Lower Village Cemetery
Also known as Old Cemetery
Stow, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
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Get directions Intersection of Great Rd. and Pompsitticut St.
Stow, Massachusetts 01775 United StatesCoordinates: 42.43240, -71.48384 - www.stow-ma.gov/cemetery-committee
- 978-461-1403
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In it are buried the Rev. John Gardner, his wife, and successor Johnathan Newell, and also the reported regicide William Goffe. Town report in 1850 says Jacob Soper gave additional land to the cemetery, John Fubush partly fenced it in and T. Walcott built the gate and hearse house.
In 1923 Cyrus Whitney gave a portion of land to the cemetery to make it more regular in shape and also gave a metal gate and stone fence on Great Road.
There are approximately 200 headstones. The earliest death date is 1711.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as STW.802 Lower Village Cemetery.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 Old Cemetery at "Stow Lower Village" in the "Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."
In it are buried the Rev. John Gardner, his wife, and successor Johnathan Newell, and also the reported regicide William Goffe. Town report in 1850 says Jacob Soper gave additional land to the cemetery, John Fubush partly fenced it in and T. Walcott built the gate and hearse house.
In 1923 Cyrus Whitney gave a portion of land to the cemetery to make it more regular in shape and also gave a metal gate and stone fence on Great Road.
There are approximately 200 headstones. The earliest death date is 1711.
The Massachusetts Historical Commission refers to this cemetery in MACRIS as STW.802 Lower Village Cemetery.
This cemetery is referred to as GR1 Old Cemetery at "Stow Lower Village" in the "Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849."
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