
St. Mary's Cemetery - Canton, MA USA
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NorStar
N 42° 10.586 W 071° 07.895
19T E 323951 N 4671564
St. Mary's Cemetery is a an open and flat cemetery that has a high concentration of people buried of Irish descent.
Waymark Code: WMEXTA
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/19/2012
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In Canton, on the east side of Washington Street and Randolph Street is St. Mary's Cemetery.
This cemetery is on flat terrain and the roads are laid out squarely. At the time, I thought that there was the one lot at the corner. An electronic map showed a second portion to the east, which was confirmed by a view on Google Earth. The pictures that I have are all on the corner lot.
There are many monuments of varying designs and dimensions. Some are tall, thin monuments of one or a few names, others are family plots. There is a web site that has a map of plots (corner lot only). The site lists 1219 plots - not sure if these are all occupied or if some of them are prepurchased. The cemetery sign at the corner has a date of 1847.
Source:
The Irish Ancestral Research Association (Old St. Mary's Cemetery, Canton, MA):
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