German Evangelical Lutheran Church is located on Chapel Street in Easthampton Massachusetts. It existed from at least the 1900s to the 1930s.
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Holy Rosary Cemetery
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
Stop 3 – Older Burials
Stop 4 – Gates
Stop 5 – Military People that Gave their lives for their Country
West Cemetery
Amherst Community History Mural – External LINK
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. In 1833 the cemetery was expanded via land purchase. In 1870 it expanded again. In 1887 it expanded to the south. John Scott was buried in 1737 and is the oldest burial with a stone.
The older burials are on an east to west orientation. Pre-Revolutionary War burials would have had the head of the person pointing to the east and then headstone inscription to the east. Post-Revolutionary War burials would have had the head of the person pointing to the west and then headstone inscription to the west. Footstones would have existed in this cemetery but use ended about 1840. Because potters fields were in the back left for adults and back right for babies, there are two potters fields – one in the east and another in the west. The poor Caucasian people would be in these potter fields without a headstone since the family had no money for neither the burial nor the stones. Also, pre-Civil War, Afro-Americans were not allowed to be buried in the main body of a cemetery and had to be buried in the potter field section. These families could afford both the burials and the stones and hence the burials of Afro-Americans in the potter fields usually included a headstone. Thus it is not correct to state that the West Cemetery has a Afro-American section but I will continue to use that phrase since it is in use in this cemetery with a marker. The gravestones from the period from 1730 to 1776 have been spun around 180 degrees to conform to the orientation of the other gravestones. This would have occurred during the American Cemetery Beautification Movement from the 1880s to the 1910s.
Burnham Gates 1954
Gaylord Gates 1908
African-American Burial Site
See External LINK for an interesting story abou the AfroAmericans of Amherst.
Emily Dickinson
It is the burial place of Emily Dickinson (FINDAGRAVE). Also of that of her father Edward. The first house that Emily lived in was just outside the Gaylord Gate and faced onto East Pleasant Street. See it at this external LINK.
Edward Hitchcock
Lucius Boltwood
Zephaniah Moore
Footstones
Oldest Burials
Wildwood Cemetery
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.
EXTERNAL VIDEO on the small connection to Olmsted
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 That is the year she died so most likely it was donated via probate. Her husband is Joseph Dickinson Jr and her father in law is Joseph Dickinson Sr. When this Joseph Sr married Sarah Hunt in about 1795 they must have had the house built.
The land to the south of the cemetery belongs to the Wildwood Cemetery and you can walk on it. The land to the northeast of the cemetery also belongs to the Wildwood and it is held as conservation land.
Watch a video and then a podcast on the cemetery.
North Cemetery
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
Peter King
Reverend William Hunt
Older Burials
Hawley
South Cemetery
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.
Hillcrest Cemetery
Hillcrest Cemetery is located at the corner of Pine and Bardwell Streets.
It was formed in 1807.
It is also called Sleeterville Cemetery. Also, Morse, Smith, and Tylerville.
Jenks Cemetery
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.
Liberty Cemetery
Liberty Cemetery was founded in 1801 at the border of Ludlow and Belchertown. It is part of twin cemeteries – one in each town. The Belchertown section of the cemetery is called the Liberty Cemetery and the Ludlow section is called the East Cemetery or the Ould Cemetery. See East Ould Cemetery for more on that cemetery.
Mount Hope 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
Nathaniel Chickering – LINK
Also when this cemetery was opened up it was viewed as a more beautiful cemetery than others in town and so many families had deceased members moved into this cemetery from others in town.
