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Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery was purchased in 1881 and ready in 1883. The first burial was in April of 1883. The land belonged to Warner and Graves. There one was a holding tomb near the North Farm Road entrance.

Estabrook

John Lord Otis

Warner

John Serex – This is a cenotaph since he is buried in Florence Italy.

William Cordes

Walter Corbin

Julius Perry Maine – Julius donated the sidewalks, curbing, and fountain

Donald Leith

Luther Ashley Martin – Luther donated the gates

Griggs

Willie Holmes Packard

This is a cenotaph for this young child.

Sectional Map of the Cemetery – External Link to Northampton Site

Easthampton Veterans Monuments

Easthampton Veterans Monuments

Civil War

EXTERNAL LINK

World War One

Charles Bromley
Michael C Cameron
Abner Clark
Leo Courtemanche
Louis Cummings
Leonard Dalton
Joseph Dineen
Joseph Gilarowski
Rudolph Gradnitzer
Stephen Guernsey
Vincent Hayewski
James Hourihan
Andrew Lachance

World War Two

KOREA

Vietnam

John Campbell

Company 1 in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment Spanish American War 1898 veteran and also 2nd Calvary at Fort Sheridan Illinois

Olde Center Burial Grounds

There was once an older cemetery in Easthampton and it was across from the Williston Seminary. It started about the 1750s and lasted to about 1865 when it was moved into the Main Street Cemetery (Main Street Cemetery). Most of these are positioned around the holding tomb in the back of that cemetery. However, others are scattered around the cemetery with the other burials. The reason why is that the families were asked if they wanted to have their ancestor buried in a plot and if the family wanted to pay for one then they are found around the cemetery.

Olde Center Burial Grounds is where the Providence Methodist Church and the Old First National Bank of Easthampton is now. It was opposite the original Williston.

East Street Cemetery

The East Street Cemetery is named as such due to the fact that East Street was the nearest street when the cemetery started. The land of the cemetery was donated by Eliakim Clark (FINDAGRAVE). CORBIN DATA

East Street Cemetery

“Gateway and Fence Erected by Jerome A and Margaret M Lyman

In Memory of Elijah Austin Lyman and Sophronia P Lyman 1935″

Sophronia at FINDAGRAVE and Elijah at FINDAGRAVE

Jerome at FINDAGRAVE and Margaret at FINDAGRAVE

If you read through the death dates, you get the sense that all theses people were dead before 1935. Correct but the money that was donated was in the will of the last one Margaret.

First Burial

Parsons Janes is the first burial within this cemetery and does have a gravestone here. FINDAGRAVE He is the son of Jonathan Janes. His gravestone is 2 rows in to the east from the central path and 6 columns along. His footstone is slightly offline.

Samuel Janes

Samuel Janes is buried within the cemetery but has an extra memorial stone outside the cemetery. His gravestone is 5 rows in to the east from the central path and 11 columns along.

Eliakim Clark Gravestone

Eliakim Clark donated the land for this cemetery. He is right next to Samuel Janes.

FINDAGRAVE

Solomon Ferry

FINDAGRAVE – you can see the footstone behind the headstone

Luthar Clark Family Tomb

FINDAGRAVE

Other Stones

Neighborhood

1870 Beers

There once was a road from East Street to this cemetery and hence the name.

Longmeadow First Church of Christ

The first meeting house was in use from 1716 to 1769. This second church is from 1768. It is now at 777 Longmeadow Street. It was moved in 1873 from the Green to its present location. The steeple is 75 feet to its pinnacle.

A chapel was built in 1853 at the site of the present white church. The chapel was often called a parish house and was used both for religious and social reasons. When the church was moved in 1873 the chapel at that point was moved slightly south to accomodate the church.

Their EXTERNAL WEB site. Their HISTORY page.

LOOK at the church in 1907 (exernal link)

Longmeadow First Church of Christ Parsonage

The Longmeadow First Church of Christ Community House at 735 Longmeadow Street is from 1921. The parsonage at that point was moved from the grounds of the community house to alongside the church. The chapel was moved to the backyard of the community house and at that point the chapel became a gymnasium. The town hall took its location in the 1930s and the chapel was taken out. A new parish house was attached to the church in 1949.

Longmeadow Cemetery is behind the church.

1911

1921