were two movements of the town hall (Pelham Town Hall) backwards from the road. In 1839 the Pelham Congregational Church was made. Thus with two structures now in place, there was a lack of sufficient parking space for the carriages and the horses that would have brought visitors to the church and town hall. The hall was moved both to set the structure back from the line of the church to show that they were for different functions (religious and secular) and to give the church more prominence. But there was the second reason to add space in front to have room for carriages. This move was about 40 feet back. In 1845 there was a second move backwards. This 30 foot move only six years after the first move was for another set of reasons. Sure they wanted to have even more room in front but there was now open space in the cemetery. This is the push and pull mechanism that historians write of on all subjects. This was since the dead house was taken out and not replaced. In its stead a holding tomb was built into the Valley Cemetery. This Valley Cemetery was made in 1848 and perhaps the holding tomb was added during the years of construction of the new cemetery from 1846 to 1847. The hearse house (which was alongside the dead house) was also taken out and its function of protecting the hearse was taken over by a room inside the hall. They gained about 70 feet in these two moves. The dead house change was because the 1840s was a time of getting dead houses to be more secure from graverobbers and from wolves. This sequence of the dead house, hearse house, and potters field in the back right corner of the cemetery is typical of most cemeteries.

Some gravestones and wall stones were moved from the highway area to the back of the burial site. These were moved here in the 1930s to allow for the highway to be place here but also since they were in the watershed of the Quabbin. The first four rows were on the down slope and needed to be moved to the back of the cemetery so no molecules from the burial would led to the Quabbin Reservoir.

Scots Irish traditional burials – External LINK – There are about 1000 burials in this cemetery. About 500 of those burials are of the typical Scots Irish form. This tradition of using two stones and no markers is found in the Highlands of Scotland where these people came from.

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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This cemetery has some interesting burials:

personnotesburialFindagrave
Margaret Hood1758link
Martha Conkey1748link
Alexander Zuilllink
Robert Abercrombiefirst ministerFINDAGRAVE
Richard Crouch GrahamFINDAGRAVE

Williamsburg Center Cemetery

Williamsburg Center Cemetery is at 4 Village Hill Road. Take North Street from the center of town, then North Main Street, and then bear left onto Village Hill Road. It is also known as the Old Village Hill Cemetery. It is from about 1771 to 1773. It has a wrough iron fence near the entrance and the terrain drops down from there. As usual for such old cemeteries, it is along an east to west axis with most gravestones’ inscriptions pointing to the west.

Art Works of Hariette Bowdoin

Art Works of Hariette Bowdoin features that works of a person born in South Hadley Massachusetts. She would move to New York City with her family and prosper there as an artist. Some of her works are listed in the grid below. The links carry you to an external web site.

PATREON video

Squire Bowdoin House

about her family – The Lost Grave of South Hadley

art workLINK
Park ViewLINK
Stream LandscapeLINK
Pine Tree and Cottage along a CoastLINK
On the PromenadeLINK
View to a Garden with Trellis and FountainLINK
Forest Landscape with RiverLINK
Country FarmhouseLINK
CottageLINK
Garden Scene with TrellisLINK
Woman with Milk PailsLINK
Long Branch BeachLINK
Spring ForestLINK
Figures on a BridgeLINK
SunriseLINK
Country HomeLINK
Figures by ShoreLINK
Hydrangeas Under PergolaLINK
HollyhocksLINK
BlumenstilllebenLINK
Floral Still LifeLINK
Still Life with Flowers and Porcelain JarLINK
Figures and Nuns on a Village StreetLINK
Flower Market in HollandLINK
On the Canals at VeniceLINK
Venetian CanalLINK
VeniceLINK
New York Street SceneLINK
Winter SceneLINK
Central Park of New York CityLINK
Winter SubwayLINK
Self-PortraitLINK
Young Woman in a ParkLINK
Morning Shadow and SunlightLINK