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Kingston Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

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

     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.

 

Evergreen Cemetery (1854)
Evergreen St., Kingston, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of Kingston as G.R.2.

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

Location:   Between Evergreen and Green Sts.

Location:   Northwest corner of Main and Green Sts., next to the First Congregational Parish Church.

For records contact:   Sisters of Divine Providence Convent, 363 Bishop's Hwy., Kingston, MA 02364   781-585-7707.

Location:   North side of Parting Ways Rd., west of Sacred Heart High School.

For records contact:   St. Joseph's Rectory, 272 Main St., Kingston, MA 02364   781-585-6372.

Location:   East side of Elm St. between Brook St. and Pond Rd.

Old Burying Ground — D. W. Holmes, "Inscriptions Copied from the Burying Ground at Kingston, Mass." (New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 10 [1856]:55-56).   Contains literal transcriptions of some of the oldest gravestones in the cemetery.

Old Burying Ground — Thomas Bradford Drew, transcriber, "Death Records from the Ancient Burial Ground at Kingston, Mass." (The Mayflower Descendant, 7 [1905]:20-28, 82-90, 167-172, 221-225).   Contains abstracts of transcriptions of gravestones dated through 1860.

Charles M. Thatcher, Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts (Middleborough, MA: Middleborough Public Library, 1995). Thanks to the Library this book is downloadable or viewable as a large (> 24 meg) PDF file. It contains over 16,000 transcriptions of gravestones up to the mid-1800s, from 214 cemeteries located in 15 Plymouth and Bristol County towns.