Acushnet  Massachusetts  Cemeteries

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Acushnet Cemeteries

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Acushnet 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 notes about the cemetery and a brief description of its location. Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town showing the cemetery locations. Any gravestone transcriptions online also have links. At the bottom of the page is a separate section listing all online, published and manuscript gravestone transcriptions that I have found for these cemeteries.

     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 may indicate 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.

     I would like to thank John Sterling and Cherry Bamberg for sharing the Bristol Cemeteries Database of Bristol County gravestone records. Most of the information in the notes for each cemetery has been drawn from that database and from Cherry's files that were used to compile the database.

 

Acushnet Cemetery (1711)
[Precinct Cemetery, Queen Anne Cemetery]
91 Main St., Acushnet, MA
Abbreviated in the Bristol Cemeteries Database as AC001
Transcriptions in Howland and Memorial Record, with the latter online at Jane Devlin's Web Site

Street Map
Topographic Map from TerraServer USA

For records contact:   Acushnet Cemetery Corporation, 91 Main St., Acushnet, MA 02743; Phone 508-995-1888.

Location:   91 Main St., east of the head of Buzzards Bay.

Notes:   This, the largest cemetery in Acushnet, contains 1650 burials and 1000 inscriptions. Nearly 300 of the gravestones are from the 18th century.

Location:   West side of North Main St. south of Robinson Rd.

Notes:   Now maintained by the town of Acushnet. When the town took over the cemetery at the end of the 19th century more than 50 burials were removed to the new cemetery across the street.

Location:   North side of Wing Rd. across from John St.

Notes:   Located at the site of the first Friends' (Quaker) Meeting House.

Location:   West side of North Main St. just south of Quaker La.

Notes:   Located behind the second Friends' (Quaker) Meeting House.

Location:   East side of North Main St. south of Robinson Rd.

Notes:   The earliest gravestones are those of more than 50 burials removed from the Ancient Long Plain Cemetery in 1894.

Location:   East side of Nyes La. south of Taber St.

Location:   South side of Peckham Rd. between Morningside Ave. and Bow Dr.

Notes:   Originally the burial ground of the Peckham family, it has since been enlarged and opened to the public.

Location:   East side of Main St. between Wing Rd. and Russell St.

The Bristol Cemeteries Database Project currently contains some 27,000 Bristol County gravestone inscriptions collected by volunteers using the Association for Gravestone Studies (AGS) Gravestone Database Standard Program. Records are first entered from published sources and manuscripts. Those records are then verified and corrected by trained volunteers during field visits, and additional information about those gravestones and their cemeteries is added. This project is still in its earliest stages. I am currently working on putting this database online. Volunteers are needed to enter records found in books, libraries, and historical and genealogical societies. Additional volunteers are needed who will receive training in AGS methods and standards for transcriptions, and who will then correct and update the database during cemetery visits. This project is being undertaken in accordance with AGS standards in order to create a complete and accurate record of Bristol County gravestone inscriptions for future researchers and historians. If you would like to volunteer for this project please send me email.

Acushnet Cemetery Memorial Record (New York: C. Hyllstead, Jr., Printer, 1881). Online transcription at Jane Devlin's Web Site.

Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet (New Bedford MA: By the Author, 1907).

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995).