On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:22:56 -0700 "Karen & Steve Riley" <cajah@worldnet.att.net> writes: > Adelaide Willett died in Brockton around 1900 and is buried in a > cemetery > there. I'm not sure how many there are there...or which one she is > buried > in. I am certain it's Brockton though. > > Adelaide's husband Frank Willett died aound 1945 aged 88 years. He > is also > buried in the same cemetery. > > Can anyone tell us how we can find out when they died and which > cemetery > they are buried in? Is there an index in Brockton somewhere? Karen and Steve - The City Clerk would hold the death records: http://www.brocktonmass.com/clerk.htm Brockton City Hall 45 School St. Brockton, MA 02301 508-580-7114 Fax: 508-580-7104 Hours: Mon. - Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Without a precise year of death, though, they might not be willing to look for a death record. I believe that the City Clerk's office now uses microfilm or some other storage medium for death records from the early 1900s, as the original city death registers from that period are now at the Brockton Public Library. The death records from that period would indicate place of burial. I was born in Brockton and last visited cemeteries there last fall. Offhand I can think of 13 cemeteries there. We can eliminate the oldest cemeteries from initial consideration - few burials took place in those in the 20th century. Four of the cemeteries I know of are religious. Let's put those aside for now - they are Calvary Cemetery and Saint Patrick's Cemetery (Roman Catholic), and Agudas Achim / Chevra Thilim Cemetery and Plymouth Rock Cemetery (Jewish). There are four cemeteries I would think most likely. At the top of the list is the largest cemetery in the Brockton, the city-owned Melrose Cemetery: Melrose Cemetery 88 North Pearl St. Brockton, MA 02401-1708 508-580-7833 A second possibility is: Union Cemetery 327 Centre St. Brockton, MA 02402-2735 The city took over operation of this cemetery a few years ago - contact the Melrose Cemetery office listed above. A third is: Ashland Cemetery (aka North End Cemetery) East Ashland St. Brockton, MA And a fourth is: Coweeset Cemetery South Pearl St. Brockton, MA In the late 1990s Ashland was overgrown and locked up. It is possible that the city now maintains Ashland and Coweeset. I will try to obtain additional information about both and get back to you. Dale H. Cook USGenWeb Plymouth County MA Towns http://www.rootsweb.com/~macbrock/sites.html