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Cemetery Information - White Cemetery

Number  FR031       MACRIS         Name  White Cemetery       Established  1816

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Location  Keene Rd., .5 mi. from Ann Record Ln.       Town  Freetown       State  MA

VR         GR         Direction  NE       Distance  200       Pole No.         Map         Plat         Lot

Owner  Mrs. Robert Townsend (1978)       Access         Deed Book         Page         Veterans         Sign         Size    x         Acres

Burials  175       Inscriptions         Field Stones         Tombs         Still Exists         Last Seen  1978       Terrain         Enclosure

Gateway         Growth         Oldest  1816       Newest  1978       Condition  G       Vandalism         Topo         Phase 1  Y       Phase 2  N

Comments  Form E by Helen Thomas, Oct. 1978 at MHC. Her note: early burial plot of the James White family (1785-1864) and their neighbors of the Keene Road area. Some earlier fieldstones. In the 1880s Charles M. Thatcher recorded the "White Cemetery in Freetown on Long Plain Road about 2 miles from East Freetown" in his Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts, pp. 67-68. Names of a War of 1812 veteran and three Civil War veterans recorded in History of Freetown, p. 116. Henry B. Worth (HBW) copied eleven names in Some Old Burial Grounds, 1917, p. 12. He called it the White-Keene Burial Ground, on the east of Keene Road, north of the Acushnet-Freetown line. Gravestones for the Keene family were recorded by Mrs. Wendell Presbrey (PRES), Inscriptions from Eight Cemeteries in Bristol County, Massachusetts, DAR, 1987, NEHGS, pp. 116-119. She found a number of earlier stones, including one from 1687.

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