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Holy Rosary Cemetery was founded in 1926. The Holy Rosary Church was made in 1914 in Hadley. It was made of the the old Russell Church and replaced in 1973 with a new church. The convent is still there. Before that the people of Hadley attended the Saint Brigid’s Church in Amherst. There was a Saint John the Apostle Church in Hadley formed in 1902. This was an Irish church. It was a mission church of St Brigid’s from 1902 to 1915 and then a church on its own merits since. Cornelius F Donoghue FINDAGRAVE was the first pastor.

Stop 1 – Priests

PRIESTS SECTION

		Hadley pastor
Thomas Gralinski	FINDAGRAVE	no	obituary
Jozef J Sitkowski	FINDAGRAVE	yes 1955 to 1980	obituary
Stanislaw Feresz	FINDAGRAVE	yes 1929 to 1945	obituary
Robert F Slesinski	FINDAGRAVE	still	obituary
Julius Jaworek	FINDAGRAVE		obituary
Jan Tolpa	FINDAGRAVE	assistant	obituary
	FINDAGRAVE		obituary
	FINDAGRAVE		obituary

Stop 2 – Mausoleum

FINDAGRAVE

Stop 3 – Older Burials

Edwin Rychlik D 1925

Stop 4 – Gates

Stop 5 – Military People that Gave their lives for their Country

West Cemetery in located on Triangle Street. It was opened in 1730. The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places. FINDAGRAVE description CORBIN data

African-American Burial Site

Henry Jackson

John D. Thompson

Charles H. Thompson

Christopher Thompson Sr.

Emily Dickinson

It is the burial place of Emily Dickinson (FINDAGRAVE). Also of that of her father Edward.

Edward Hitchcock

Lucius Boltwood

Zephaniah Moore

Oldest Burials

Mary Dickinson

Wildwood Cemetery is off of Strong Street. It is in the garden style. This is a private cemetery that has its own web site. External LINK – and HISTORY page

FINDAGRAVE description of this cemetery

PLAT MAP of the cemetery

Wildwood Cemetery Arboretum Walking Tour – has map and tree species list

The cemetery was started in 1887 and developed from there.

William Austin Dickinson helped greatly with the design.

The house in the cemetery is from 1790 and is the L Dickinson house.

The chapel was donated in 1897 by Fidelia Dickinson. She is in the West Cemetery of Amherst – FINDAGRAVE

North Cemetery was made in 1818. It is located on East Pleasant Street in Amherst. It is still an active cemetery. External LINK to its history.

The land was bought from Martin Baker.

Trees were added in 1846. A well was added in 1873. The cemetery expanded backwards in that year too.

FINDAGRAVE site for the cemetery

CORBIN data for this cemetery LINK

Ezra Ingram

Peter King

Reverend William Hunt

Older Burials

Hawley

South Cemetery is from 1743. It is on Mill Valley Road (route 181). It was called Old Belchertown Cemetery. Also known as the Lone Oak.

Dr Estes Howe

Hillcrest Cemetery is located at the corner of Pine and Bardwell Streets.

FINDAGRAVE

It was formed in 1807.

It is also called Sleeterville Cemetery. Also, Morse, Smith, and Tylerville.

Jenks Cemetery is located at the corner of South Street and South Liberty Street. It lies on private property. 6 members of the Jenks family are buried here.

FINDAGRAVE

Liberty Cemetery was founded in 1801 at the border of Ludlow and Belchertown. The Belchertown section is called the Liberty and the Ludlow section is called the East Cemetery or the Ould Cemetery.

Mount Hope Cemetery was established in 1846. It is located in the center of Belchertown. Some of the burials in this cemetery are from other cemeteries in the Quabbin area that were moved here in the 1930s.

Sophronia Packard – LINK

FINDAGRAVE

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.

Donald Everett Vitkus