Mary Lou, Just because you had an extra word of "email" in this address, it says you're not a subscriber. We all no better than that. I have placed this email address in the "Accept List" so that if you post again with this address, it should come straight through. I'm envious of your treking through Cambridge! Later...Nancy List Admin -----Original Message----- From: Mary Sackett [mailto:mlsackett@mail.team-national.com] Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:41 PM To: Sackett-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} Where was Simon Sackett of Cambridge buried? I have been wondering if anyone knows were Simon Sackett of Cambridge, MA was buried. I am visiting my brother "Jack" Sackett in Cambridge this week. While walking between Central Square in Cambridge and Harvard Square, we stopped in at the Cambridge Historical Commission to see what they knew. We spoke with Charles M. Sullivan, the Exec. Director of the CHC. He looked up what he could, but there appears to be no record of those first burials. He did tell us that most of the earliest burials were at a burial ground outside the village near Hawthorne and Brattle Streets (near where the Longfellow House now stands). Wolves kept digging up the graves there, so later on this cemetery was abandoned after moving some of the remains to the "Old Burial Grounds" at the corner of Garden St. and Massachusetts Ave. He said there are no death or burial records for that time. The earliest headstones were in the 1690's. We also walked down the street where Simon & Isabell Sackett lived.