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Cohasset Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Cohasset 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 are links to street and topographic maps to help you find it, as well as a brief description of the location and.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town showing the cemetery locations.    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.

     Special Note - I am switching all of the topographic maps on my genealogical web sites from Microsoft Research Maps to mytopo MapServer.   Ever since Microsoft Research Maps replaced TerraServer visitors have had problems with poor response from the Microsoft servers.   The mytopo MapServer servers are providing fast, reliable response.

 

Beechwood Cemetery (1734)
525 Beechwood St.
Cohasset, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Cohasset as G.R.4.
MACRIS designation COH.800

Photograph used with the permission of Eileen O'Brien (#46779688) of Find A Grave
A high-resolution version of this photo (138k) is available.

Street Map
Topographic Map from mytopo MapServer

Transcriptions in D.A.R manuscript
Transcriptions at Find A Grave

For records contact:   Cohasset Department of Public Works, Cemetery Division, 91 Cedar Street, Cohasset, MA 02025.
   Phone: 781-383-0273 or 781-383-6709; Fax: 781-383-4125.

Location:   North side of Beechwood St., east of Doane St.

Location:   South side of Jerusalem Rd. just east of Windy Hill Rd..

Location:   South side of Cedar St. east of Hull St.

For records contact:   Cohasset Central Cemetery, 44 Ripley Rd., Cohasset, MA 02025.
   Phone: 781-383-1436.

Location:   East side of Joy Place north of North Main St.

Note:   Contains about 500 gravestones in 4.5 acres.

Location:   South of Jerusalem Rd. between Hull St. and Hyde Lane.

For records contact:   Cohasset Department of Public Works, Cemetery Division, 91 Cedar Street, Cohasset, MA 02025.
   Phone: 781-383-0273 or 781-383-6709; Fax: 781-383-4125.

Location:   South side of North Main St. between the Hingham town line and Golf Club Rd.

Inscriptions from the Burial Grounds of Cohasset, Mass. from 1705, the earliest date, to 1877. 1903 manuscript, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston (MS70/COH/1). Contains D.A.R. transcriptions from the Central, Beechwood, Cedar Street and Green Gate cemeteries.