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Whitman Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     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 Whitman 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 Whitman 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 is a link to a topographic map 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.

 

Amos Whitmarsh Cemetery
Whitman, MA

Location:   Exact location still to be determined.

For records contact:   781-447-5117

Location:   East side of the intersection of Park Ave. and Essex St.

Location:   Behind 685 Washington St., across from Warren Ave.

Location:   Pine St., west of High St.

Totman Manuscript:   It is said that the Jenkins family had a private cemetery here.   Its location is unknown, and it is not known to which cemetery the stones and remains may have been removed.

Location:   East side of Washington St. between Jenkins Ave. and Robert Ave.

For records contact:   Holy Ghost Church Rectory, 518 Washington St., Whitman, MA 02382   781-447-7630.

Location:   East of Harvard St. at the end of Butternut Lane.

Location:   East side of Franklin St., now the site of Whitman-Hanson Regional High School.

Colebrook Cemetery
Partial transcription of 16 gravestones at Interment.net.