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Abington Cemeteries

     Special thanks to Pamela Whiting, Reference Librarian at the Dyer Memorial Library, and to Sharon Orcutt Peters, Chair of the Abington Historical Commission, for providing information on the Abington cemeteries.

     In places you will see references to the "Totman Manuscript."   This is The Cemeteries of Abington by Ida R. Totman of Rockland.   She prepared her manuscript for the 1912 bicentennial of Abington, and it describes the cemeteries of that town and of the daughter towns of Whitman and Rockland.   The manuscript is at the Dyer Memorial Library in Abington.

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Abington is an ongoing effort, and this page will be revised as needed.   If you have cemetery information or gravestone transcriptions that you would like to share please send me email.

     Where I have been able to determine it, the records repository for a cemetery is indicated.   In the entries for the individual cemeteries, if one has its own web site or a portion of a web site the cemetery name provides a link to that site.   When the location of a cemetery is known there are links to street and topographic maps to help you find it, as well as a brief description of the location and, perhaps, direction for reaching it.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town showing the cemetery locations.

     When a cemetery has had more than one name during its history the first name listed is the one by which it is usually known today, and alternative names are listed in square brackets.   In some cases a cemetery has been abandoned, its burials have been removed to another cemetery, or its location has been lost.   In those cases the name indicates that it is a cemetery site, meaning that no gravestones are to be found there.   The year in parenthesis next to a cemetery name is my best estimate of the year in which that cemetery was established.   In some cases the year is mentioned in town records, a town history or some other source.   In other cases it is the year of the oldest gravestone for which I have found a record.

 

Adams Street Burying Ground Site
Adams St., Abington, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Abington as G.R.16.

Street Map
Topographic Map from TerraServer USA

Location:   In curve on northwest side of Adams St. at junction with Pearl and Birch Sts.

Note:   Burials were removed to Mt. Vernon Cemetery.

Location:   West side of Washington St., north of house numbered 174, toward Streame’s river.

Location:   East side of Hancock St., near house now numbered 759.

Totman Manuscript:   Gravestones were removed to West Abington (Hillside) Cemetery, but the remains were not.

Location:   West side of Bedford St. near Harwood’s corner (intersection of Bedford St. and North Ave.).

Totman Manuscript:   Burials were removed to Mt. Vernon Cemetery about 1865.

Location:   About 200-300 feet east of end of paving of Sylvan Court (south of Lincoln Street), on property of Mr. Sven Leivo.

Totman Manuscript:   Located on the Gould-Mitchell homestead.   The Goulds were descendants of Metacomet (King Phillip).

Location:   East side of Bedford St., south of North Ave. - exact location still to be determined.

Location:   On the hill at Island Grove Park, west of Park Ave.

Location:   Mt. Vernon Ave., north of Central St., between the Shumatuscacant River and the railroad tracks.   South entrance from Central St. at head of Island Grove Pond.   North entrance from Pearl St. between houses numbered 43 and 49.   Old west entrance from Washington St., north of house numbered 907.

Location:   Southeast corner of Washington and Chapel Sts.

Location:   East side of Washington St., south of Summer St., behind house numbered 325.

Location:   About 1/4 mile south of Chestnut St., on property belonging to the owners of 263 Chestnut St.   The only remaining gravestone is on a knoll between Beaver Brook and Deacon's Brook and near where both enter the northeastern end of Cleveland Pond.

Note:   The only remaining gravestone is that of French and Indian and Revolutionary War veteran Joseph Richards, Jr. (17-Dec-1727 - 11-Nov-1785).

Location:   West of Hancock St., behind house now numbered 780.

Location:   Northwest corner of High and Green Sts.

Location:   Northeast side of Randolph St. (Rt. 139), just south of the Weymouth town line.