Peg asked: > Would anyone know if Ashburnham has an Old Cemetery and a Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery? Or are they one and the same place? > I checked my resources for Worcester County cemeteries and didn't find either one listed. > > I'm trying to find the burial lot for Parley and Harriet McIntire. Parley was a Civil War veteran. > According to David Lambert's 'A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries,' there was an Ashburnham New Cemetery, begun in 1814 on School St. and the Meeting House Hill Burial Ground dating to 1760 located on Hastings Rd. Transcriptions for both cemeteries are located in the NEHGS manuscript collection in Boston. There are no Ashburnham cemeteries earlier than these two. Sandy

There's also the Fairbank and Russel-Burbank Cemeteries in Ashburnham. I haven't been to the Fairbank cemetery so I don't know how big or old it is, but the Russel-Burbank one only has about a dozen or so stones in it and they're from the 1800's. Steve Perkins -----Original Message----- From: sgoodwin [mailto:sgoodwin@massed.net] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:34 PM To: MA-CEMETERIES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MA-CEM] Cemeteries in Ashburnham, Mass. Peg asked: > Would anyone know if Ashburnham has an Old Cemetery and a Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery? Or are they one and the same place? > I checked my resources for Worcester County cemeteries and didn't find either one listed. > > I'm trying to find the burial lot for Parley and Harriet McIntire. Parley was a Civil War veteran. > According to David Lambert's 'A Guide to Massachusetts Cemeteries,' there was an Ashburnham New Cemetery, begun in 1814 on School St. and the Meeting House Hill Burial Ground dating to 1760 located on Hastings Rd. Transcriptions for both cemeteries are located in the NEHGS manuscript collection in Boston. There are no Ashburnham cemeteries earlier than these two. Sandy ==== MA-CEMETERIES Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Massachusetts Cemetery list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to MA-CEMETERIES-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List to MA-CEMETERIES-d-request@rootsweb.com ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237