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	Harwich  Massachusetts

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Harwich Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     I would like to thank Bob Carlson for his help in preparing this page - much of the information here was provided by or verified by Bob or his web site.   His Cape Cod Gravestones web site is the best online resource for Cape Cod graveyard research, and one that every Cape Cod researcher should visit frequently.

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of Harwich 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.   Below these paragraphs is a locator map of the town - place the mouse cursor over a sector to highlight it, and click to bring up a sector map showing the cemetery locations in that part of the town.   Any gravestone transcriptions online also have links.   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.

 

Bank St. Burial Ground
Bank St.
Harwich, MA

Location:   Exact location not yet determined.

Note:   No stones are visible.

Location:   East side of Depot Rd. north of Main St. (Rte. 28).

Location:   Exact location not yet determined.

Note:   No stones are visible.

Location:   Behind Christ Church Episcopal, southeast corner of the intersection of Main St. (Rte. 28) and Harbor Rd.

Location:   Northwest corner of the intersection of Cemetery Ave. and Rte. 137.

Location:   Northwest corner of the intersection of Main St. (Rte. 39) and Pleasant Lake Ave. (Rte. 124).

Location:   North side of Orleans Rd. (Rte. 39), West of Glenwood Dr. and about 300 feet east of the water tower.

Location:   West side of Nathan Walker Rd., south of Spruce Rd. and west of Hawksnest Pond.

For records contact:   Holy Trinity Rectory, Earle Rd., West Harwich, MA 508-432-4000.

Location:   West side of Pleasant Lake Ave. (Rte. 124) across from Harwood Ave.

Location:   Off Main St. at the end of Island Pond Rd.

Location:   Old Brewster Rd. off of the north side of Main St. (formerly Kelley St.), about 1/2 mile west of the intersection with Great Western Rd.

Location:   Main St., on the west slope of Kildee Hill - exact location yet to be determined.

Location:   1 Church St. next to the Harwich United Methodist Church.

For records contact:   Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, 90 Forest St., Harwich Port, MA; 508-430-7531.

Location:   Between South St. and Forest St.

Location:   Southwest corner of the intersection of corner North Main and Depot Sts.

Location:   North side of Queen Anne Rd., across from Pleasant Park Cir.

Location:   North side of Pine Grove Rd..

Location:   East side of Bell's Neck Rd., north of Smith St.

Location:   North side of Chatham Rd., across from Deer Hole Rd.

Location:   On private property between the west side of Chase St. and the Herring River.

Location:   In the woods east of Lothrop Ave., north of Main St. (Rte. 28) and northeast of Holy Trinity Parish Church.

   Burton Nathaniel Derrick, Cemetery Inscriptions of Dennis (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993)

   Bob Carlson's Cape Cod Gravestones web site is the best online resource for Cape Cod graveyard research.   It holds abstracts of 17th, 18th and 19th century gravestones in the old Cape cemeteries, along with other valuable information about graveyards and gravestone carvers and a number of gravestone photographs.   Note that these are not literal transcriptions - they are abstracts of the information found on the gravestones.   Harwich cemeteries abstracted there are:

• Baptist Church Cemetery
• Evergreen Cemetery
• First Congregational Church Cemetery
• Hawksnest Pond Cemetery
• Island Pond Cemetery
• Kelley Cemetery
• Methodist Church Cemetery
• Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
• North Harwich Cemetery
• Old Methodist Cemetery
• Pine Grove Cemetery
• Smith Family Cemetery
• South Harwich Cemetery
• Wixon-Chase Family Cemetery
• Isolated Burial Sites including Harding Ryder Gravesite, Kildee Hill Cemetery, Smith Family Cemetery, Tripp Family Cemetery

   Among the many series of gravestone transcriptions published in Mayflower Descendant are several short articles about Harwich cemeteries.   These abstracts, made early in the 20th century, include all burials prior to 1850 or 1851, with a few of later date.   Time has taken its toll on some of these stones, and some epitaphs are no longer legible.   These records of the inscriptions as they existed nearly a century ago are therefore a valuable resource for Harwich researchers.   Note that these are not literal transcriptions - they are abstracts of the information found on the gravestones.   Harwich cemeteries abstracted there are:

• First Congregational Church Cemetery
• Harding Ryder Gravesite
• Island Pond Cemetery
• Methodist Church Cemetery
• North Harwich Cemetery
• Old Methodist Cemetery