Seventeenth Century Burials

Around you are some of the earliest burials at Granary Burial Ground. “The Oldest Stone” dated 1667 marked the burial of John Wakefield (ca. 1615-1667). Apparently a frugal relative 36 years later had the back of the stone carved for ...

First Burial in Long Cane Cemetery

In memory of the first person, a young girl whose name is unknown. Buried here about 1760. The story goes that she was visiting the Lesly family and died as a result of injuries sustained while they were making lye ...

Old Burial Hill

1630 - 1930

Established in 1638, one of the oldest graveyards in New England. Site of first meetinghouse. Six hundred Revolutionary heroes and several early pastors were interred at the top of the hill.

Marker is at the intersection of Orne Street ...

King’s Chapel Burial Ground

1630

Left Marker:

Here were buried

Governors of Massachusetts

John Winthrop 1649, John Endicott 1665,

John Leverett 1679, William Shirley 1771,

Lieut. Governors of Massachusetts

William Phillips 1827, Thomas Lindall Winthrop 1841;

Governors of Connecticut

John Winthrop 1676, Fitz-John Winthrop 1707;

Judges of Massachusetts

Wait Still Winthrop 1717, Adam Winthrop 1743,

Oliver ...

Rowley Burial Ground

1630 - 1930

The burial ground set apartat the settlement of the

town of Rowley in 1639. Here

are buried Ezekiel Rogers,

Samuel Phillips, Samuel

Shepard, Edward Payson andJedediah Jewett, the earliest

ministers of the town, and

nearly all the original settlers.

Marker is on Main Street (Alternate ...

McWilliam Park Whale Burial Site

Whales (generally humpback or southern-right) can provide a magnificent spectacle off this coastline during their annual migration south, from September to November.

Many long-time residents of Tuross Head can recall the arrival of a whale on the beach below, in November, ...

Quaker Burial Ground

The following people were buried at the Quaker meeting house graveyard on King Street and were reinterred at this site in 1974.

(Left Column)

John Allen - 1720

Bena Austin - 1735

John Cooper - 1715

Mary Fisher Bayly Crosse ...

John McCaffery Burial Site

John McCaffary was hanged in Kenosha on August 21, 1851, for the murder of his wife and buried here in an unmarked grave. Public outrage over his execution resulted in legislation that abolished the death penalty in Wisconsin on July ...

Confederate Burials

In this cemetery, following the siege and capture of Madrid Bend and Island No. 10, about 75 Confederate dead were interred. Others were buried on the island itself. Channel changes have now joined the island to Missouri.

Marker is on Tennessee ...

Crawford - Capper Burial Site

Samuel Crawford, publisher, attorney,

farmer, and financial agent, served

as Third Governor of Kansas, 1856-1868,

and as head of the 19th Kansas Volunteer

Cavalry, 1868-1869. His wife, Isabel,

the daughter of Enoch Chase, a founder

of Topeka, at age 18 became the youngest

First Lady of Kansas.

Arthur ...