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East Bridgewater Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of East Bridgewater 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.   Any gravestone transcriptions online also have links.   At the bottom of the page is a seperate section listing all online and published 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 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.

 

Beaver Cemetery (1809)
Summer and Belmont Sts., East Bridgewater, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of East Bridgewater as G.R.6.

Photograph Copyright © 2004-2010 by Dale H. Cook
A high-resolution version of this photo (111k) is available.

Street Map
Topographic map from Microsoft Research Maps

Location:   Intersection of Summer and Belmont Sts.

Location:   North side of Central St. at the intersection of Plymouth St., across from Town Hall.

Location:   South side of East St. about 1/4 mile east of Bedford St. (Rt. 18).

Location:   Northeast corner of the intersection of Pond St. and Hudson St., just east of the East Bridgewater town line.

Note:   Although this site is now in Halifax, near the East Bridgewater town line, it is listed in Vital Records of East Bridgewater and Latham's Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater under East Bridgewater.   Arthur Richardson reported that around 1980 the tomb could still be seen.   The front was open and accessible.   A fallen square granite lintel stone lay in front, face down, with the Hudson name engraved on it.   Arthur also reported that by about 2000 only a small mound was visible.   During a 2004 visit I was unable to locate this site.

For records contact:   Northville Cemetery Corp., 160 Pine St., East Bridgewater MA, 02333.

Location:   South side of Oak St. (Rt. 14) east of Washington St.   There is a narrow entrance road flanked by stone posts - look carefully for it.

Location:   Private property on south side of Pond St., east of Ousamequin Pines Rd., where No. 713 Pond St. is now located.

Note:   Richard Rockwell of Hanover grew up near this cemetery.   He reports that a house was built on the property in 1977, and the headstones were removed to put in a lawn.   He also recalls that some headstones bore the surnames Osborn and Sampson.

Location:   South side of Union St., just west of the East Bridgewater town line.

From Rt. 18 coming from the north:   Approximately 6 tenths of a mile from the East Bridgewater / Whitman town line turn right at traffic lights onto Highland St.   Follow to the end turning left onto Elm St.   Follow to the end, being careful as there are two forks in the road.   At the first, 30 yards from the stop sign, bear left.   At the second fork, about 1/4 mile ahead, bear right.   At the end of Elm St. turn right onto North Central St., follow North Central St. 1/4 mile taking a slight left.   This is a dangerous intersection and you must yield the right of way to the traffic entering from your right!   Go about 1/2 mile and merge onto West Union St.   Go over the railroad bridge and the graveyard will be on the left about 100 yards.   See note in the paragraph above.

From Rt. 18 coming from the south:   At the traffic lights in the center of East Bridgewater take a slight left hand turn onto Central St.   Follow Central St. (which turns into North Central) to the bad intersection mentioned in the paragrah above and follow as in that paragraph.

Note:   Although this cemetery is in West Bridgewater, near the East Bridgewater town line, it is listed in Vital Records of East Bridgewater and in Latham's Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater under East Bridgewater.

Location:   North side of Pleasant St. west of N. Central St., behind the Union Congregational Church

Location:   South side of Harvard St., East Bridgewater, about 3/4 mile east of N. Bedford St. (Rt. 18).

Williams Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Illustrated with Plans and Views (Bridgewater: Henry T. Pratt, printer, 1882; repr. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1976; Middleborough, MA, 1986).   This book has been transcribed by Arthur Richardson and Dale H. Cook.

      The East Bridgewater part of the book includes one major cemetery and four minor cemeteries:

• Old Graveyard, East Bridgewater (old part of Central Cemetery), transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Hill Family Cemetery, East Bridgewater, transcribed by Dale H. Cook.
• Hudson Tomb, Halifax, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Thayer Cemetery, West Bridgewater, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Whitman Family Cemetery, East Bridgewater, transcribed by Dale H. Cook.

Other East Bridgewater cemetery transcriptions online:

• Whitman Family Cemetery, transcribed by Gaytha Wallace.   Note that this is a 1989 transcription by Gaytha, made directly from the gravestones and differing somewhat from the epitaphs in Latham's Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater.

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 15 Plymouth and Bristol County towns.