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 SmithFINDAGRAVE
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

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