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

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. These are actually reburials from the moved cemeteries of Pelham and the Quabbin towns.

Story about the NAME change.

John Brainard – FINDAGRAVE

The William Gaskell gravestone has his death as 1822.

Robert Page

Jonathan Pratt – FINDAGRAVE

Booth family

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 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:

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

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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