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West Bridgewater Cemeteries and Cemetery Transcriptions

     Collecting information about the cemeteries of West Bridgewater 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, 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.

     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.

 

Alger Grave-Yard and Tomb (1801)
South Elm St., West Bridgewater, MA
Abbreviated in Vital Records of West Bridgewater as G.R.4.

Street Map
Topographic map from TerraServer USA

1882 Gravestone Transcriptions

Location:   North side of South Elm St., at the top of Wolf Trap Hill about 2/10 mile east of Lincoln St.

Directions:   Rt. 24 to Rt. 106 East to the first right - Lincoln St.   Drive about 7/10 mile to the intersection of South Elm St. on the left and turn left.   Drive about 2/10 mile to the top of Wolf Trap Hill - the site of the cemetery is on the left.

Note:   Most or all of these graves have been removed to Pine Hill Cemetery.

Location:   East side of South St. south of Southgate Ave.

Location:   North side of Walnut St. at the Easton town line.

Location:   West side of Manley St. just north of the old railroad line.

Location:   Next to the Cochesett Methodist Church on the north side of West Center St. (Rt. 106), just west of Church St. and just east of the Rt. 24 interchange.

Location:   East side of South St., across from Cross St., about 1-1/4 miles south of the Town River.

For Records Contact:   Superintendent, Pine Hill Cemetery Association, PO Box 116, West Bridgewater, MA 02379   Phone: 508-583-5466.

Location:   West side of North Main St., at the intersection of Copeland St.

Directions:   From Rt. 24 take exit for Rt. 106 East, go to the intersection of Rt. 28 about 1-1/2 miles.   Turn left onto Rt. 28 towards Brockton and travel approximately 1 mile.   The Pine Hill Cemetery is on the left about opposite the golf driving range.   (The Powder House Graveyard is on Matfield Street, right across North Main St. from Pine Hill.)

Location:   Off of old West Center St. (Rt. 106) and just west of the Rt. 24 interchange.   From the end of the old street turn down a gravel road along Rt. 24.

Location:   North side of Matfield St., just off of North Main St. (Rt. 28), about 1 mile south of the Brockton line.

Directions:   From Rt. 24 take exit for Rt. 106 East, go to the intersection of Rt. 28 about 1-1/2 miles.   Turn left onto Rt. 28 towards Brockton and travel approximately 1 mile.   Turn right after the golf driving range, opposite Pine Hill Cemetery, onto Matfield St., and the Powder House Cemetery is on the immediate left.

Location:   South side of Union St., just west of the East Bridgewater town line.

From Rt. 18 coming from the north:   Approximately 6 tenths of a mile from the East Bridgewater / Whitman town line turn right at traffic lights onto Highland St.   Follow to the end turning left onto Elm St.   Follow to the end, being careful as there are two forks in the road.   At the first, 30 yards from the stop sign, bear left.   At the second fork, about 1/4 mile ahead, bear right.   At the end of Elm St. turn right onto North Central St., follow North Central St. 1/4 mile taking a slight left.   This is a dangerous intersection and you must yield the right of way to the traffic entering from your right!   Go about 1/2 mile and merge onto West Union St.   Go over the railroad bridge and the graveyard will be on the left about 100 yards.   See note in the paragraph above.

From Rt. 18 coming from the south:   At the traffic lights in the center of East Bridgewater take a slight left hand turn onto Central St.   Follow Central St.   (which turns into North Central) to the bad intersection mentioned in the paragrah above and follow as in that paragraph.

Note:   Although this cemetery is in West Bridgewater, near the East Bridgewater town line, it is listed in Vital Records of East Bridgewater and in Latham's Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater under East Bridgewater.

Williams Latham, Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Illustrated with Plans and Views (Bridgewater: Henry T. Pratt, printer, 1882; repr. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1976; Middleborough, MA, 1986).   This book has been transcribed by Arthur Richardson and Dale H. Cook.

      West Bridgewater cemeteries included are:

• Old Grave-Yard, transcribed by Dale H. Cook.
• Powder House Grave-Yard, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Jerusalem Grave-Yard, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Alger Grave-Yard and Tomb, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.
• Thayer Cemetery, transcribed by Arthur Richardson.

Other West Bridgewater cemetery transcriptions online:

• Jerusalem Graveyard, also known as Howard / Hayward Cemetery, transcribed by Gaytha Wallace.   Note that this is a 1989 transcription by Gaytha, made directly from the gravestones and differing somewhat from the epitaphs in Latham's Epitaphs in Old Bridgewater.